Psalms 31:13

Bible in Basic English (1941)

False statements against me have come to my ears; fear was on every side: they were talking together against me, designing to take away my life.

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  • Jer 20:10 : 10 For numbers of them say evil secretly in my hearing (there is fear on every side): they say, Come, let us give witness against him; all my nearest friends, who are watching for my fall, say, It may be that he will be taken by deceit, and we will get the better of him and give him punishment.
  • Matt 27:1 : 1 Now when it was morning, all the chief priests and those in authority took thought together with the purpose of putting Jesus to death.
  • Lam 2:22 : 22 As in the day of a holy meeting you have made fears come round me on every side, and no one got away or was kept safe in the day of the Lord's wrath: those who were folded in my arms, whom I took care of, have been sent to their destruction by my hater.
  • 2 Sam 17:1-4 : 1 Then Ahithophel said to Absalom, Let me take out twelve thousand men and this very night I will go after David: 2 And I will come up with him when he is tired and feeble, and make him full of fear: and all the people with him will go in flight; and I will make an attack on the king only: 3 And I will make all the people come back to you as a bride comes back to her husband: it is the life of only one man you are going after; so all the people will be at peace. 4 And the saying was pleasing to Absalom and to the responsible men of Israel.
  • Ps 55:10 : 10 By day and night they go round the town, on the walls; trouble and sorrow are in the heart of it.
  • Ps 56:1-3 : 1 <To the chief music-maker; put to Jonath elem rehokim. Of David. Michtam. When the Philistines took him in Gath.> Have mercy on me, O God, for man is attempting my destruction; every day he makes cruel attacks against me. 2 My haters are ever ready to put an end to me; great numbers are lifting themselves up against me. 3 In the time of my fear, I will have faith in you.
  • Ps 57:4 : 4 My soul is among lions; I am stretched out among those who are on fire, even the sons of men, whose teeth are spears and arrows, and whose tongue is a sharp sword.
  • Ps 101:5 : 5 I will put to death anyone who says evil of his neighbour secretly; the man with a high look and a heart of pride is disgusting to me.
  • Jer 6:25 : 25 Go not out into the field or by the way; for there is the sword of the attacker, and fear on every side.
  • Jer 11:19 : 19 But I was like a gentle lamb taken to be put to death; I had no thought that they were designing evil against me, saying, Come and let us make trouble his food, cutting him off from the land of the living, so that there may be no more memory of his name.
  • Jer 20:3-4 : 3 Then on the day after, Pashhur let Jeremiah loose. Then Jeremiah said to him, The Lord has given you the name of Magor-missabib (Cause-of-fear-on-every-side), not Pashhur. 4 For the Lord has said, See, I will make you a cause of fear to yourself and to all your friends: they will come to their death by the sword of their haters, and your eyes will see it: and I will give all Judah into the hands of the king of Babylon, and he will take them away prisoners into Babylon and put them to the sword.
  • Matt 26:3-4 : 3 Then the chief priests and the rulers of the people came together in the house of the high priest, who was named Caiaphas. 4 And they made designs together to take Jesus by some trick, and put him to death.
  • Matt 26:59 : 59 Now the chief priests and all the Sanhedrin were looking for false witness against Jesus, so that they might put him to death;
  • 1 Sam 19:10-17 : 10 And Saul would have sent his spear through him, pinning him to the wall, but he got away and the spear went into the wall: and that night David went in flight and got away. 11 Then in that night Saul sent men to David's house to keep watch on him so as to put him to death in the morning: and David's wife Michal said to him, If you do not go away to a safe place tonight you will be put to death in the morning. 12 So Michal let David down through the window, and he went in flight and got away. 13 Then Michal took the image and put it in the bed, with a cushion of goat's hair at its head, and she put clothing over it. 14 And when Saul sent men to take David, she said, He is ill. 15 And Saul sent his men to see David, saying, Do not come back without him, take him in his bed, so that I may put him to death. 16 And when the men came in, there was the image in the bed, with the cushion of goat's hair at its head 17 And Saul said to Michal, why have you been false to me, letting my hater go and get safely away? And in answer Michal said to Saul, He said to me, Let me go, or I will put you to death.
  • 1 Sam 20:33 : 33 And Saul, pointing his spear at him, made an attempt to give him a wound: from which it was clear to Jonathan that his father's purpose was to put David to death.
  • 1 Sam 22:8-9 : 8 That all of you have made designs against me, and not one of you gave me word when my son made an agreement with the son of Jesse, and not one of you has pity for me or has made my eyes open to the fact that my servant has been moved by my son against me, as at this day? 9 Then Doeg, the Edomite, who was by the side of the servants of Saul, in answer said, I saw the son of Jesse coming to Nob, to Ahimelech, the son of Ahitub. 10 And he got directions from the Lord for him, and gave him food, and put in his hand the sword of Goliath the Philistine.
  • 1 Sam 23:19-20 : 19 Then the Ziphites came up to Gibeah to see Saul, and said, Is not David living secretly among us in the strong places in Horesh, in the hill of Hachilah to the south of the waste land? 20 So now, O king, have your soul's desire and come down, and we, for our part, will give him up into the king's hands.
  • 1 Sam 24:9 : 9 And after that David came out of the hollow rock, and crying after Saul said, My lord the king. And when Saul gave a look back, David went down on his face and gave him honour.
  • Luke 23:1-2 : 1 And they all went and took him before Pilate. 2 And they made statements against him, saying, This man has to our knowledge been teaching our nation to do wrong, and not to make payment of taxes to Caesar, even saying that he himself is Christ, a king.
  • Luke 23:5 : 5 But they became more violent than before, saying, He has made trouble among the people, teaching through all Judaea from Galilee to this place.

