Psalms 31:13

American Standard Version (1901)

For I have heard the defaming of many, Terror on every side: While they took counsel together against me, they devised to take away my life.

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  • Jer 20:10 : 10 For I have heard the defaming of many, terror on every side. Denounce, and we will denounce him, [say] all my familiar friends, they that watch for my fall; peradventure he will be persuaded, and we shall prevail against him, and we shall take our revenge on him.
  • Matt 27:1 : 1 Now when morning was come, all the chief priests and the elders of the people took counsel against Jesus to put him to death:
  • Lam 2:22 : 22 Thou hast called, as in the day of a solemn assembly, my terrors on every side; And there was none that escaped or remained in the day of Jehovah's anger: Those that I have dandled and brought up hath mine enemy consumed.
  • 2 Sam 17:1-4 : 1 Moreover Ahithophel said unto Absalom, Let me now choose out twelve thousand men, and I will arise and pursue after David this night: 2 and I will come upon him while he is weary and weak-handed, and will make him afraid; and all the people that are with him shall flee; and I will smite the king only; 3 and I will bring back all the people unto thee: the man whom thou seekest is as if all returned: [so] all the people shall be in peace. 4 And the saying pleased Absalom well, and all the elders of Israel.
  • Ps 55:10 : 10 Day and night they go about it upon the walls thereof: Iniquity also and mischief are in the midst of it.
  • Ps 56:1-3 : 1 [For the Chief Musician; set to Jonath elem rehokim. [A Psalm] of David. Michtam; when the Philistines took him in Gath]. Be merciful unto me, O God; For man would swallow me up: All the day long he fighting oppresseth me. 2 Mine enemies would swallow me up all the day long; For they are many that fight proudly against me. 3 What time I am afraid, I will put my trust in thee.
  • Ps 57:4 : 4 My soul is among lions; I lie among them that are set on fire, Even the sons of men, whose teeth are spears and arrows, And their tongue a sharp sword.
  • Ps 101:5 : 5 Whoso privily slandereth his neighbor, him will I destroy: Him that hath a high look and a proud heart will I not suffer.
  • Jer 6:25 : 25 Go not forth into the field, nor walk by the way; for the sword of the enemy, [and] terror, are on every side.
  • Jer 11:19 : 19 But I was like a gentle lamb that is led to the slaughter; and I knew not that they had devised devices against me, [saying], Let us destroy the tree with the fruit thereof, and let us cut him off from the land of the living, that his name may be no more remembered.
  • Jer 20:3-4 : 3 And it came to pass on the morrow, that Pashhur brought forth Jeremiah out of the stocks. Then said Jeremiah unto him, Jehovah hath not called thy name Pashhur, but Magor-missabib. 4 For thus saith Jehovah, Behold, I will make thee a terror to thyself, and to all thy friends; and they shall fall by the sword of their enemies, and thine eyes shall behold it; and I will give all Judah into the hand of the king of Babylon, and he shall carry them captive to Babylon, and shall slay them with the sword.
  • Matt 26:3-4 : 3 Then were gathered together the chief priests, and the elders of the people, unto the court of the high priest, who was called Caiaphas; 4 and they took counsel together that they might take Jesus by subtlety, and kill him.
  • Matt 26:59 : 59 Now the chief priests and the whole council sought false witness against Jesus, that they might put him to death;
  • 1 Sam 19:10-17 : 10 And Saul sought to smite David even to the wall with the spear; but he slipped away out of Saul's presence, and he smote the spear into the wall: and David fled, and escaped that night. 11 And Saul sent messengers unto David's house, to watch him, and to slay him in the morning: and Michal, David's wife, told him, saying, If thou save not thy life to-night, to-morrow thou wilt be slain. 12 So Michal let David down through the window: and he went, and fled, and escaped. 13 And Michal took the teraphim, and laid it in the bed, and put a pillow of goats' [hair] at the head thereof, and covered it with the clothes. 14 And when Saul sent messengers to take David, she said, He is sick. 15 And Saul sent the messengers to see David, saying, Bring him up to me in the bed, that I may slay him. 16 And when the messengers came in, behold, the teraphim was in the bed, with the pillow of goats' [hair] at the head thereof. 17 And Saul said unto Michal, Why hast thou deceived me thus, and let mine enemy go, so that he is escaped? And Michal answered Saul, He said unto me, Let me go; why should I kill thee?
  • 1 Sam 20:33 : 33 And Saul cast his spear at him to smite him; whereby Jonathan knew that it was determined of his father to put David to death.
  • 1 Sam 22:8-9 : 8 that all of you have conspired against me, and there is none that discloseth to me when my son maketh a league with the son of Jesse, and there is none of you that is sorry for me, or discloseth unto me that my son hath stirred up my servant against me, to lie in wait, as at this day? 9 Then answered Doeg the Edomite, who stood by the servants of Saul, and said, I saw the son of Jesse coming to Nob, to Ahimelech the son of Ahitub. 10 And he inquired of Jehovah for him, and gave him victuals, and gave him the sword of Goliath the Philistine.
  • 1 Sam 23:19-20 : 19 Then came up the Ziphites to Saul to Gibeah, saying, Doth not David hide himself with us in the strongholds in the wood, in the hill of Hachilah, which is on the south of the desert? 20 Now therefore, O king, come down, according to all the desire of thy soul to come down; and our part shall be to deliver him up into the king's hand.
  • 1 Sam 24:9 : 9 And David said to Saul, Wherefore hearkenest thou to men's words, saying, Behold, David seeketh thy hurt?
  • Luke 23:1-2 : 1 And the whole company of them rose up, and brought him before Pilate. 2 And they began to accuse him, saying, We found this man perverting our nation, and forbidding to give tribute to Caesar, and saying that he himself is Christ a king.
  • Luke 23:5 : 5 But they were the more urgent, saying, He stirreth up the people, teaching throughout all Judaea, and beginning from Galilee even unto this place.

