Psalm 35:25 {34:25}
Good News Translation
Don't let them say to themselves, "We are rid of him! That's just what we wanted!"

New Revised Standard Version
Do not let them say to themselves, “Aha, we have our heart’s desire.” Do not let them say, “We have swallowed you up.”

Contemporary English Version
or say to each other, "Now we've got what we want! We'll gobble him up!"

New American Bible
Do not let them say in their hearts, “Aha! Our soul!” Do not let them say, “We have devoured that one!”

Douay-Rheims Bible
Let them not say in their hearts: It is well, it is well, to our mind: neither let them say: We have swallowed him up.

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Let them not say in their hearts: It is well, it is well, to our mind: neither let them say: We have swallowed him up.

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Psalm 27:12 Deliver me not over to the will of them that trouble me; for unjust witnesses have risen up against me; and iniquity hath lied to itself.

Psalm 28:3 Draw me not away together with the wicked; and with the workers of iniquity destroy me not: Who speak peace with their neighbour, but evils are in their hearts.

Psalm 70:3 Let them be turned backward, and blush for shame that desire evils to me: Let them be presently turned away blushing for shame that say to me: 'Tis well, 'tis well.

Psalm 74:8 They said in their heart, the whole kindred of them together: Let us abolish all the festival days of God from the land.

Job 1:5 And when the days of their feasting were gone about, Job sent to them, and sanctified them: and rising up early, offered holocausts for every one of them. For he said: Lest perhaps my sons have sinned, and have blessed God in their hearts. So did Job all days.

Mark 2:6,8 And there were some of the scribes sitting there and thinking in their hearts: . . .

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Psalm 140:8 Give me not up, O Lord, from my desire to the wicked: they have plotted against me; do not thou forsake me, lest they should triumph.

Exodus 15:9 The enemy said: I will pursue and overtake, I will divide the spoils, my soul shall have its fill: I will draw my sword, my hand shall slay them.

Matthew 27:43 He trusted in God: let him now deliver him if he will have him. For he said: I am the Son of God.

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Psalm 56:1,2 Unto the end, for a people that is removed at a distance from the sanctuary: for David, for an inscription of a title (or pillar) when the Philistines held him in Geth. [2] Have mercy on me, O God, for man hath trodden me under foot; all the day long he hath afflicted me fighting against me. . . .

Psalm 57:3 He hath sent from heaven and delivered me: he hath made them a reproach that trod upon me. God hath sent his mercy and his truth,

Psalm 124:3 Perhaps they had swallowed us up alive. When their fury was enkindled against us,

2 Samuel 20:19 Am not I she that answer truth in Israel, and thou seekest to destroy the city, and to overthrow a mother in Israel? Why wilt thou throw down the inheritance of the Lord?

Lamentations 2:16 Phe. All thy enemies have opened their mouth against thee: they have hissed, and gnashed with the teeth, and have said: We will swallow her up: lo, this is the day which we looked for: we have found it, we have seen it.

1 Corinthians 15:54 And when this mortal hath put on immortality, then shall come to pass the saying that is written: Death is swallowed up in victory.

Context
Contend with My Opponents
24Judge me, O Lord my God according to thy justice, and let them not rejoice over me. 25Let them not say in their hearts: It is well, it is well, to our mind: neither let them say: We have swallowed him up.26Let them blush: and be ashamed together, who rejoice at my evils. Let them be clothed with confusion and shame, who speak great things against me.…
Cross References
Psalm 35:21
And they opened their mouth wide against me; they said: Well done, well done, our eyes have seen it.

Psalm 56:1
Unto the end, for a people that is removed at a distance from the sanctuary: for David, for an inscription of a title (or pillar) when the Philistines held him in Geth. [2] Have mercy on me, O God, for man hath trodden me under foot; all the day long he hath afflicted me fighting against me.

Psalm 56:2
My enemies have trodden on me all the day long; for they are many that make war against me.

Psalm 124:3
Perhaps they had swallowed us up alive. When their fury was enkindled against us,

Proverbs 1:12
We shall find all precious substance, we shall fill our houses with spoils.

Lamentations 2:16
Phe. All thy enemies have opened their mouth against thee: they have hissed, and gnashed with the teeth, and have said: We will swallow her up: lo, this is the day which we looked for: we have found it, we have seen it.

Habakkuk 1:13
Thy eyes are too pure to behold evil, and thou canst not look on iniquity. Why lookest thou upon them that do unjust things, and holdest thy peace when the wicked devoureth the man that is more just than himself?

Psalm 35:24
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