Psalms 35:15

Bible in Basic English (1941)

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.

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  • Ps 7:2 : 2 So that he may not come rushing on my soul like a lion, wounding it, while there is no one to be my saviour.
  • Ps 22:16 : 16 Dogs have come round me: I am shut in by the band of evil-doers; they made wounds in my hands and feet.
  • Ps 35:8 : 8 Let destruction come on them without their knowledge; let them be taken themselves in their secret nets, falling into the same destruction.
  • Ps 35:25-26 : 25 Let them not say in their hearts, So we will have it: let them not say, We have put an end to him. 26 Let all those who take pleasure in my troubles be shamed and come to nothing: let those who are lifted up against me be covered with shame and have no honour.
  • Ps 38:17 : 17 My feet are near to falling, and my sorrow is ever before me.
  • Ps 41:8 : 8 They say, He has an evil disease, which will not let him go: and now that he is down he will not get up again.
  • 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 69:12 : 12 I am a cause of wonder to those in authority; a song to those who are given to strong drink.
  • Ps 71:10-11 : 10 For my haters are waiting secretly for me; and those who are watching for my soul are banded together in their evil designs, 11 Saying, God has given him up; go after him and take him, for he has no helper.
  • Prov 17:5 : 5 Whoever makes sport of the poor puts shame on his Maker; and he who is glad because of trouble will not go free from punishment.
  • Prov 24:17-18 : 17 Do not be glad at the fall of your hater, and let not your heart have joy at his downfall: 18 For fear that the Lord may see it, and it may be evil in his eyes, and his wrath may be turned away from him.
  • 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 27:27-30 : 27 Then the ruler's armed men took Jesus into the open square, and got all their band together. 28 And they took off his clothing, and put on him a red robe. 29 And they made a crown of thorns and put it on his head, and put a rod in his right hand, and they went down on their knees before him, and made sport of him, saying, Long life to the King of the Jews. 30 And they put shame on him, and gave him blows on the head with the rod.
  • Matt 27:39-44 : 39 And those who went by said bitter words to him, shaking their heads and saying, 40 You who would give the Temple to destruction and put it up again in three days, get yourself free: if you are the Son of God, come down from the cross. 41 In the same way, the chief priests, making sport of him, with the scribes and those in authority, said, 42 A saviour of others, he has no salvation for himself. If he is the King of Israel, let him now come down from the cross, and we will have faith in him. 43 He put his faith in God; let God be his saviour now, if he will have him; for he said, I am the Son of God. 44 And the thieves who were on the crosses said evil words to him.
  • Mark 14:65 : 65 And some put shame on him and, covering his face, gave him blows and said to him, Now say what is to come: and the captains took him and gave him blows with their hands.
  • Acts 17:5 : 5 But the Jews, being moved with envy, took with them certain low persons from among the common people, and getting together a great number of people, made an outcry in the town, attacking the house of Jason with the purpose of taking them out to the people.
  • 1 Cor 13:6 : 6 It takes no pleasure in wrongdoing, but has joy in what is true;
  • Job 16:9 : 9 I am broken by his wrath, and his hate has gone after me; he has made his teeth sharp against me: my haters are looking on me with cruel eyes;
  • Job 30:1-9 : 1 But now those who are younger than I make sport of me; those whose fathers I would not have put with the dogs of my flocks. 2 Of what use is the strength of their hands to me? all force is gone from them. 3 They are wasted for need of food, biting the dry earth; their only hope of life is in the waste land. 4 They are pulling off the salt leaves from the brushwood, and making a meal of roots. 5 They are sent out from among their townsmen, men are crying after them as thieves 6 They have to get a resting-place in the hollows of the valleys, in holes of the earth and rocks. 7 They make noises like asses among the brushwood; they get together under the thorns. 8 They are sons of shame, and of men without a name, who have been forced out of the land. 9 And now I have become their song, and I am a word of shame to them. 10 I am disgusting to them; they keep away from me, and put marks of shame on me. 11 For he has made loose the cord of my bow, and put me to shame; he has sent down my flag to the earth before me. 12 The lines of his men of war put themselves in order, and make high their ways of destruction against me:
  • Job 31:29 : 29 If I was glad at the trouble of my hater, and gave cries of joy when evil overtook him;

Similar Verses (AI)

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  • 16 Like men of deceit they put me to shame; the voice of their wrath was loud against me.

  • Job 16:9-10
    2 verses
    82%

    9 I am broken by his wrath, and his hate has gone after me; he has made his teeth sharp against me: my haters are looking on me with cruel eyes;

    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 35:24-26
    3 verses
    80%

    24 Be my judge, O Lord my God, in your righteousness; do not let them be glad over me.

    25 Let them not say in their hearts, So we will have it: let them not say, We have put an end to him.

    26 Let all those who take pleasure in my troubles be shamed and come to nothing: let those who are lifted up against me be covered with shame and have no honour.

  • Ps 35:11-14
    4 verses
    79%

    11 False witnesses got up: they put questions to me about crimes of which I had no knowledge.

    12 They gave me back evil for good, troubling my soul.

    13 But as for me, when they were ill I put on the clothing of sorrow: I went without food and was sad, and my prayer came back again to my heart.

    14 My behaviour was as if it had been my friend or my brother: I was bent low in grief like one whose mother is dead.

  • Job 19:18-19
    2 verses
    78%

    18 Even young children have no respect for me; when I get up their backs are turned on me.

    19 All the men of my circle keep away from me; and those dear to me are turned against me.

  • 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.

  • 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.

  • Ps 41:7-9
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    77%

    7 All my haters are talking secretly together against me; they are designing my downfall.

    8 They say, He has an evil disease, which will not let him go: and now that he is down he will not get up again.

    9 Even my dearest friend, in whom I had faith, who took bread with me, is turned against me.

  • 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.

  • 12 For it was not my hater who said evil of me; that would have been no grief to me; it was not one outside the number of my friends who made himself strong against me, or I would have kept myself from him in a secret place;

  • 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.

  • 21 Their mouths were open wide against me, and they said, Aha, aha, our eyes have seen it.

  • 19 Do not let my haters be glad over me falsely; let not those who are against me without cause make sport of me.

  • 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 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 56:5-6
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    76%

    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.

  • 7 I am laughed at by all those who see me: pushing out their lips and shaking their heads they say,

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

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

  • 13 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.

  • Job 30:10-13
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    75%

    10 I am disgusting to them; they keep away from me, and put marks of shame on me.

    11 For he has made loose the cord of my bow, and put me to shame; he has sent down my flag to the earth before me.

    12 The lines of his men of war put themselves in order, and make high their ways of destruction against me:

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

  • 25 As for me, they make sport of me; shaking their heads when they see me.

  • 16 Dogs have come round me: I am shut in by the band of evil-doers; they made wounds in my hands and feet.

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

  • 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.

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

  • 2 When evil-doers, even my haters, came on me to put an end to me, they were broken and put to shame.

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

  • 20 My friends make sport of me; to God my eyes are weeping,

  • 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.

  • 19 But they are strong who have hate for me without cause: those who are against me falsely are increased in numbers.

  • 35 They have overcome me, you will say, and I have no pain; they gave me blows without my feeling them: when will I be awake from my wine? I will go after it again.

  • 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.

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

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

  • 14 I have become the sport of all the peoples; I am their song all the day.

  • 17 I did not take my seat among the band of those who are glad, and I had no joy; I kept by myself because of your hand; for you have made me full of wrath.