Psalm 38:16 {37:17}
Good News Translation
Don't let my enemies gloat over my distress; don't let them boast about my downfall!

New Revised Standard Version
For I pray, “Only do not let them rejoice over me, those who boast against me when my foot slips.”

Contemporary English Version
I said, "Don't let them laugh or brag when I slip and fall."

New American Bible
For I have said that they would gloat over me, exult over me if I stumble.

Douay-Rheims Bible
For I said: Lest at any time my enemies rejoice over me: and whilst my feet are moved, they speak great things against me.

Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

For I said: Lest at any time my enemies rejoice over me: and whilst my feet are moved, they speak great things against me.

For I said

Psalm 13:3,4 How long shall my enemy be exalted over me? . . .

Psalm 35:24-26 Judge me, O Lord my God according to thy justice, and let them not rejoice over me. . . .

foot

Psalm 94:18 If I said: My foot is moved: thy mercy, O Lord, assisted me.

Deuteronomy 32:35 Revenge is mine, and I will repay them in due time, that their foot may slide: the day of destruction is at hand, and the time makes haste to come.

magnify

Psalm 35:26 Let them blush: and be ashamed together, who rejoice at my evils. Let them be clothed with confusion and shame, who speak great things against me.

Context
Do Not Rebuke Me in Your Anger
15For in thee, O Lord, have I hoped: thou wilt hear me, O Lord my God. 16For I said: Lest at any time my enemies rejoice over me: and whilst my feet are moved, they speak great things against me.17For I am ready for scourges: and my sorrow is continually before me.…
Cross References
Job 19:5
But you set yourselves up against me, and reprove me with my reproaches.

Psalm 13:4
Consider, and hear me, O Lord, my God. Enlighten my eyes, that I never sleep in death:

Psalm 35:19
Let not them that are my enemies wrongfully rejoice over me: who have hated me without cause, and wink with the eyes.

Psalm 35:26
Let them blush: and be ashamed together, who rejoice at my evils. Let them be clothed with confusion and shame, who speak great things against me.

Psalm 94:18
If I said: My foot is moved: thy mercy, O Lord, assisted me.

Psalm 38:15
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