Psalms 71:10

American Standard Version (1901)

For mine enemies speak concerning me; And they that watch for my soul take counsel together,

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  • Ps 56:6 : 6 They gather themselves together, they hide themselves, They mark my steps, Even as they have waited for my soul.
  • Ps 83:3 : 3 Thy take crafty counsel against thy people, And consult together against thy hidden ones.
  • 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:
  • Prov 1:11 : 11 If they say, Come with us, Let us lay wait for blood; Let us lurk privily for the innocent without cause;
  • 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 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.
  • 1 Sam 19:11 : 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.
  • 2 Sam 17:1-9 : 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. 5 Then said Absalom, Call now Hushai the Archite also, and let us hear likewise what he saith. 6 And when Hushai was come to Absalom, Absalom spake unto him, saying, Ahithophel hath spoken after this manner: shall we do [after] his saying? if not, speak thou. 7 And Hushai said unto Absalom, The counsel that Ahithophel hath given this time is not good. 8 Hushai said moreover, Thou knowest thy father and his men, that they are mighty men, and they are chafed in their minds, as a bear robbed of her whelps in the field; and thy father is a man of war, and will not lodge with the people. 9 Behold, he is hid now in some pit, or in some [other] place: and it will come to pass, when some of them are fallen at the first, that whosoever heareth it will say, There is a slaughter among the people that follow Absalom. 10 And even he that is valiant, whose heart is as the heart of a lion, will utterly melt; for all Israel knoweth that thy father is a mighty man, and they that are with him are valiant men. 11 But I counsel that all Israel be gathered together unto thee, from Dan even to Beer-sheba, as the sand that is by the sea for multitude; and that thou go to battle in thine own person. 12 So shall we come upon him in some place where he shall be found, and we will light upon him as the dew falleth on the ground; and of him and of all the men that are with him we will not leave so much as one. 13 Moreover, if he be gotten into a city, then shall all Israel bring ropes to that city, and we will draw it into the river, until there be not one small stone found there. 14 And Absalom and all the men of Israel said, The counsel of Hushai the Archite is better than the counsel of Ahithophel. For Jehovah had ordained to defeat the good counsel of Ahithophel, to the intent that Jehovah might bring evil upon Absalom.
  • Ps 2:2 : 2 The kings of the earth set themselves, And the rulers take counsel together, Against Jehovah, and against his anointed, [saying] ,
  • Ps 10:9 : 9 He lurketh in secret as a lion in his covert; He lieth in wait to catch the poor: He doth catch the poor, when he draweth him in his net.
  • Ps 31:13 : 13 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.
  • Ps 37:32-33 : 32 The wicked watcheth the righteous, And seeketh to slay him. 33 Jehovah will not leave him in his hand, Nor condemn him when he is judged.

Similar Verses (AI)

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

  • 11Saying, God hath forsaken him: Pursue and take him; For there is none to deliver.

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

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

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

  • 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 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.

  • 13For 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.

  • 13Let them be put to shame [and] consumed that are adversaries to my soul; Let them be covered with reproach and dishonor that seek my hurt.

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

  • 9Cast me not off in the time of old age; Forsake me not when my strength faileth.

  • Job 16:9-10
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    9He hath torn me in his wrath, and persecuted me; He hath gnashed upon me with his teeth: Mine adversary sharpeneth his eyes upon me.

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

  • 20This is the reward of mine adversaries from Jehovah, And of them that speak evil against my soul.

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

  • 10Behold, he findeth occasions against me, He counteth me for his enemy:

  • 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.

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

  • 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.

  • 2Mine enemies would swallow me up all the day long; For they are many that fight proudly against me.

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    5Let the enemy pursue my soul, and overtake it; Yea, let him tread my life down to the earth, And lay my glory in the dust. {{Selah

  • 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.

  • Ps 38:19-20
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    19But mine enemies are lively, [and] are strong; And they that hate me wrongfully are multiplied.

    20They also that render evil for good Are adversaries unto me, because I follow the thing that is good.

  • 2Let them be put to shame and confounded That seek after my soul: Let them be turned backward and brought to dishonor That delight in my hurt.

  • 3For the enemy hath persecuted my soul; He hath smitten my life down to the ground: He hath made me to dwell in dark places, as those that have been long dead.

  • 20For they speak against thee wickedly, And thine enemies take [thy name] in vain.

  • 2How long shall I take counsel in my soul, Having sorrow in my heart all the day? How long shall mine enemy be exalted over me?

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

  • 7Let mine enemy be as the wicked, And let him that riseth up against me be as the unrighteous.

  • 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.

  • 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:

  • 10As with a sword in my bones, mine adversaries reproach me, While they continually say unto me, Where is thy God?

  • 18Draw nigh unto my soul, and redeem it: Ransom me because of mine enemies.

  • 2When evil-doers came upon me to eat up my flesh, [Even] mine adversaries and my foes, they stumbled and fell.

  • 19Let not them that are mine enemies wrongfully rejoice over me; Neither let them wink with the eye that hate me without a cause.

  • 6They have prepared a net for my steps; My soul is bowed down: They have digged a pit before me; They are fallen into the midst thereof themselves. {{Selah

  • 14Let them be put to shame and confounded together That seek after my soul to destroy it: Let them be turned backward and brought to dishonor That delight in my hurt.

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

  • 2For, lo, thine enemies make a tumult; And they that hate thee have lifted up the head.

  • 41Thou hast also made mine enemies turn their backs unto me, That I might cut off them that hate me.

  • 7Jehovah is on my side among them that help me: Therefore shall I see [my desire] upon them that hate me.

  • 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.

  • 11He hath also kindled his wrath against me, And he counteth me unto him as [one of] his adversaries.

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    7Mine eye wasteth away because of grief; It waxeth old because of all mine adversaries.

  • 4They that hate me without a cause are more than the hairs of my head: They that would cut me off, being mine enemies wrongfully, are mighty: That which I took not away I have to restore.

  • 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.

  • 4Let them be put to shame and brought to dishonor that seek after my soul: Let them be turned back and confounded that devise my hurt.