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  • Jer 20:10-11
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    10For I have heard the defaming of many, terror on every side. Denounce, and we will denounce him, [say] all my familiar friends, they that watch for my fall; peradventure he will be persuaded, and we shall prevail against him, and we shall take our revenge on him.

    11But Jehovah is with me as a mighty one [and] a terrible: therefore my persecutors shall stumble, and they shall not prevail; they shall be utterly put to shame, because they have not dealt wisely, even with an everlasting dishonor which shall never be forgotten.

  • Ps 31:10-12
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    10For my life is spent with sorrow, And my years with sighing: My strength faileth because of mine iniquity, And my bones are wasted away.

    11Because of all mine adversaries I am become a reproach, Yea, unto my neighbors exceedingly, And a fear to mine acquaintance: They that did see me without fled from me.

    12I am forgotten as a dead man out of mind: I am like a broken vessel.

  • Ps 71:10
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    10For mine enemies speak concerning me; And they that watch for my soul take counsel together,

  • Ps 41:7
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    7All that hate me whisper together against me; Against me do they devise my hurt.

  • Ps 31:14-15
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    14But I trusted in thee, O Jehovah: I said, Thou art my God.

    15My times are in thy hand: Deliver me from the hand of mine enemies, and from them that persecute me.

  • Ps 38:12
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    12They also that seek after my life lay snares [for me] ; And they that seek my hurt speak mischievous things, And meditate deceits all the day long.

  • Ps 55:3-4
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    3Because of the voice of the enemy, Because of the oppression of the wicked; For they cast iniquity upon me, And in anger they persecute me.

    4My heart is sore pained within me: And the terrors of death are fallen upon me.

  • Ps 35:15
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    15But in mine adversity they rejoiced, and gathered themselves together: The abjects gathered themselves together against me, and I knew [it] not; They did tear me, and ceased not:

  • Jer 11:19
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    19But I was like a gentle lamb that is led to the slaughter; and I knew not that they had devised devices against me, [saying], Let us destroy the tree with the fruit thereof, and let us cut him off from the land of the living, that his name may be no more remembered.

  • Job 16:10
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    10They have gaped upon me with their mouth; They have smitten me upon the cheek reproachfully: They gather themselves together against me.

  • Ps 41:5
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    5Mine enemies speak evil against me, [saying], When will he die, and his name perish?

  • Ps 56:5-6
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    5All the day long they wrest my words: All their thoughts are against me for evil.

