1 Samuel 25:33
Modern Translations
New International Version
May you be blessed for your good judgment and for keeping me from bloodshed this day and from avenging myself with my own hands.

New Living Translation
Thank God for your good sense! Bless you for keeping me from murder and from carrying out vengeance with my own hands.

English Standard Version
Blessed be your discretion, and blessed be you, who have kept me this day from bloodguilt and from working salvation with my own hand!

Berean Study Bible
Blessed is your discernment, and blessed are you, because today you kept me from bloodshed and from avenging myself by my own hand.

New American Standard Bible
and blessed be your discernment, and blessed be you, who have kept me this day from bloodshed and from avenging myself by my own hand.

NASB 1995
and blessed be your discernment, and blessed be you, who have kept me this day from bloodshed and from avenging myself by my own hand.

NASB 1977
and blessed be your discernment, and blessed be you, who have kept me this day from bloodshed, and from avenging myself by my own hand.

Amplified Bible
And blessed be your discretion and discernment, and blessed be you, who has kept me from bloodshed this day and from avenging myself by my own hand.

Christian Standard Bible
May your discernment be blessed, and may you be blessed. Today you kept me from participating in bloodshed and avenging myself by my own hand.

Holman Christian Standard Bible
Your discernment is blessed, and you are blessed. Today you kept me from participating in bloodshed and avenging myself by my own hand.

Contemporary English Version
And you should also be praised. Your good sense kept me from taking revenge and killing innocent people.

Good News Translation
Thank God for your good sense and for what you have done today in keeping me from the crime of murder and from taking my own revenge.

GOD'S WORD® Translation
May your good judgment be blessed. Also, may you be blessed for keeping me from slaughtering people today and from getting a victory by my own efforts.

International Standard Version
Blessed be your good judgment, and blessed be you, who today stopped me from shedding blood and delivering myself by my own actions.

NET Bible
Praised be your good judgment! May you yourself be rewarded for having prevented me this day from shedding blood and taking matters into my own hands!
Classic Translations
King James Bible
And blessed be thy advice, and blessed be thou, which hast kept me this day from coming to shed blood, and from avenging myself with mine own hand.

New King James Version
And blessed is your advice and blessed are you, because you have kept me this day from coming to bloodshed and from avenging myself with my own hand.

King James 2000 Bible
And blessed be your advice, and blessed be you, who has kept me this day from coming to shed blood, and from avenging myself with my own hand.

New Heart English Bible
Blessed is your discretion, and blessed are you, that have kept me this day from blood guiltiness, and from avenging myself with my own hand.

World English Bible
Blessed is your discretion, and blessed are you, that have kept me this day from blood guiltiness, and from avenging myself with my own hand.

American King James Version
And blessed be your advice, and blessed be you, which have kept me this day from coming to shed blood, and from avenging myself with my own hand.

American Standard Version
and blessed be thy discretion, and blessed be thou, that hast kept me this day from bloodguiltiness, and from avenging myself with mine own hand.

A Faithful Version
And blessed is your advice, and blessed are you who have kept me from coming to shed blood today, and from avenging myself with my own hand.

Darby Bible Translation
And blessed be thy discernment, and blessed be thou, who hast kept me this day from coming with bloodshed, and from avenging myself with mine own hand.

English Revised Version
and blessed be thy wisdom, and blessed be thou, which hast kept me this day from bloodguiltiness, and from avenging myself with mine own hand.

Webster's Bible Translation
And blessed be thy advice, and blessed be thou, who hast kept me this day from coming to shed blood, and from avenging myself with my own hand.

Early Modern
Geneva Bible of 1587
And blessed be thy counsel, and blessed be thou, which hast kept me this day fro coming to shed blood, and that mine hand hath not saued me.

Bishops' Bible of 1568
Blessed is thy saying, and blessed art thou which hast kept me this day from comming to shed blood, & from auengeing my selfe with myne owne hande.

Coverdale Bible of 1535
and blessed be thy speach, and blessed be thou, which hast kepte me backe this daye, that I am not come agaynst bloude, to auenge me with myne awne hande.
Literal Translations
Literal Standard Version
and blessed [is] your discretion, and blessed [are] you in that you have restrained me this day from coming in with blood, and to restrain my hand to myself.

Young's Literal Translation
and blessed is thy discretion, and blessed art thou in that thou hast restrained me this day from coming in with blood, and to restrain my hand to myself.

Smith's Literal Translation
And blessed thy discernment, and blessed thou who finished me this day from coming for bloods, and my hand saving for me.

Catholic Translations
Douay-Rheims Bible
And blessed be thou, who hast kept me to day, from coming to blood, and revenging me with my own hand.

Catholic Public Domain Version
And blessed are you, who prevented me today from going to blood, and from taking revenge for myself with my own hand.

Translations from Aramaic
Peshitta Holy Bible Translated
Blessed is your discernment! Blessed are you because you restrained me today to enter into blood and you saved my hands today from blood!

Lamsa Bible
And blessed be your advice, and blessed be you, who have kept me this day from coming to shed blood, and spared my hands this day from shedding blood.

OT Translations
JPS Tanakh 1917
and blessed be thy discretion, and blessed be thou, that hast kept me this day from bloodguiltiness, and from finding redress for myself with mine own hand.

Brenton Septuagint Translation
and blessed be thy conduct, and blessed be thou, who hast hindered me this very day from coming to shed blood, and from avenging myself.
















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