Psalms 118:12

King James Version 1611 (Original)

They compassed me about like bees; they are quenched as the fire of thorns: for in the name of the LORD I will destroy them.

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  • Deut 1:44 : 44 And the Amorites, which dwelt in that mountain, came out against you, and chased you, as bees do, and destroyed you in Seir, even unto Hormah.
  • 1 Sam 17:45 : 45 Then said David to the Philistine, Thou comest to me with a sword, and with a spear, and with a shield: but I come to thee in the name of the LORD of hosts, the God of the armies of Israel, whom thou hast defied.
  • Ps 20:5 : 5 We will rejoice in thy salvation, and in the name of our God we will set up our banners: the LORD fulfil all thy petitions.
  • Ps 58:9 : 9 Before your pots can feel the thorns, he shall take them away as with a whirlwind, both living, and in his wrath.
  • Isa 27:4 : 4 Fury is not in me: who would set the briers and thorns against me in battle? I would go through them, I would burn them together.
  • Nah 1:10 : 10 For while they be folden together as thorns, and while they are drunken as drunkards, they shall be devoured as stubble fully dry.
  • Ps 83:14-15 : 14 As the fire burneth a wood, and as the flame setteth the mountains on fire; 15 So persecute them with thy tempest, and make them afraid with thy storm.
  • Eccl 7:6 : 6 For as the crackling of thorns under a pot, so is the laughter of the fool: this also is vanity.
  • 2 Sam 23:6 : 6 But the sons of Belial shall be all of them as thorns thrust away, because they cannot be taken with hands:
  • 1 Chr 14:10-11 : 10 And David enquired of God, saying, Shall I go up against the Philistines? and wilt thou deliver them into mine hand? And the LORD said unto him, Go up; for I will deliver them into thine hand. 11 So they came up to Baalperazim; and David smote them there. Then David said, God hath broken in upon mine enemies by mine hand like the breaking forth of waters: therefore they called the name of that place Baalperazim.
  • 1 Chr 14:14-16 : 14 Therefore David enquired again of God; and God said unto him, Go not up after them; turn away from them, and come upon them over against the mulberry trees. 15 And it shall be, when thou shalt hear a sound of going in the tops of the mulberry trees, that then thou shalt go out to battle: for God is gone forth before thee to smite the host of the Philistines. 16 David therefore did as God commanded him: and they smote the host of the Philistines from Gibeon even to Gazer.
  • 2 Chr 14:11-12 : 11 And Asa cried unto the LORD his God, and said, LORD, it is nothing with thee to help, whether with many, or with them that have no power: help us, O LORD our God; for we rest on thee, and in thy name we go against this multitude. O LORD, thou art our God; let not man prevail against thee. 12 So the LORD smote the Ethiopians before Asa, and before Judah; and the Ethiopians fled.
  • 2 Chr 16:7-9 : 7 And at that time Hanani the seer came to Asa king of Judah, and said unto him, Because thou hast relied on the king of Syria, and not relied on the LORD thy God, therefore is the host of the king of Syria escaped out of thine hand. 8 Were not the Ethiopians and the Lubims a huge host, with very many chariots and horsemen? yet, because thou didst rely on the LORD, he delivered them into thine hand. 9 For the eyes of the LORD run to and fro throughout the whole earth, to shew himself strong in the behalf of them whose heart is perfect toward him. Herein thou hast done foolishly: therefore from henceforth thou shalt have wars.
  • 2 Chr 20:17-22 : 17 Ye shall not need to fight in this battle: set yourselves, stand ye still, and see the salvation of the LORD with you, O Judah and Jerusalem: fear not, nor be dismayed; to morrow go out against them: for the LORD will be with you. 18 And Jehoshaphat bowed his head with his face to the ground: and all Judah and the inhabitants of Jerusalem fell before the LORD, worshipping the LORD. 19 And the Levites, of the children of the Kohathites, and of the children of the Korhites, stood up to praise the LORD God of Israel with a loud voice on high. 20 And they rose early in the morning, and went forth into the wilderness of Tekoa: and as they went forth, Jehoshaphat stood and said, Hear me, O Judah, and ye inhabitants of Jerusalem; Believe in the LORD your God, so shall ye be established; believe his prophets, so shall ye prosper. 21 And when he had consulted with the people, he appointed singers unto the LORD, and that should praise the beauty of holiness, as they went out before the army, and to say, Praise the LORD; for his mercy endureth for ever. 22 And when they began to sing and to praise, the LORD set ambushments against the children of Ammon, Moab, and mount Seir, which were come against Judah; and they were smitten.
  • 2 Chr 22:7-8 : 7 And the destruction of Ahaziah was of God by coming to Joram: for when he was come, he went out with Jehoram against Jehu the son of Nimshi, whom the LORD had anointed to cut off the house of Ahab. 8 And it came to pass, that, when Jehu was executing judgment upon the house of Ahab, and found the princes of Judah, and the sons of the brethren of Ahaziah, that ministered to Ahaziah, he slew them.
  • Ps 8:9 : 9 O LORD our Lord, how excellent is thy name in all the earth!
  • Ps 20:1 : 1 The LORD hear thee in the day of trouble; the name of the God of Jacob defend thee;

Similar Verses (AI)

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  • Ps 118:10-11
    2 verses
    92%

    10 All nations compassed me about: but in the name of the LORD will I destroy them.

    11 They compassed me about; yea, they compassed me about: but in the name of the LORD I will destroy them.

  • 13 Thou hast thrust sore at me that I might fall: but the LORD helped me.

