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Psalms 63:9

New American Standard Bible (NASB ©1995) [2]
— But those who seek my life to destroy it, Will go into the depths of the earth.
King James Version (KJV 1769) [2]
— But those [that] seek my soul, to destroy [it], shall go into the lower parts of the earth.
English Revised Version (ERV 1885)
— But those that seek my soul, to destroy it, shall go into the lower parts of the earth.
American Standard Version (ASV 1901) [2]
— But those that seek my soul, to destroy it, Shall go into the lower parts of the earth.
Webster's Revision of the KJB (WEB 1833)
— But those [that] seek my soul to destroy [it], shall go into the lower parts of the earth.
Darby's Translation (DBY 1890)
— But those that seek my soul, to destroy [it], shall go into the lower parts of the earth;
Rotherham's Emphasized Bible (EBR 1902)
— When, they, to crush it, would seek my life, They shall go into the lower parts of the earth:
Young's Literal Translation (YLT 1898)
— And they who for desolation seek my soul, Go in to the lower parts of the earth.
Douay-Rheims Challoner Revision (DR 1750)
— But they have sought my soul in vain, they shall go into the lower parts of the earth:
Geneva Bible (GNV 1560)
— Therefore they that seeke my soule to destroy it, they shall goe into the lowest partes of the earth.
Original King James Bible (AV 1611) [2]
— But those [that] seeke my soule to destroy it, shall goe into the lower parts of the earth.
Lamsa Bible (1957)
— But those that seek my soul, to destroy it, shall go into the lower parts of the earth.
Brenton Greek Septuagint (LXX, Restored Names)
— But they vainly sought after my soul; they shall go into the lowest parts o the earth.
Full Hebrew Names / Holy Name KJV (2008) [2] [3]
— But those [that] seek my soul, to destroy [it], shall go into the lower parts of the earth.

Strong's Numbers & Hebrew NamesHebrew Old TestamentColor-Code/Key Word Studies
But those x1992
(1992) Complement
הֵם
hem
{haym}
Masculine plural from H1931; they (only used when emphatic).
[that] seek 1245
{1245} Prime
בּקשׁ
baqash
{baw-kash'}
A primitive root; to search out (by any method; specifically in worship or prayer); by implication to strive after.
z8762
<8762> Grammar
Stem - Piel (See H8840)
Mood - Imperfect (See H8811)
Count - 2447
my soul, 5315
{5315} Prime
נֶפֶשׁ
nephesh
{neh'-fesh}
From H5314; properly a breathing creature, that is, animal or (abstractly) vitality; used very widely in a literal, accommodated or figurative sense (bodily or mental).
to destroy 7722
{7722} Prime
שׁוֹא
show'
{sho}
From an unused root meaning to rush over; a tempest; by implication devastation.
[it], shall go 935
{0935} Prime
בּוֹא
bow'
{bo}
A primitive root; to go or come (in a wide variety of applications).
z8799
<8799> Grammar
Stem - Qal (See H8851)
Mood - Imperfect (See H8811)
Count - 19885
into the lower parts 8482
{8482} Prime
תַּחְתִּי
tachtiy
{takh-tee'}
From H8478; lowermost; as noun (feminine plural) the depths (figuratively a pit, the womb).
of the earth. 776
{0776} Prime
אֶרֶץ
'erets
{eh'-rets}
From an unused root probably meaning to be firm; the earth (at large, or partitively a land).
Jamieson-Fausset-Brown Commentary

Psalms 63:9-10

_ _ those ... to destroy it — or literally, “to ruin,” or, “for ruin”; that is, such as seek to injure me (are) for ruin, appointed to it (compare Psalms 35:8).

_ _ shall go ... earth — into the grave, or, to death; as their bodies are represented as a portion for —

Matthew Henry's Commentary

See commentary on Psalms 63:7-11.

John Wesley's Explanatory Notes

Psalms 63:9

Shall go — Into the grave.

Geneva Bible Translation Notes

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Cross-Reference Topical ResearchStrong's Concordance
seek:

Psalms 35:4 Let them be confounded and put to shame that seek after my soul: let them be turned back and brought to confusion that devise my hurt.
Psalms 35:26 Let them be ashamed and brought to confusion together that rejoice at mine hurt: let them be clothed with shame and dishonour that magnify [themselves] against me.
Psalms 38:12 They also that seek after my life lay snares [for me]: and they that seek my hurt speak mischievous things, and imagine deceits all the day long.
Psalms 40:14 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.
Psalms 70:2 Let them be ashamed and confounded that seek after my soul: let them be turned backward, and put to confusion, that desire my hurt.
1 Samuel 25:29 Yet a man is risen to pursue thee, and to seek thy soul: but the soul of my lord shall be bound in the bundle of life with the LORD thy God; and the souls of thine enemies, them shall he sling out, [as out] of the middle of a sling.

go:

Psalms 9:17 The wicked shall be turned into hell, [and] all the nations that forget God.
Psalms 55:15 Let death seize upon them, [and] let them go down quick into hell: for wickedness [is] in their dwellings, [and] among them.
Psalms 55:23 But thou, O God, shalt bring them down into the pit of destruction: bloody and deceitful men shall not live out half their days; but I will trust in thee.
Psalms 86:13 For great [is] thy mercy toward me: and thou hast delivered my soul from the lowest hell.
Numbers 16:30-33 But if the LORD make a new thing, and the earth open her mouth, and swallow them up, with all that [appertain] unto them, and they go down quick into the pit; then ye shall understand that these men have provoked the LORD. ... They, and all that [appertained] to them, went down alive into the pit, and the earth closed upon them: and they perished from among the congregation.
1 Samuel 28:19 Moreover the LORD will also deliver Israel with thee into the hand of the Philistines: and to morrow [shalt] thou and thy sons [be] with me: the LORD also shall deliver the host of Israel into the hand of the Philistines.
Job 40:13 Hide them in the dust together; [and] bind their faces in secret.
Isaiah 14:9 Hell from beneath is moved for thee to meet [thee] at thy coming: it stirreth up the dead for thee, [even] all the chief ones of the earth; it hath raised up from their thrones all the kings of the nations.
Isaiah 14:15 Yet thou shalt be brought down to hell, to the sides of the pit.
Isaiah 14:19 But thou art cast out of thy grave like an abominable branch, [and as] the raiment of those that are slain, thrust through with a sword, that go down to the stones of the pit; as a carcase trodden under feet.
Isaiah 14:19 But thou art cast out of thy grave like an abominable branch, [and as] the raiment of those that are slain, thrust through with a sword, that go down to the stones of the pit; as a carcase trodden under feet.
Ezekiel 32:18-32 Son of man, wail for the multitude of Egypt, and cast them down, [even] her, and the daughters of the famous nations, unto the nether parts of the earth, with them that go down into the pit. ... For I have caused my terror in the land of the living: and he shall be laid in the midst of the uncircumcised with [them that are] slain with the sword, [even] Pharaoh and all his multitude, saith the Lord GOD.
Acts 1:25 That he may take part of this ministry and apostleship, from which Judas by transgression fell, that he might go to his own place.
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Chain-Reference Bible SearchCross References with Concordance

Nu 16:30. 1S 25:29; 28:19. Jb 40:13. Ps 9:17; 35:4, 26; 38:12; 40:14; 55:15, 23; 70:2; 86:13. Is 14:9, 15, 19. Ezk 32:18. Ac 1:25.

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