Parallel Verses
Amplified
You have also made my enemies turn their backs to me [in defeat],
And I silenced and destroyed those who hated me.
New American Standard Bible
And I
King James Version
Thou hast also given me the necks of mine enemies; that I might destroy them that hate me.
Holman Bible
I annihilate those who hate me.
International Standard Version
You have made my enemies turn their back to me, and I will destroy those who hate me.
A Conservative Version
Thou have also made my enemies turn their backs to me, that I might cut off those who hate me.
American Standard Version
Thou hast also made mine enemies turn their backs unto me, That I might cut off them that hate me.
Bible in Basic English
By you their backs are turned in flight, so that my haters are cut off.
Darby Translation
And mine enemies didst thou make to turn their backs unto me, and those that hated me I destroyed.
Julia Smith Translation
Mine enemies thou gavest the back of the neck to me, and I shall destroy those hating me.
King James 2000
You have also given me the necks of my enemies; that I might destroy them that hate me.
Lexham Expanded Bible
And you {made my enemies turn their backs}, then I destroyed those [who] hated me.
Modern King James verseion
You have also given me the neck of my enemies; so that I might destroy those who hate me.
Modern Spelling Tyndale-Coverdale
Thou hast made mine enemies also to turn their backs upon me, and I shall destroy them that hate me. {TYNDALE: And thou madest mine enemies to turn their backs to me, and them that hated me, and I destroyed them.}
NET Bible
You make my enemies retreat; I destroy those who hate me.
New Heart English Bible
You have also made my enemies turn their backs to me, that I might cut off those who hate me.
The Emphasized Bible
As for my foes, thou didst give me their neck, and, as for them who hated me, I destroyed them.
Webster
Thou hast also given me the necks of my enemies; that I might destroy them that hate me.
World English Bible
You have also made my enemies turn their backs to me, that I might cut off those who hate me.
Youngs Literal Translation
As to mine enemies -- Thou hast given to me the neck, As to those hating me -- I cut them off.
Word Count of 20 Translations in Psalm 18:40
Verse Info
Context Readings
Praise For Deliverance
39
For You have encircled me with strength for the battle;
You have subdued under me those who rose up against me.
You have also made my enemies turn their backs to me [in defeat],
And I silenced and destroyed those who hated me.
They cried for help, but there was no one to save them—
Even to the Lord [they cried], but He did not answer them.
Cross References
Psalm 21:12
For You will make them turn their backs [in defeat];
You will aim Your bowstring [of divine justice] at their faces.
Psalm 94:23
He has turned back their own wickedness upon them
And will destroy them by means of their own evil;
The Lord our God will wipe them out.