Verse (Click for Chapter) New International Version My companion attacks his friends; he violates his covenant. New Living Translation As for my companion, he betrayed his friends; he broke his promises. English Standard Version My companion stretched out his hand against his friends; he violated his covenant. Berean Standard Bible My companion attacks his friends; he violates his covenant. King James Bible He hath put forth his hands against such as be at peace with him: he hath broken his covenant. New King James Version He has put forth his hands against those who were at peace with him; He has broken his covenant. New American Standard Bible He has put forth his hands against those who were at peace with him; He has violated his covenant. NASB 1995 He has put forth his hands against those who were at peace with him; He has violated his covenant. NASB 1977 He has put forth his hands against those who were at peace with him; He has violated his covenant. Legacy Standard Bible My companion has put forth his hands against those who were at peace with him; He has violated his covenant. Amplified Bible He [my companion] has put out his hands against those who were at peace with him; He has broken his covenant [of friendship and loyalty]. Christian Standard Bible My friend acts violently against those at peace with him; he violates his covenant. Holman Christian Standard Bible My friend acts violently against those at peace with him; he violates his covenant. American Standard Version He hath put forth his hands against such as were at peace with him: He hath profaned his covenant. Aramaic Bible in Plain English They stretched forth a hand against his companion and they smeared his covenant Brenton Septuagint Translation He has reached forth his hand for retribution; they have profaned his covenant. Contemporary English Version My friend turned against me and broke his promise. Douay-Rheims Bible he hath stretched forth his hand to repay. They have defiled his covenant, English Revised Version He hath put forth his hands against such as were at peace with him: he hath profaned his covenant. GOD'S WORD® Translation [My best friend] has betrayed his friends. He has broken his solemn promise. Good News Translation My former companion attacked his friends; he broke his promises. International Standard Version Each of my friends raises his hand against his allies; each of my friends breaks his word. JPS Tanakh 1917 He hath put forth his hands against them that were at peace with him; He hath profaned his covenant. Literal Standard Version He has sent forth his hands against his well-wishers, | He has defiled his covenant. Majority Standard Bible My companion attacks his friends; he violates his covenant. New American Bible He stretched out his hand at his friends and broke his covenant. NET Bible He attacks his friends; he breaks his solemn promises to them. New Revised Standard Version My companion laid hands on a friend and violated a covenant with me New Heart English Bible He has stretched out his hand against those who were at peace with him. He has violated his covenant. Webster's Bible Translation He hath put forth his hands against such as are at peace with him: he hath broken his covenant. World English Bible He raises his hands against his friends. He has violated his covenant. Young's Literal Translation He hath sent forth his hands against his well-wishers, He hath polluted his covenant. Additional Translations ... Audio Bible Context Cast Your Burden upon the LORD…19God will hear and humiliate them—the One enthroned for the ages—Selah because they do not change and they have no fear of God. 20My companion attacks his friends; he violates his covenant. 21His speech is smooth as butter, but war is in his heart. His words are softer than oil, yet they are swords unsheathed.… Cross References Numbers 30:2 If a man makes a vow to the LORD or swears an oath to obligate himself by a pledge, he must not break his word; he must do everything he has promised. Psalm 7:4 if I have rewarded my ally with evil, if I have plundered my foe without cause, Psalm 89:34 I will not violate My covenant or alter the utterance of My lips. Psalm 120:7 I am in favor of peace; but when I speak, they want war. Psalm 125:3 For the scepter of the wicked will not rest upon the land allotted to the righteous, so that the righteous will not put forth their hands to injustice. Treasury of Scripture He has put forth his hands against such as be at peace with him: he has broken his covenant. but 1 Samuel 22:17 And the king said unto the footmen that stood about him, Turn, and slay the priests of the LORD; because their hand also is with David, and because they knew when he fled, and did not shew it to me. But the servants of the king would not put forth their hand to fall upon the priests of the LORD. 1 Samuel 24:10 Behold, this day thine eyes have seen how that the LORD had delivered thee to day into mine hand in the cave: and some bade me kill thee: but mine eye spared thee; and I said, I will not put forth mine hand against my lord; for he is the LORD'S anointed. 2 Samuel 18:12 And the man said unto Joab, Though I should receive a thousand shekels of silver in mine hand, yet would I not put forth mine hand against the king's son: for in our hearing the king charged thee and Abishai and Ittai, saying, Beware that none touch the young man Absalom. at peace Psalm 7:4 If I have rewarded evil unto him that was at peace with me; (yea, I have delivered him that without cause is mine enemy:) Psalm 109:5 And they have rewarded me evil for good, and hatred for my love. Psalm 120:6,7 My soul hath long dwelt with him that hateth peace… broken [heb. Psalm 89:28,34,38 My mercy will I keep for him for evermore, and my covenant shall stand fast with him… 2 Samuel 2:4 And the men of Judah came, and there they anointed David king over the house of Judah. And they told David, saying, That the men of Jabeshgilead were they that buried Saul. 2 Samuel 5:3 So all the elders of Israel came to the king to Hebron; and king David made a league with them in Hebron before the LORD: and they anointed David king over Israel. Jump to Previous Agreement Attacks Broken Companion Covenant Forth Friends Hand Hands Kept Peace Polluted Profaned Raises Stretched Violated ViolatesJump to Next Agreement Attacks Broken Companion Covenant Forth Friends Hand Hands Kept Peace Polluted Profaned Raises Stretched Violated ViolatesPsalm 55 1. David in his prayer complains of his fearful case9. He prays against his enemies, of whose wickedness and treachery he complains 16. He comforts himself in God's preservation oh him, and confusion of his enemies (20) He hath.--As in Psalm 55:12, the individual specially prominent in the traitorous crew is here singled out, and his treachery exposed. He hath broken . . .--Literally, he perforated. In a note in his work on the Creed, referring to Colossians 2:14, Bishop Pearson says one mode of cancelling a bond was to drive a nail through it. Verse 20. - He hath put forth his hands against such as be at peace with him. Some explain "he" as "the wicked collectively," and maintain that in this verse and the next no particular person is pointed at; but it seems better to regard the psalmist as "suddenly reverting to the fixed and deepest thought in his heart - the treachery of his friend" (Canon Cook). Ahithophel had put forth his hand against such as were at peace with him." He hath broken his covenant. The covenant of friendship with David (ver. 14), not, perhaps, a formal one, but involved in the terms on which they stood one towards the other.Parallel Commentaries ... Hebrew My companion attacksשָׁלַ֣ח (šā·laḥ) Verb - Qal - Perfect - third person masculine singular Strong's 7971: To send away, for, out his friends; בִּשְׁלֹמָ֗יו (biš·lō·māw) Preposition-b | Noun - masculine plural construct | third person masculine singular Strong's 7965: Safe, well, happy, friendly, welfare, health, prosperity, peace he violates חִלֵּ֥ל (ḥil·lêl) Verb - Piel - Perfect - third person masculine singular Strong's 2490: To bore, to wound, to dissolve, to profane, to break, to begin, to play his covenant. בְּרִיתֽוֹ׃ (bə·rî·ṯōw) Noun - feminine singular construct | third person masculine singular Strong's 1285: A covenant Links Psalm 55:20 NIVPsalm 55:20 NLT Psalm 55:20 ESV Psalm 55:20 NASB Psalm 55:20 KJV Psalm 55:20 BibleApps.com Psalm 55:20 Biblia Paralela Psalm 55:20 Chinese Bible Psalm 55:20 French Bible Psalm 55:20 Catholic Bible OT Poetry: Psalm 55:20 He raises his hands against his friends (Psalm Ps Psa.) |
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