Psalms 38:16

Bible in Basic English (1941)

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

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Referenced Verses

  • Ps 94:18 : 18 If I say, My foot is slipping; your mercy, O Lord, is my support.
  • Deut 32:35 : 35 Punishment is mine and reward, at the time of the slipping of their feet: for the day of their downfall is near, sudden will be their fate.
  • Ps 13:3-4 : 3 Let my voice come before you, and give me an answer, O Lord my God; let your light be shining on me, so that the sleep of death may not overtake me; 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 35:24-26 : 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.

Similar Verses (AI)

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  • 17 My feet are near to falling, and my sorrow is ever before me.

  • 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 35:24-27
    4 verses
    78%

    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.

    27 Let those who are on my side give cries of joy; let them ever say, The Lord be praised, for he has pleasure in the peace of his servant.

  • 36 You have made my steps wide under me, so that my feet are kept from slipping.

  • 2 But as for me, my feet had almost gone from under me; I was near to slipping;

  • 15 In you, O Lord, is my hope: you will give me an answer, O Lord, my God.

  • 37 You have made my steps wide under me, so that my feet make no slip.

  • 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.

  • 18 If I say, My foot is slipping; your mercy, O Lord, is my support.

  • 11 Let not the foot of pride come against me, or the hand of the evil-doers put me out of my place.

  • 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.

  • 38 I will give them wounds, so that they are not able to get up: they are stretched under my feet.

  • Ps 17:5-6
    2 verses
    75%

    5 I have kept my feet in your ways, my steps have not been turned away.

    6 My cry has gone up to you, for you will give me an answer, O God: let your ear be turned to me, and give attention to my words.

  • 5 If you make yourselves great against me, using my punishment as an argument against me,

  • 6 They have made ready a net for my steps; my soul is bent down; they have made a great hole before me, and have gone down into it themselves. (Selah.)

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

  • Ps 31:13-14
    2 verses
    75%

    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.

    14 But I had faith in you, O Lord; I said, You are my God.

  • 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 1:21-22
    2 verses
    75%

    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.

    22 Let all their evil-doing come before you; do to them as you have done to me for all my sins: for loud is the sound of my grief, and the strength of my heart is gone.

  • 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.

  • 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.

  • 5 What cause have I for fear in the days of evil, when the evil-doing of those who are working for my downfall is round about me?

  • Job 30:12-13
    2 verses
    74%

    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;

  • 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.

  • 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.

  • 1 <Of David.> O Lord, be my judge, for my behaviour has been upright: I have put my faith in the Lord, I am not in danger of slipping.

  • 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.)

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

  • 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.

  • 18 They came on me in the day of my trouble; but the Lord was my support.

  • 8 You have taken my soul from the power of death, keeping my eyes from weeping, and my feet from falling.

  • 15 My eyes are turned to the Lord at all times; for he will take my feet out of the net.

  • 14 Let those who go after my soul for its destruction have shame and trouble together; let them be turned back and made foolish who take pleasure in my trouble.

  • 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;

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

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

  • 13 I have been hard pushed by you, so that I might have a fall: but the Lord was my helper.

  • 19 They came on me in the day of my trouble: but the Lord was my support.

  • 3 When my spirit is overcome, your eyes are on my goings; nets have been secretly placed in the way in which I go.

  • 8 Make me free from all my sins; do not let me be shamed by the man of evil behaviour.

  • 10 But you, O Lord, have mercy on me, lifting me up, so that I may give them their punishment.

  • 1 <Michtam. Of David.> Keep me safe, O God: for in you I have put my faith.

  • 12 For unnumbered evils are round about me; my sins have overtaken me, so that I am bent down with their weight; they are more than the hairs of my head, my strength is gone because of them.