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  • Jer 20:10-11
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    10 For numbers of them say evil secretly in my hearing (there is fear on every side): they say, Come, let us give witness against him; all my nearest friends, who are watching for my fall, say, It may be that he will be taken by deceit, and we will get the better of him and give him punishment.

    11 But the Lord is with me as a great one, greatly to be feared: so my attackers will have a fall, and they will not overcome me: they will be greatly shamed, because they have not done wisely, even with an unending shame, kept in memory for ever.

  • Ps 31:10-12
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    10 My life goes on in sorrow, and my years in weeping; my strength is almost gone because of my sin, and my bones are wasted away.

    11 Because of all those who are against me, I have become a word of shame to my neighbours; a cause of shaking the head and a fear to my friends: those who saw me in the street went in flight from me.

    12 I have gone from men's minds and memory like a dead man; I am like a broken vessel.

  • Ps 71:10
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    10 For my haters are waiting secretly for me; and those who are watching for my soul are banded together in their evil designs,

  • Ps 41:7
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    7 All my haters are talking secretly together against me; they are designing my downfall.

  • Ps 31:14-15
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    14 But I had faith in you, O Lord; I said, You are my God.

    15 The chances of my life are in your hand; take me out of the hands of my haters, and of those who go after me.

  • Ps 38:12
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    12 Those who have a desire to take my life put nets for me; those who are designing my destruction say evil things against me, all the day their minds are full of deceit.

  • Ps 55:3-4
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    3 I am troubled because of the voice of the cruel ones, because of the loud cry of the evil-doers; for they put a weight of evil on me, and they are cruel in their hate for me.

    4 My heart is deeply wounded, and the fear of death has come on me.

  • Ps 35:15
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    15 But they took pleasure in my trouble, and came together, yes, low persons came together against me without my knowledge; they never came to an end of wounding me.

  • Jer 11:19
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    19 But I was like a gentle lamb taken to be put to death; I had no thought that they were designing evil against me, saying, Come and let us make trouble his food, cutting him off from the land of the living, so that there may be no more memory of his name.

  • Job 16:10
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    10 Their mouths are open wide against me; the blows of his bitter words are falling on my face; all of them come together in a mass against me.

  • Ps 41:5
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    5 My haters say evil against me, When will he be dead, and his name come to an end?

  • Ps 56:5-6
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    5 Every day they make wrong use of my words; all their thoughts are against me for evil.

