Psalms 55:13

Bible in Basic English (1941)

But it was you, my equal, my guide, my well-loved friend.

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  • 2 Sam 15:12 : 12 And Absalom sent for Ahithophel the Gilonite, one of David's helpers, from Giloh his town, while he was making the offerings. And the design against David became strong, for more and more people were joined to Absalom.
  • Ps 41:9 : 9 Even my dearest friend, in whom I had faith, who took bread with me, is turned against me.
  • Jer 9:4 : 4 Let everyone keep watch on his neighbour, and put no faith in any brother: for every brother will certainly be tricking his brother, and every neighbour will go about saying evil.
  • Mic 7:5 : 5 Put no faith in a friend, do not let your hope be placed in a relation: keep watch on the doors of your mouth against her who is resting on your breast.
  • 2 Sam 16:23 : 23 In those days the opinions of Ahithophel were valued as highly as if through him a man might get direction from God; so were they valued by David as much as by Absalom.
  • Matt 26:47-50 : 47 And while he was still talking, Judas, one of the twelve, came, and with him a band armed with swords and sticks, from the chief priests and those in authority over the people. 48 Now the false one had given them a sign saying, The one to whom I give a kiss, that is he: take him. 49 And straight away he came to Jesus and said, Master! and gave him a kiss. 50 And Jesus said to him, Friend, do that for which you have come. Then they came and put hands on Jesus, and took him.
  • Mark 14:44-45 : 44 Now he who had been false to him had given them a sign, saying, The one to whom I give a kiss, that is he; take him, and get him away safely. 45 And when he had come, he went straight to him and said, Master; and gave him a kiss.
  • Luke 22:21 : 21 But the hand of him who is false to me is with me at the table.
  • Luke 22:47-48 : 47 And while he was saying these words, there came a band of people, and Judas, one of the twelve, was in front of them, and he came near to Jesus to give him a kiss. 48 But Jesus said to him, Judas, will you be false to the Son of man with a kiss?
  • John 19:13 : 13 So when these words came to Pilate's ear, he took Jesus out, seating himself in the judge's seat in a place named in Hebrew, Gabbatha, or the Stone Floor.

Similar Verses (AI)

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  • 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;

  • 14 We had loving talk together, and went to the house of God in company.

  • Ps 41:9-11
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    9 Even my dearest friend, in whom I had faith, who took bread with me, is turned against me.

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

    11 By this I see that you have pleasure in me, because my hater does not overcome me.

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

  • Job 19:13-14
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    13 He has taken my brothers far away from me; they have seen my fate and have become strange to me.

    14 My relations and my near friends have given me up, and those living in my house have put me out of their minds.

  • Ps 35:14-15
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    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.

    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 You have sent my friends and lovers far from me; I am gone from the memory of those who are dear to 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.

  • 3 Ten times now you have made sport of me; it gives you no sense of shame to do me wrong.

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

  • 21 These things have you done, and I said nothing; it seemed to you that I was such a one as yourself; but I will make a protest against you, and put them in order before your eyes.

  • 3 Is it on such a one as this that your eyes are fixed, with the purpose of judging him?

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

  • 3 Do this, my son, and make yourself free, because you have come into the power of your neighbour; go without waiting, and make a strong request to your neighbour.

  • 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.

  • 26 For you put bitter things on record against me, and send punishment on me for the sins of my early years;

  • 3 Lord, what is man, that you keep him in mind? or the son of man that you take him into account?

  • 3 You keep watch over my steps and my sleep, and have knowledge of all my ways.

  • 6 And if anyone says to him, What are these wounds between your hands? then he will say, Those with which I was wounded in the house of my friends.

  • 8 You have sent my friends far away from me; you have made me a disgusting thing in their eyes: I am shut up, and not able to come out.

  • 19 You have seen my shame, how I was laughed at and made low; my haters are all before you.

  • 8 He who takes up my cause is near; who will go to law with me? let us come together before the judge: who is against me? let him come near to me.

  • 13 May the Lord be judge between me and you, and may the Lord give me my rights against you, but my hand will never be lifted up against you.

  • Job 16:7-8
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    7 But now he has overcome me with weariness and fear, and I am in the grip of all my trouble.

    8 It has come up as a witness against me, and the wasting of my flesh makes answer to my face.

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

  • 2 You are the God of my strength; why have you put me from you? why do I go in sorrow because of the attacks of my haters?

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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;

  • Job 6:13-14
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    13 I have no help in myself, and wisdom is completely gone from me.

    14 He whose heart is shut against his friend has given up the fear of the Ruler of all.

  • 17 Iron makes iron sharp; so a man makes sharp his friend.

  • 11 Are the comforts of God not enough for you, and the gentle word which was said to you?

  • 21 So that he may give decision for a man in his cause with God, and between a son of man and his neighbour.

  • 27 Truly, you are such as would give up the child of a dead man to his creditors, and would make a profit out of your friend.

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

  • 4 Have you knowledge of this from early times, when man was placed on the earth,

  • 32 For he is not a man as I am, that I might give him an answer, that we might come together before a judge.

  • 6 That you take note of my sin, searching after my wrongdoing,

  • 16 As for me, I have not said; Let the day of trouble come to them quickly; and I have not been hoping for the death-giving day; you have knowledge of what came from my lips; it was open before you.

  • 13 So that you are turning your spirit against God, and letting such words go out of your mouth?

  • 13 But you kept these things in the secret of your heart; I am certain this was in your thoughts:

  • 20 Only two things do not do to me, then I will come before your face:

  • 4 Will you not, from this time, make your prayer to me, crying, My father, you are the friend of my early years?

  • 6 He has made me a word of shame to the peoples; I have become a mark for their sport.

  • 9 Will it be good for you to be searched out by him, or have you the thought that he may be guided into error like a man?

  • 3 But I have a mind as well as you; I am equal to you: yes, who has not knowledge of such things as these?