  • 17 They came round about me daily like water; they compassed me about together.

  • 9 From the wicked that oppress me, from my deadly enemies, who compass me about.

  • 75%

    38 I have pursued mine enemies, and destroyed them; and turned not again until I had consumed them.

    39 And I have consumed them, and wounded them, that they could not arise: yea, they are fallen under my feet.

    40 For thou hast girded me with strength to battle: them that rose up against me hast thou subdued under me.

    41 Thou hast also given me the necks of mine enemies, that I might destroy them that hate me.

  • 3 They compassed me about also with words of hatred; and fought against me without a cause.

  • Ps 22:12-13
    2 verses
    74%

    12 Many bulls have compassed me: strong bulls of Bashan have beset me round.

    13 They gaped upon me with their mouths, as a ravening and a roaring lion.

  • Ps 18:37-40
    4 verses
    74%

    37 I have pursued mine enemies, and overtaken them: neither did I turn again till they were consumed.

    38 I have wounded them that they were not able to rise: they are fallen under my feet.

    39 For thou hast girded me with strength unto the battle: thou hast subdued under me those that rose up against me.

    40 Thou hast also given me the necks of mine enemies; that I might destroy them that hate me.

  • 12 And the people shall be as the burnings of lime: as thorns cut up shall they be burned in the fire.

  • Job 30:12-14
    3 verses
    74%

    12 Upon my right hand rise the youth; they push away my feet, and they raise up against me the ways of their destruction.

    13 They mar my path, they set forward my calamity, they have no helper.

    14 They came upon me as a wide breaking in of waters: in the desolation they rolled themselves upon me.

  • Ps 118:6-7
    2 verses
    73%

    6 The LORD is on my side; I will not fear: what can man do unto me?

    7 The LORD taketh my part with them that help me: therefore shall I see my desire upon them that hate me.

  • 13 From above hath he sent fire into my bones, and it prevaileth against them: he hath spread a net for my feet, he hath turned me back: he hath made me desolate and faint all the day.

  • Ps 140:9-10
    2 verses
    73%

    9 As for the head of those that compass me about, let the mischief of their own lips cover them.

    10 Let burning coals fall upon them: let them be cast into the fire; into deep pits, that they rise not up again.

  • 42 Then did I beat them small as the dust before the wind: I did cast them out as the dirt in the streets.

  • 10 For while they be folden together as thorns, and while they are drunken as drunkards, they shall be devoured as stubble fully dry.

  • 12 His troops come together, and raise up their way against me, and encamp round about my tabernacle.

  • 10 They have gaped upon me with their mouth; they have smitten me upon the cheek reproachfully; they have gathered themselves together against me.

  • 11 But the LORD is with me as a mighty terrible one: therefore my persecutors shall stumble, and they shall not prevail: they shall be greatly ashamed; for they shall not prosper: their everlasting confusion shall never be forgotten.

  • 16 For dogs have compassed me: the assembly of the wicked have inclosed me: they pierced my hands and my feet.

  • 19 But I was like a lamb or an ox that is brought to the slaughter; and I knew not that they had devised devices against me, saying, Let us destroy the tree with the fruit thereof, and let us cut him off from the land of the living, that his name may be no more remembered.

  • 18 For wickedness burneth as the fire: it shall devour the briers and thorns, and shall kindle in the thickets of the forest, and they shall mount up like the lifting up of smoke.

  • 14 As the fire burneth a wood, and as the flame setteth the mountains on fire;

  • 13 His archers compass me round about, he cleaveth my reins asunder, and doth not spare; he poureth out my gall upon the ground.

  • 9 Thou shalt make them as a fiery oven in the time of thine anger: the LORD shall swallow them up in his wrath, and the fire shall devour them.

  • 4 My soul is among lions: and I lie even among them that are set on fire, even the sons of men, whose teeth are spears and arrows, and their tongue a sharp sword.

  • 4 Fury is not in me: who would set the briers and thorns against me in battle? I would go through them, I would burn them together.

  • 5 The proud have hid a snare for me, and cords; they have spread a net by the wayside; they have set gins for me. Selah.

  • 8 Mine enemies reproach me all the day; and they that are mad against me are sworn against me.

  • 6 They have prepared a net for my steps; my soul is bowed down: they have digged a pit before me, into the midst whereof they are fallen themselves. Selah.

  • 2 When the wicked, even mine enemies and my foes, came upon me to eat up my flesh, they stumbled and fell.

  • 11 They have now compassed us in our steps: they have set their eyes bowing down to the earth;

  • 18 Let them be confounded that persecute me, but let not me be confounded: let them be dismayed, but let not me be dismayed: bring upon them the day of evil, and destroy them with double destruction.

  • 14 Let them be ashamed and confounded together that seek after my soul to destroy it; let them be driven backward and put to shame that wish me evil.

  • 11 He hath turned aside my ways, and pulled me in pieces: he hath made me desolate.

  • 18 They prevented me in the day of my calamity: but the LORD was my stay.

  • 22 I hate them with perfect hatred: I count them mine enemies.

  • 13 Let them be confounded and consumed that are adversaries to my soul; let them be covered with reproach and dishonour that seek my hurt.

  • 3 Because of the voice of the enemy, because of the oppression of the wicked: for they cast iniquity upon me, and in wrath they hate me.