Psalm 71:13 {70:13}
Good News Translation
May those who attack me be defeated and destroyed. May those who try to hurt me be shamed and disgraced.

New Revised Standard Version
Let my accusers be put to shame and consumed; let those who seek to hurt me be covered with scorn and disgrace.

Contemporary English Version
Embarrass and destroy all who want me dead; disgrace and confuse all who want to hurt me.

New American Bible
Bring to a shameful end those who attack me; Cover with contempt and scorn those who seek my ruin.

Douay-Rheims Bible
Let them be confounded and come to nothing that detract my soul; let them be covered with confusion and blame that seek my hurt.

Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

Let them be confounded and come to nothing that detract my soul; let them be covered with confusion and blame that seek my hurt.

Let them be.

Psalm 71:24 Yea and my tongue shall meditate on thy justice all the day; when they shall be confounded and put to shame that seek evils to me.

Psalm 6:10 Let all my enemies be ashamed, and be very much troubled: let them be turned back, and be ashamed very speedily.

Psalm 35:4,26 Let them be confounded and ashamed that seek after my soul. Let them be turned back and be confounded that devise evil against me. . . .

Psalm 40:14,15 Let them be confounded and ashamed together, that seek after my soul to take it away. Let them be turned backward and be ashamed that desire evils to me. . . .

Isaiah 41:11 Behold all that fight against thee shall be confounded and ashamed, they shall be as nothing, and the men shall perish that strive against thee.

Jeremiah 20:11 But the Lord is with me as a strong warrior: therefore they that persecute me shall fall, and shall be weak: they shall be greatly confounded, because they have not understood the everlasting reproach, which never shall be effaced.

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Psalm 109:29 Let them that detract me be clothed with shame: and let them be covered with their confusion as with a double cloak.

Psalm 132:18 His enemies I will clothe with confusion: but upon him shall my sanctification flourish.

1 Peter 5:5 In like manner, ye young men, be subject to the ancients. And do you all insinuate humility one to another: for God resisteth the proud, but to the humble he giveth grace.

Context
In You, O LORD, I Have Taken Refuge
12O God, be not thou far from me: O my God, make haste to my help. 13Let them be confounded and come to nothing that detract my soul; let them be covered with confusion and blame that seek my hurt.14But I will always hope; and will add to all thy praise.…
Cross References
Esther 9:2
And they gathered themselves together in every city, and town, and place, to lay their hands on their enemies, and their persecutors. And no one durst withstand them, for the fear of their power had gone through every people.

Psalm 6:10
Let all my enemies be ashamed, and be very much troubled: let them be turned back, and be ashamed very speedily.

Psalm 35:4
Let them be confounded and ashamed that seek after my soul. Let them be turned back and be confounded that devise evil against me.

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 40:14
Let them be confounded and ashamed together, that seek after my soul to take it away. Let them be turned backward and be ashamed that desire evils to me.

Psalm 71:24
Yea and my tongue shall meditate on thy justice all the day; when they shall be confounded and put to shame that seek evils to me.

Psalm 89:45
Thou hast shortened the days of his time: thou hast covered him with confusion.

Psalm 109:29
Let them that detract me be clothed with shame: and let them be covered with their confusion as with a double cloak.

Psalm 129:5
Let them all be confounded and turned back that hate Sion.

Psalm 71:12
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