Psalm 118:12
They swarmed around me like bees, but they were extinguished like burning thorns; in the name of the Lord I cut them off.
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.
Note destroy: Heb. cut down
They surrounded me like bees. They are quenched like the burning thorns. In the Lord’s name I cut them off.
They compassed me about like bees; they are quenched as the fire of thorns: In the name of Jehovah I will cut them off.
Related passages
From the Treasury of Scripture Knowledge, grouped by the word they explain.
- like bees
- Deuteronomy 1:44
- quenched
- Psalm 83:14, 15; Ecclesiastes 7:6; Isaiah 27:4; Nahum 1:10
- in the name
- Psalm 8:9; Psalm 20:1, 5; 1 Samuel 17:45; 2 Samuel 23:6; 1 Chronicles 14:10, 11, 14–16; 2 Chronicles 14:11, 12; 2 Chronicles 16:7–9; 2 Chronicles 20:17–22; 2 Chronicles 22:7, 8