Psalms 35:6

Young's Literal Translation (1862/1898)

Their way is darkness and slipperiness, And a messenger of Jehovah their pursuer.

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Referenced Verses

  • Ps 73:18 : 18 Only, in slippery places Thou dost set them, Thou hast caused them to fall to desolations.
  • Jer 23:12 : 12 Therefore is their way to them as slippery places, Into thick darkness they are driven, And they have fallen in it, For I bring in against them evil, The year of their inspection, An affirmation of Jehovah.
  • Prov 4:19 : 19 The way of the wicked `is' as darkness, They have not known at what they stumble.
  • Jer 13:16 : 16 Give ye to Jehovah your God honour, Before He doth cause darkness, And before your feet stumble on dark mountains, And ye have waited for light, And He hath made it for death-shade, And hath appointed `it' for thick darkness.

Similar Verses (AI)

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  • Ps 35:4-5
    2 verses
    85%

    4They are ashamed and blush, those seeking my soul, Turned backward and confounded, Those devising my evil.

    5They are as chaff before wind, And a messenger of Jehovah driving away.

  • Ps 35:7-8
    2 verses
    76%

    7For without cause they hid for me their netpit, Without cause they digged for my soul.

    8Meet him doth desolation -- he knoweth not, And his net that he hid catcheth him, For desolation he falleth into it.

  • Ps 69:22-25
    4 verses
    75%

    22Their table before them is for a snare, And for a recompence -- for a trap.

    23Darkened are their eyes from seeing, And their loins continually shake Thou.

    24Pour upon them Thine indignation, And the fierceness of Thine anger doth seize them.

    25Their tower is desolated, In their tents there is no dweller.

  • Ps 140:9-10
    2 verses
    74%

    9The chief of my surrounders, The perverseness of their lips covereth them.

    10They cause to fall on themselves burning coals, Into fire He doth cast them, Into deep pits -- they arise not.

  • 15Desolations `are' upon them, They go down `to' Sheol -- alive, For wickedness `is' in their dwelling, in their midst.

  • 12Therefore is their way to them as slippery places, Into thick darkness they are driven, And they have fallen in it, For I bring in against them evil, The year of their inspection, An affirmation of Jehovah.

  • Job 3:5-6
    2 verses
    74%

    5Let darkness and death-shade redeem it, Let a cloud tabernacle upon it, Let them terrify it as the most bitter of days.

    6That night -- let thick darkness take it, Let it not be united to days of the year, Into the number of months let it not come.

  • Rom 11:9-10
    2 verses
    74%

    9and David saith, `Let their table become for a snare, and for a trap, and for a stumbling-block, and for a recompense to them;

    10let their eyes be darkened -- not to behold, and their back do Thou always bow down.'

  • Jer 18:22-23
    2 verses
    73%

    22A cry is heard from their houses, For Thou bringest against them suddenly a troop, For they dug a pit to capture me, And snares they have hidden for my feet.

    23And Thou, O Jehovah, Thou hast known, All their counsel against me `is' for death, Thou dost not cover over their iniquity, Nor their sin from before Thee blottest out, And they are made to stumble before Thee, In the time of Thine anger work against them!

  • Ps 83:15-17
    3 verses
    73%

    15So dost Thou pursue them with Thy whirlwind, And with Thy hurricane troublest them.

    16Fill their faces `with' shame, And they seek Thy name, O Jehovah.

    17They are ashamed and troubled for ever, Yea, they are confounded and lost.

  • Lam 3:65-66
    2 verses
    73%

    65Thou givest to them a covered heart, Thy curse to them.

    66Thou pursuest in anger, and destroyest them, From under the heavens of Jehovah!

  • 27Give punishment for their iniquity, And they enter not into Thy righteousness.

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    5An enemy pursueth my soul, and overtaketh, And treadeth down to the earth my life, And my honour placeth in the dust. Selah.

  • 7They are melted as waters, They go up and down for themselves, His arrow proceedeth as they cut themselves off.

  • Ps 56:6-7
    2 verses
    72%

    6They assemble, they hide, they watch my heels, When they have expected my soul.

    7By iniquity they escape, In anger the peoples put down, O God.

  • Ps 35:24-26
    3 verses
    72%

    24Judge me according to Thy righteousness, O Jehovah my God, And they do not rejoice over me.

    25They do not say in their heart, `Aha, our desire.' They do not say, `We swallowed him up.'

    26They are ashamed and confounded together, Who are rejoicing at my evil. They put on shame and confusion, Who are magnifying themselves against me.

  • 19Swifter have been our pursuers, Than the eagles of the heavens, On the mountains they have burned `after' us, In the wilderness they have laid wait for us.

  • 14They are ashamed and confounded together, Who are seeking my soul to destroy it, They are turned backward, And are ashamed, who are desiring my evil.

  • 18Let my pursuers be ashamed, and let not me be ashamed -- me! Let them be affrighted, and let not me be affrighted -- me! Bring in on them a day of evil, And a second time `with' destruction destroy them.

  • 32The wicked is watching for the righteous, And is seeking to put him to death.

  • 18Only, in slippery places Thou dost set them, Thou hast caused them to fall to desolations.

  • 10Declare them guilty, O God, Let them fall from their own counsels, In the abundance of their transgressions Drive them away, Because they have rebelled against Thee.

  • 2Let them be ashamed and confounded Who are seeking my soul, Let them be turned backward and blush Who are desiring my evil.

  • 12We swallow them as Sheol -- alive, And whole -- as those going down `to' the pit,

  • 12The sin of their mouth `is' a word of their lips, And they are captured in their pride, And from the curse and lying they recount.

  • 11`Our steps now have compassed `him';' Their eyes they set to turn aside in the land.

  • 8And with a flood passing over, An end He maketh of its place, And His enemies doth darkness pursue.

  • 6A net they have prepared for my steps, Bowed down hath my soul, They have digged before me a pit, They have fallen into its midst. Selah.

  • 6Send forth lightning, and scatter them, Send forth Thine arrows, and trouble them,

  • 6Appoint Thou over him the wicked, And an adversary standeth at his right hand.

  • 7As the wicked is my enemy, And my withstander as the perverse.

  • 7And God doth shoot them `with' an arrow, Sudden have been their wounds,

  • 35Mine `are' vengeance and recompense, At the due time -- doth their foot slide; For near is a day of their calamity, And haste do things prepared for them.

  • 49He sendeth on them the fury of His anger, Wrath, and indignation, and distress -- A discharge of evil messengers.

  • 10And wander continually do his sons, Yea, they have begged, And have sought out of their dry places.