Psalms 62:3

Bible in Basic English (1941)

How long will you go on designing evil against a man? running against him as against a broken wall, which is on the point of falling?

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Referenced Verses

  • Ps 4:2 : 2 O you sons of men, how long will you go on turning my glory into shame? how long will you give your love to foolish things, going after what is false? (Selah.)
  • Ps 21:11 : 11 For their thoughts were bitter against you: they had an evil design in their minds, which they were not able to put into effect.
  • 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 82:2 : 2 How long will you go on judging falsely, having respect for the persons of evil-doers? (Selah.)
  • Ps 140:2 : 2 For their hearts are full of evil designs; and they are ever making ready causes of war.
  • Prov 1:22 : 22 How long, you simple ones, will foolish things be dear to you? and pride a delight to the haters of authority? how long will the foolish go on hating knowledge?
  • Exod 16:28 : 28 And the Lord said to Moses, How long will you go against my orders and my laws?
  • Jer 4:14 : 14 O Jerusalem, make your heart clean from evil, so that you may have salvation. How long are evil purposes to have a resting-place in you?
  • Hos 7:15 : 15 Though I have given training and strength to their arms, they have evil designs against me.
  • Matt 17:17 : 17 And Jesus, answering, said, O false and foolish generation, how long will I be with you? how long will I put up with you? let him come here to me.
  • 1 Sam 26:10 : 10 And David said, By the living Lord, the Lord will send destruction on him; the natural day of his death will come, or he will go into the fight and come to his end.
  • Exod 10:3 : 3 Then Moses and Aaron went in to Pharaoh, and said to him, This is what the Lord, the God of the Hebrews, says: How long will you be lifted up in your pride before me? let my people go so that they may give me worship.
  • Prov 6:9 : 9 How long will you be sleeping, O hater of work? when will you get up from your sleep?
  • Isa 30:13-14 : 13 This sin will be to you like a crack in a high wall, causing its fall suddenly and in a minute. 14 And he will let it be broken as a potter's vessel is broken: it will be smashed to bits without mercy; so that there will not be a bit in which one may take fire from the fireplace, or water from the spring.
  • Ps 73:18-20 : 18 You put their feet where there was danger of slipping, so that they go down into destruction. 19 How suddenly are they wasted! fears are the cause of their destruction. 20 As a dream when one is awake, they are ended; they are like an image gone out of mind when sleep is over.

Similar Verses (AI)

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  • Ps 62:4
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    4 Their only thought is to put him down from his place of honour; their delight is in deceit: blessing is in their mouths but cursing in their hearts. (Selah.)

  • Ps 21:11-12
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    11 For their thoughts were bitter against you: they had an evil design in their minds, which they were not able to put into effect.

    12 Their backs will be turned when you make ready the cords of your bow against their faces.

  • Ps 52:5
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    5 But God will put an end to you for ever; driving you out from your tent, uprooting you from the land of the living. (Selah.)

  • Ps 89:40-41
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    40 All his walls are broken down; you have given his strong towers to destruction.

    41 All those who come by take away his goods; he is laughed at by his neighbours.

  • Ps 140:2
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    2 For their hearts are full of evil designs; and they are ever making ready causes of war.

  • 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 64:7-8
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    7 But God sends out an arrow against them; suddenly they are wounded.

    8 The evil of their tongues is the cause of their fall; all those who see them are shaking their heads at them.

  • Ps 5:10
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    10 Send them to destruction, O Lord; let their evil designs be the cause of their fall; let them be forced out by all their sins; because they have gone against your authority.

  • Lam 3:60-62
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    60 You have seen all the evil rewards they have sent on me, and all their designs against me.

    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.

  • Nah 1:9-11
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    9 What are you designing against the Lord? he will put an end to it: his haters will not come up again a second time.

    10 For though they are like twisted thorns, and are overcome as with drink, they will come to destruction like stems of grass fully dry.

    11 One has gone out from you who is designing evil against the Lord, whose purposes are of no value.

  • Ps 55:10
    73%

    10 By day and night they go round the town, on the walls; trouble and sorrow are in the heart of it.

  • 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 37:14-15
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    14 The evil-doers have taken out their swords, their bows are bent; for crushing the poor, and to put to death those who are upright in their ways.

    15 But their swords will be turned into their hearts, and their bows will be broken.

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

  • Isa 30:13
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    13 This sin will be to you like a crack in a high wall, causing its fall suddenly and in a minute.

  • Ps 140:9
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    9 As for those who come round me, let their heads be covered by the evil of their lips.

  • Ps 83:3
    73%

    3 They have made wise designs against your people, talking together against those whom you keep in a secret place.

  • Ps 92:7
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    7 When the sinners come up like the grass, and all the workers of evil do well for themselves, it is so that their end may be eternal destruction.

  • Ezek 16:40
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    40 And they will get together a meeting against you, stoning you with stones and wounding you with their swords.

  • Ps 55:23
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    23 But you, O God, will send them down into the underworld; the cruel and the false will be cut off before half their days are ended; but I will have faith in you.

  • Ps 73:18
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    18 You put their feet where there was danger of slipping, so that they go down into destruction.

  • Ps 55:20
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    20 He has put out his hand against those who were at peace with him; he has not kept his agreement.

  • Ps 11:2
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    2 See, the bows of the evil-doers are bent, they make ready their arrows on the cord, so that they may send them secretly against the upright in heart.

  • Ps 64:3-4
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    3 Who make their tongues sharp like a sword, and whose arrows are pointed, even bitter words;

    4 So that in secret they may let loose their arrows at the upright, suddenly and unseen.

  • Ps 94:4
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    4 Words of pride come from their lips; all the workers of evil say great things of themselves.

  • Jer 20:10
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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.

  • Ps 37:32
    71%

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

  • Ezek 26:9
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    9 He will put up his engines of war against your walls, and your towers will be broken down by his axes.

  • Ps 13:2
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    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?

  • Ps 52:1-2
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    71%

    1 <To the chief music-maker. Maschil. Of David. When Doeg the Edomite came to Saul saying, David has come to the house of Ahimelech.> Why do you take pride in wrongdoing, lifting yourself up against the upright man all the day?

    2 Purposing destruction, using deceit; your tongue is like a sharp blade.

  • Ps 58:7
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    7 Let them be turned to liquid like the ever-flowing waters; let them be cut off like the grass by the way.

  • Prov 24:15
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    15 Do not keep a secret watch, O evil-doer, against the fields of the upright man, or send destruction on his resting-place:

  • Ps 57:6
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    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.)

  • 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.

  • Ps 28:3
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    3 Do not take me away with the sinners and the workers of evil, who say words of peace to their neighbours, but evil is in their hearts.

  • Ps 37:2
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    2 For they will quickly be cut down like grass, and become dry like the green plants.

  • Ps 35:20
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    20 For they do not say words of peace; in their deceit they are designing evil things against the quiet ones in the land.

  • Ps 83:5
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    5 For they have all come to an agreement; they are all joined together against you:

  • Ps 62:2
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    2 He only is my Rock and my salvation; he is my high tower; I will not be greatly moved.