Psalm 40:14 in every translation
Leer en españolThe same verse in each translation we publish, grouped by language and by the tradition that made it. Numbering is matched for each text (for example, Psalms in the Septuagint).
English
Catholic
DRB Douay-Rheims (Challoner), American Edition 1899 In this text: Psalm 39:15
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.
CPDV Catholic Public Domain Version In this text: Psalm 39:15
Let them together be confounded and awed, who seek after my soul to steal it away. Let them be turned back and be in awe, who wish evils upon me.
Protestant
WEB World English Bible (Classic, with Deuterocanon)
Let them be disappointed and confounded together who seek after my soul to destroy it. Let them be turned backward and brought to dishonor who delight in my hurt.
WEBBE World English Bible British Edition (with Deuterocanon)
Let them be disappointed and confounded together who seek after my soul to destroy it. Let them be turned backward and brought to dishonour who delight in my hurt.
KJV King James Version (with Apocrypha)
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.
RV Revised Version with Apocrypha
Let them be ashamed and confounded together that seek after my soul to destroy it: let them be turned backward and brought to dishonour that delight in my hurt.
MSB Majority Standard Bible
May those who seek my life be ashamed and confounded; may those who wish me harm be repelled and humiliated.
BSB Berean Standard Bible
May those who seek my life be ashamed and confounded; may those who wish me harm be repelled and humiliated.
ASV American Standard Version (1901)
Let them be put to shame and confounded together That seek after my soul to destroy it: Let them be turned backward and brought to dishonor That delight in my hurt.
LSV Literal Standard Version
They 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.
Read in context · Literal Standard Version. Copyright © 2020 Covenant Press. Text from eBible.org (https://ebible.org/englsv/), unaltered. Licensed CC BY-SA 4.0.
Darby Darby Translation
Let them be ashamed and brought to confusion together that seek after my soul to destroy it; let them be turned backward and confounded that take pleasure in mine adversity;
Webster Noah Webster's Bible (1833)
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.
GNV Geneva Bible (1599)
Let them be confounded and put to shame together, that seeke my soule to destroye it: let them be driuen backward and put to rebuke, that desire mine hurt.
ULB Unlocked Literal Bible
Let them be ashamed and completely disappointed who pursue my life to take it away. Let them be turned back and brought to dishonor, those who delight in hurting me.
Read in context · Unlocked Literal Bible. Copyright © 2017 Door43 World Missions Community. Text from eBible.org (https://ebible.org/engULB/), unaltered. Licensed CC BY-SA 4.0.
Jewish
JPS JPS Tanakh (1917)
(40-15) Let them be ashamed and abashed together that seek after my soul to sweep it away; let them be turned backward and brought to confusion that delight in my hurt.
Individual translator
Brenton Brenton's English Septuagint In this text: Psalm 39:15
Let those that seek my soul, to destroy it, be ashamed and confounded together; let those that wish me evil be turned backward and put to shame.
LXXUP Updated Brenton English Septuagint In this text: Psalm 39:15
Let those that seek my soul, to destroy it, be ashamed and confounded together; Let those that wish me evil be turned backward and put to shame.
YLT Young's Literal Translation
They 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.
FBV Free Bible Version
Please defeat and humiliate the people who are trying to kill me; turn back in disgrace those who want to hurt me.
Read in context · Free Bible Version. Copyright © 2018 Dr. Jonathan Gallagher. Text from eBible.org (https://ebible.org/engfbv/), unaltered. Licensed CC BY-SA 4.0.
Scholarly edition
BBE Bible in Basic English
Let those who go after my soul for its destruction have shame and trouble together; let them be turned back and made foolish who take pleasure in my trouble.
Spanish
Protestant
RV1909 Reina-Valera 1909
Sean avergonzados y confusos á una los que buscan mi vida para cortarla: vuelvan atrás y avergüéncense los que mi mal desean.
ONBV Biblica Open New Living Bible (Nueva Biblia Viva 2008)
Sean avergonzados y humillados aquellos que tratan de aniquilarme. Huyan deshonrados aquellos que se deleitan en mis problemas.
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PDT God's Word for You (Latin American Textual Bible)
¡Sean avergonzados y humillados Los que buscan mi vida para destruirla! Sean vueltos atrás y deshonrados Los que se deleitan en mi calamidad.
Read in context · Palabra de Dios para ti © 2020 Asociación Bíblica Latinoamericana. Texto de eBible.org (https://ebible.org/spapddpt/), sin cambios. Licencia CC BY-SA 4.0.