    6 They come together, they are waiting in secret places, they take note of my steps, they are waiting for my soul.

  • Ps 13:4
    75%

    4 And he who is against me may not say, I have overcome him; and those who are troubling me may not be glad when I am moved.

  • Ps 38:16
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    16 I said, Let them not be glad over me; when my foot is moved, let them not be lifted up with pride against me.

  • Ps 59:3
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    3 For see, they are watching in secret for my soul; the strong have come together against me? but not because of my sin, or my evil-doing, O Lord.

  • Ps 25:19
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    19 See how those who are against me are increased, for bitter is their hate of me.

  • Lam 3:61-62
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    61 Their bitter words have come to your ears, O Lord, and all their designs against me;

    62 The lips of those who came up against me, and their thoughts against me all the day.

  • Ps 109:2-3
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    74%

    2 For the mouth of the sinner is open against me in deceit: his tongue has said false things against me.

    3 Words of hate are round about me; they have made war against me without cause.

  • Ps 22:13
    74%

    13 I saw their mouths wide open, like lions crying after food.

  • Jer 18:22-23
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    22 Let a cry for help go up from their houses, when you send an armed band on them suddenly: for they have made a hole in which to take me, and have put nets for my feet secretly.

    23 But you, Lord, have knowledge of all the designs which they have made against my life; let not their evil-doing be covered or their sin be washed away from before your eyes: but let it be a cause of falling before you: so do to them in the time of your wrath.

  • Ps 31:22
    74%

    22 And as for me, I said in my fear, I am cut off from before your eyes; but you gave ear to the voice of my prayer, when my cry went up to you.

  • Lam 1:21
    73%

    21 Give ear to the voice of my grief; I have no comforter; all my haters have news of my troubles, they are glad because you have done it: let the day of fate come when they will be like me.

  • Ps 56:3
    73%

    3 In the time of my fear, I will have faith in you.

  • Ps 37:32
    73%

    32 The sinners are watching the upright man, desiring to put him to death.

  • Ps 3:1
    73%

    1 <A Psalm. Of David. When he went in flight from Absalom his son.> Lord, how greatly are they increased who make attacks on me! in great numbers they come against me.

  • Ps 27:12
    73%

    12 Do not give me into their hands, because false witnesses have come out against me, and men breathing destruction.

  • Job 31:34
    72%

    34 For fear of the great body of people, or for fear that families might make sport of me, so that I kept quiet, and did not go out of my door;

  • Job 3:25
    72%

    25 For I have a fear and it comes on me, and my heart is greatly troubled.

  • Ps 17:9
    72%

    9 From the evil-doers who are violent to me, and from those who are round me, desiring my death.

  • Ps 140:5
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    5 The men of pride have put secret cords for my feet; stretching nets in my way, so that they may take me with their tricks. (Selah.)

  • Job 31:29
    72%

    29 If I was glad at the trouble of my hater, and gave cries of joy when evil overtook him;

  • Ps 56:11
    72%

    11 In God have I put my hope, I will have no fear of what man may do to me.

  • Ps 64:1-2
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    1 <To the chief music-maker. A Psalm. Of David.> O God, let the voice of my grief come to your ear: keep my life from the fear of those who are against me.

    2 Keep me safe from the secret purpose of wrongdoers; from the band of the workers of evil;

  • Lam 3:11
    72%

    11 By him my ways have been turned on one side and I have been pulled in bits; he has made me waste.

  • Ps 54:3
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    3 For men who are going after me have come out against me, violent men are purposing to take my soul; they have not put God before their eyes. (Selah.)

  • Job 16:12
    72%

    12 I was in comfort, but I have been broken up by his hands; he has taken me by the neck, shaking me to bits; he has put me up as a mark for his arrows.

  • Ps 86:14
    72%

    14 O God, men of pride have come up against me, and the army of violent men would take my life; they have not put you before them.

  • Ps 143:9
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    9 O Lord, take me out of the hands of my haters; my soul is waiting for you.

  • Ps 102:8
    72%

    8 My haters say evil of me all day; those who are violent against me make use of my name as a curse.

  • Job 30:13
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    13 They have made waste my roads, with a view to my destruction; his bowmen come round about me;