Psalms 41:5

Bible in Basic English (1941)

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

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Referenced Verses

  • Job 18:17 : 17 His memory is gone from the earth, and in the open country there is no knowledge of his name.
  • Job 20:7 : 7 Like the waste from his body he comes to an end for ever: those who have seen him say, Where is he?
  • Ps 22:6-8 : 6 But I am a worm and not a man; cursed by men, and looked down on by the people. 7 I am laughed at by all those who see me: pushing out their lips and shaking their heads they say, 8 He put his faith in the Lord; let the Lord be his saviour now: let the Lord be his saviour, because he had delight in him.
  • Ps 38:12 : 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 102:8 : 8 My haters say evil of me all day; those who are violent against me make use of my name as a curse.
  • Prov 10:7 : 7 The memory of the upright is a blessing, but the name of the evil-doer will be turned to dust.

Similar Verses (AI)

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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 41:6-9
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    6 If one comes to see me, deceit is in his heart; he keeps a store of evil, which he makes public in every place.

    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.

  • 20 For they go against you with evil designs, and your haters make sport of your name.

  • 20 Let this be the reward given to my haters from the Lord, and to those who say evil of my soul.

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

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

  • 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 38:19-20
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    19 But they are strong who have hate for me without cause: those who are against me falsely are increased in numbers.

    20 They give me back evil for good; they are my haters because I go after the thing which is right.

  • 2 How long is my soul to be in doubt, with sorrow in my heart all the day? how long will he who is against me be given power over me?

  • Lam 1:21-22
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    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.

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    4 If I have given back evil to him who did evil to me, or have taken anything from him who was against me without cause;

    5 Let my hater go after my soul and take it; let my life be crushed to the earth, and my honour into the dust. (Selah.)

  • 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.

  • 7 Let my hater be like the evil man, and let him who comes against me be as the sinner.

  • 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.

  • 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.

  • 2 My haters are ever ready to put an end to me; great numbers are lifting themselves up against me.

  • 10 The cruel words of my haters are like a crushing of my bones; when they say to me every day, Where is your God?

  • Job 16:9-10
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    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.

  • 13 Let those who say evil against my soul be overcome and put to shame; let my haters be made low and have no honour.

  • 19 Do not let my haters be glad over me falsely; let not those who are against me without cause make sport 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 The evil man has gone after my soul; my life is crushed down to the earth: he has put me in the dark, like those who have long been dead.

  • 10 O God, how long will those who are against us say cruel things? will the hater go on looking down on your name for ever?

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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.

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    3 When my haters are turned back, they will be broken and overcome before you.

  • 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.

  • 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.

  • 10 See, he is looking for something against me; in his eyes I am as one of his haters;

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    7 My eyes are wasting away with trouble; they are becoming old because of all those who are against me.

  • 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.

  • 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;

  • 5 Let the evil works of my haters come back on them again; let them be cut off by your good faith.

  • 11 My eyes have seen trouble come on my haters; my ears have news of the fate of the evil-doers who have come up against me.

  • 11 His wrath is burning against me, and I am to him as one of his haters.

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

  • 9 As for those who come round me, let their heads be covered by the evil of their lips.

  • 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.

  • 24 Why is your face veiled from me, as if I was numbered among your haters?

  • 4 I said, Lord, have mercy on me; make my soul well, because my faith is in you.

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    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.