20 Terrors overtake him like a flood;(A)
a storm(B) wind sweeps him away at night.

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20 Terrors(A) overtake him like a flood;(B)
    a tempest snatches him away in the night.(C)

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may an enemy pursue and overtake me;
may he trample me to the ground(A)
and leave my honor in the dust.(B)Selah

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then let my enemy pursue and overtake(A) me;
    let him trample my life to the ground(B)
    and make me sleep in the dust.[a](C)

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Footnotes

  1. Psalm 7:5 The Hebrew has Selah (a word of uncertain meaning) here.

12 For troubles without number have surrounded me;
my iniquities have overtaken me; I am unable to see.
They are more than the hairs of my head,
and my courage leaves me.(A)

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12 For troubles(A) without number surround me;
    my sins have overtaken me, and I cannot see.(B)
They are more than the hairs of my head,(C)
    and my heart fails(D) within me.

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24 Pour out your rage on them,
and let your burning anger overtake them.(A)

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24 Pour out your wrath(A) on them;
    let your fierce anger overtake them.

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Israel’s Defeat because of Sin

Israel, you have sinned
since the days of Gibeah;(A)
they have taken their stand there.
Will not war against the unjust
overtake them in Gibeah?

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“Since the days of Gibeah,(A) you have sinned,(B) Israel,
    and there you have remained.[a]
Will not war again overtake
    the evildoers in Gibeah?

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Footnotes

  1. Hosea 10:9 Or there a stand was taken

But didn’t my words and my statutes that I commanded my servants the prophets overtake your ancestors?’”

So the people repented and said, “As the Lord of Armies decided to deal with us for our ways and our deeds, so he has dealt with us.”(A)

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But did not my words(A) and my decrees, which I commanded my servants the prophets, overtake your ancestors?(B)

“Then they repented and said, ‘The Lord Almighty has done to us what our ways and practices deserve,(C) just as he determined to do.’”(D)

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