    6They gather themselves together, they hide themselves, They mark my steps, Even as they have waited for my soul.

  • Ps 13:4
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    4Lest mine enemy say, I have prevailed against him; [Lest] mine adversaries rejoice when I am moved.

  • Ps 38:16
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    16For I said, Lest they rejoice over me: When my foot slippeth, they magnify themselves against me.

  • Ps 59:3
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    3For, lo, they lie in wait for my soul; The mighty gather themselves together against me: Not for my transgression, nor for my sin, O Jehovah.

  • Ps 25:19
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    19Consider mine enemies, for they are many; And they hate me with cruel hatred.

  • Lam 3:61-62
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    61Thou hast heard their reproach, O Jehovah, and all their devices against me,

    62The lips of those that rose up against me, and their device against me all the day.

  • Ps 109:2-3
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    2For the mouth of the wicked and the mouth of deceit have they opened against me: They have spoken unto me with a lying tongue.

    3They have compassed me about also with words of hatred, And fought against me without a cause.

  • Ps 22:13
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    13They gape upon me with their mouth, [As] a ravening and a roaring lion.

  • Jer 18:22-23
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    22Let a cry be heard from their houses, when thou shalt bring a troop suddenly upon them; for they have digged a pit to take me, and hid snares for my feet.

    23Yet, Jehovah, thou knowest all their counsel against me to slay me; forgive not their iniquity, neither blot out their sin from thy sight; but let them be overthrown before thee; deal thou with them in the time of thine anger.

  • Ps 31:22
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    22As for me, I said in my haste, I am cut off from before thine eyes: Nevertheless thou heardest the voice of my supplications When I cried unto thee.

  • Lam 1:21
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    21They have heard that I sigh; there is none to comfort me; all mine enemies have heard of my trouble; they are glad that thou hast done it: Thou wilt bring the day that thou hast proclaimed, and they shall be like unto me.

  • Ps 56:3
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    3What time I am afraid, I will put my trust in thee.

  • Ps 37:32
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    32The wicked watcheth the righteous, And seeketh to slay him.

  • Ps 3:1
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    1[A Psalm of David, when he fled from Absalom his son]. Jehovah, how are mine adversaries increased! Many are they that rise up against me.

  • Ps 27:12
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    12Deliver me not over unto the will of mine adversaries: For false witnesses are risen up against me, And such as breathe out cruelty.

  • Job 31:34
    72%

    34Because I feared the great multitude, And the contempt of families terrified me, So that I kept silence, and went not out of the door--

  • Job 3:25
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    25For the thing which I fear cometh upon me, And that which I am afraid of cometh unto me.

  • Ps 17:9
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    9From the wicked that oppress me, My deadly enemies, that compass me about.

  • Ps 140:5
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    5The proud have hid a snare for me, and cords; They have spread a net by the wayside; They have set gins for me. {{Selah

  • Job 31:29
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    29If I have rejoiced at the destruction of him that hated me, Or lifted up myself when evil found him;

  • Ps 56:11
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    11In God have I put my trust, I will not be afraid; What can man do unto me?

  • Ps 64:1-2
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    1[For the Chief Musician. A Psalm of David]. Hear my voice, O God, in my complaint: Preserve my life from fear of the enemy.

    2Hide me from the secret counsel of evil-doers, From the tumult of the workers of iniquity;

  • Lam 3:11
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    11He hath turned aside my ways, and pulled me in pieces; he hath made me desolate.

  • Ps 54:3
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    3For strangers are risen up against me, And violent men have sought after my soul: They have not set God before them. {{Selah

  • Job 16:12
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    12I was at ease, and he brake me asunder; Yea, he hath taken me by the neck, and dashed me to pieces: He hath also set me up for his mark.

  • Ps 86:14
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    14O God, the proud are risen up against me, And a company of violent men have sought after my soul, And have not set thee before them.

  • Ps 143:9
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    9Deliver me, O Jehovah, from mine enemies: I flee unto thee to hide me.

  • Ps 102:8
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    8Mine enemies reproach me all the day; They that are mad against me do curse by me.

  • Job 30:13
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    13They mar my path, They set forward my calamity, [Even] men that have no helper.