Individual translator
VBL Free Bible Version (Spanish)
Derrota y humilla a los que están intentando matarme; lleva desgracia a los que están tratando de herirme.
Read in context · Versión Biblia Libre. Copyright © 2018-2020 Jonathan Gallagher y Shelly Barrios de Avila. Texto de eBible.org (https://ebible.org/spavbl/), sin cambios. Licencia CC BY-SA 4.0.
BES Bible in Simple Spanish (2026)
Que queden avergonzados y angustiados los que buscan quitarme la vida; que retrocedan y queden confundidos quienes se alegran de mi desgracia.
Read in context · La Biblia en Español Sencillo, traducida y editada por Irma Flores (AudioBiblia.org).
Greek
Scholarly edition
LXX Brenton's Greek Septuagint In this text: Psalm 39:15
Καταισχυνθείησαν καὶ ἐντραπείησαν ἅμα οἱ ζητοῦντες τὴν ψυχήν μου, τοῦ ἐξάραι αὐτήν· ἀποστραφείησαν εἰς τὰ ὀπίσω, καὶ ἐντραπείησαν οἱ θέλοντές μοι κακά.
Hebrew
Scholarly edition
WLC Westminster Leningrad Codex In this text: Psalm 40:15
יֵ֘בֹ֤שׁוּ וְיַחְפְּר֨וּ ׀ יַחַד֮ מְבַקְשֵׁ֥י נַפְשִׁ֗י לִסְפּ֫וֹתָ֥הּ יִסֹּ֣גוּ אָ֭חוֹר וְיִכָּלְמ֑וּ חֲ֝פֵצֵ֗י רָעָתִֽי׃
Latin
Catholic
VUL Clementine Vulgate In this text: Psalm 39:15
Confundantur et revereantur simul, qui quærunt animam meam ut auferant eam; convertantur retrorsum et revereantur, qui volunt mihi mala.
Church Slavonic
Orthodox
Slavonic Church Slavonic Bible (Elizabeth Bible) In this text: Psalm 39:15
Да постыдѧ́тсѧ и҆ посра́мѧтсѧ вкꙋ́пѣ и҆́щꙋщїи дꙋ́шꙋ мою̀, и҆з̾ѧ́ти ю҆̀: да возвратѧ́тсѧ вспѧ́ть и҆ постыдѧ́тсѧ хотѧ́щїи мѝ ѕла̑ѧ.
Read in context · Church Slavonic text: Ponomar Project (github.com/typiconman/ponomar), © 2006–2018 Aleksandr Andreev and others, licensed under the GNU General Public License v3 or later. Changes for this site (2026-10-18): lectionary pericope markers, marginal glosses and the closing note of Genesis removed, Psalm verses renumbered to the Russian Synodal numbering, joined verses noted; the words are unchanged.
Russian
Orthodox
Synodal Russian Synodal Bible (1876) In this text: Psalm 39:15
Да постыдятся и посрамятся все, ищущие погибели душе моей! Да будут обращены назад и преданы посмеянию желающие мне зла!
Greek (modern)
Individual translator
Vamvas Modern Greek Bible: Vamvas (1850)
Ας αισχυνθώσι και ας εκτραπώσιν ομού οι ζητούντες την ψυχήν μου, διά να απολέσωσιν αυτήν· ας στραφώσιν εις τα οπίσω και ας εντραπώσιν οι θέλοντες το κακόν μου.
Serbian
Individual translator
DK Serbian Bible: Daničić–Karadžić (Cyrillic)
Нек се постиде и посраме сви који траже погибао души мојој! Нек се врате натраг и постиде који ми желе зло.
DK latinica Serbian Bible: Daničić–Karadžić (Latin script)
Nek se postide i posrame svi koji traže pogibao duši mojoj! Nek se vrate natrag i postide koji mi žele zlo.
Arabic
Protestant
SVD Arabic Bible: Smith–Van Dyck (1865)
لِيَخْزَ وَلْيَخْجَلْ مَعًا ٱلَّذِينَ يَطْلُبُونَ نَفْسِي لِإِهْلَاكِهَا. لِيَرْتَدَّ إِلَى ٱلْوَرَاءِ، وَلْيَخْزَ ٱلْمَسْرُورُونَ بِأَذِيَّتِي.
Not in these translations (8)
Tyndale, Scío, PT1904, PT, RP2018, TR, Nestle 1904, SBLGNT