Psalm 56:9
New International Version
Then my enemies will turn back when I call for help. By this I will know that God is for me.

New Living Translation
My enemies will retreat when I call to you for help. This I know: God is on my side!

English Standard Version
Then my enemies will turn back in the day when I call. This I know, that God is for me.

Berean Standard Bible
Then my enemies will retreat on the day I cry for help. By this I will know that God is on my side.

King James Bible
When I cry unto thee, then shall mine enemies turn back: this I know; for God is for me.

New King James Version
When I cry out to You, Then my enemies will turn back; This I know, because God is for me.

New American Standard Bible
Then my enemies will turn back on the day when I call; This I know, that God is for me.

NASB 1995
Then my enemies will turn back in the day when I call; This I know, that God is for me.

NASB 1977
Then my enemies will turn back in the day when I call; This I know, that God is for me.

Legacy Standard Bible
Then my enemies will turn back in the day when I call; This I know, that God is for me.

Amplified Bible
Then my enemies will turn back in the day when I call; This I know, that God is for me.

Christian Standard Bible
Then my enemies will retreat on the day when I call. This I know: God is for me.

Holman Christian Standard Bible
Then my enemies will retreat on the day when I call. This I know: God is for me.

American Standard Version
Then shall mine enemies turn back in the day that I call: This I know, that God is for me.

Aramaic Bible in Plain English
Then my enemies shall turn their back and I shall know that God is for me.

Brenton Septuagint Translation
Mine enemies shall be turned back, in the day wherein I shall call upon thee; behold, I know that thou art my God.

Contemporary English Version
When I pray, LORD God, my enemies will retreat, because I know for certain that you are with me.

Douay-Rheims Bible
Then shall my enemies be turned back. In what day soever I shall call upon thee, behold I know thou art my God.

English Revised Version
Then shall mine enemies turn back in the day that I call: this I know, that God is for me.

GOD'S WORD® Translation
Then my enemies will retreat when I call [to you]. This I know: God is on my side.

Good News Translation
The day I call to you, my enemies will be turned back. I know this: God is on my side--

International Standard Version
My enemies will retreat when I call on you. This has been my experience, because God is with me.

JPS Tanakh 1917
Then shall mine enemies turn back in the day that I call; This I know, that God is for me.

Literal Standard Version
Then turn back my enemies in the day I call. This I have known, that God [is] for me.

Majority Standard Bible
Then my enemies will retreat on the day I cry for help. By this I will know that God is on my side.

New American Bible
My foes turn back when I call on you. This I know: God is on my side.

NET Bible
My enemies will turn back when I cry out to you for help; I know that God is on my side.

New Revised Standard Version
Then my enemies will retreat in the day when I call. This I know, that God is for me.

New Heart English Bible
Then my enemies shall turn back in the day that I call. I know this, that God is for me.

Webster's Bible Translation
When I cry to thee, then shall my enemies turn back: this I know; for God is for me.

World English Bible
Then my enemies shall turn back in the day that I call. I know this: that God is for me.

Young's Literal Translation
Then turn back do mine enemies in the day I call. This I have known, that God is for me.

Additional Translations ...
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Context
Be Merciful to Me, O God
8You have taken account of my wanderings. Put my tears in Your bottle—are they not in Your book? 9Then my enemies will retreat on the day I cry for help. By this I will know that God is on my side. 10In God, whose word I praise, in the LORD, whose word I praise,…

Cross References
Romans 8:31
What then shall we say in response to these things? If God is for us, who can be against us?

Psalm 9:3
When my enemies retreat, they stumble and perish before You.

Psalm 41:11
By this I know that You delight in me, for my enemy does not triumph over me.

Psalm 56:10
In God, whose word I praise, in the LORD, whose word I praise,

Psalm 102:2
Do not hide Your face from me in my day of distress. Incline Your ear to me; answer me quickly when I call.

Psalm 118:6
The LORD is on my side; I will not be afraid. What can man do to me?


Treasury of Scripture

When I cry to you, then shall my enemies turn back: this I know; for God is for me.

When

Psalm 118:11-13
They compassed me about; yea, they compassed me about: but in the name of the LORD I will destroy them…

Exodus 17:9-11
And Moses said unto Joshua, Choose us out men, and go out, fight with Amalek: to morrow I will stand on the top of the hill with the rod of God in mine hand…

Jeremiah 33:3
Call unto me, and I will answer thee, and shew thee great and mighty things, which thou knowest not.

then

Psalm 18:38-42
I have wounded them that they were not able to rise: they are fallen under my feet…

Psalm 27:2
When the wicked, even mine enemies and my foes, came upon me to eat up my flesh, they stumbled and fell.

John 18:6
As soon then as he had said unto them, I am he, they went backward, and fell to the ground.

for

Psalm 46:7,11
The LORD of hosts is with us; the God of Jacob is our refuge. Selah…

Isaiah 8:9,10
Associate yourselves, O ye people, and ye shall be broken in pieces; and give ear, all ye of far countries: gird yourselves, and ye shall be broken in pieces; gird yourselves, and ye shall be broken in pieces…

Romans 8:31
What shall we then say to these things? If God be for us, who can be against us?

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1. David, praying to God in confidence of his word, complains of his enemies,
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Verse 9. - When I cry unto thee, then shall mine enemies turn back: this I know; for God is for me; literally, in the day that I call upon thee.

Parallel Commentaries ...


Hebrew
Then
אָ֥֨ז (’āz)
Adverb
Strong's 227: At that time, place, therefore

my enemies
אוֹיְבַ֣י (’ō·wy·ḇay)
Verb - Qal - Participle - masculine plural construct | first person common singular
Strong's 341: Hating, an adversary

will retreat
יָ֘שׁ֤וּבוּ (yā·šū·ḇū)
Verb - Qal - Imperfect - third person masculine plural
Strong's 7725: To turn back, in, to retreat, again

on the day
בְּי֣וֹם (bə·yō·wm)
Preposition-b | Noun - masculine singular
Strong's 3117: A day

I cry for help.
אֶקְרָ֑א (’eq·rā)
Verb - Qal - Imperfect - first person common singular
Strong's 7121: To call, proclaim, read

By this
זֶה־ (zeh-)
Pronoun - masculine singular
Strong's 2088: This, that

I will know
יָ֝דַ֗עְתִּי (yā·ḏa‘·tî)
Verb - Qal - Perfect - first person common singular
Strong's 3045: To know

that
כִּֽי־ (kî-)
Conjunction
Strong's 3588: A relative conjunction

God [is]
אֱלֹהִ֥ים (’ĕ·lō·hîm)
Noun - masculine plural
Strong's 430: gods -- the supreme God, magistrates, a superlative

on my side.
לִֽי׃ (lî)
Preposition | first person common singular
Strong's Hebrew


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