Psalms 38:13

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Those who seek my life lay snares for me; those who seek to harm me speak of ruin and plot deception all day long.

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  • Ps 39:2 : 2 I said, 'I will guard my ways so that I will not sin with my tongue; I will keep a muzzle on my mouth while the wicked are in my presence.'
  • Ps 39:9 : 9 Deliver me from all my transgressions; do not make me the scorn of fools.
  • Isa 53:7 : 7 He was oppressed and afflicted, yet he did not open his mouth; he was led like a lamb to the slaughter, and as a sheep before its shearers is silent, so he did not open his mouth.
  • 1 Pet 2:23 : 23 When He was reviled, He did not revile in return. When He suffered, He did not threaten, but entrusted Himself to the One who judges justly.
  • 2 Sam 16:10-12 : 10 But the king replied, "What does this have to do with you, sons of Zeruiah? If he is cursing because the Lord told him to curse David, who can ask, 'Why did you do this?'" 11 David then said to Abishai and all his servants, "Look, my own son who came from my own body is trying to take my life. How much more now this Benjamite! Leave him alone; let him curse, for the Lord has told him to. 12 Perhaps the Lord will look upon my affliction and repay me with good for the curses I am receiving today.

Similar Verses (AI)

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  • Ps 38:14-16
    3 verses
    90%

    14But I am like a deaf man who does not hear, and like a mute man who cannot open his mouth.

    15I have become like a man who does not hear and in whose mouth there are no rebukes.

    16For I wait for you, O LORD; you will answer, O Lord my God.

  • Ps 39:9-10
    2 verses
    79%

    9Deliver me from all my transgressions; do not make me the scorn of fools.

    10I am mute; I will not open my mouth because You have done this.

  • Ps 39:1-2
    2 verses
    78%

    1For the director of music, for Jeduthun, a psalm of David.

    2I said, 'I will guard my ways so that I will not sin with my tongue; I will keep a muzzle on my mouth while the wicked are in my presence.'

  • Isa 42:18-20
    3 verses
    74%

    18Hear, you deaf! Look, you blind, that you may see!

    19Who is blind but my servant, or deaf as my messenger whom I send? Who is as blind as my dedicated one, or as blind as the servant of the LORD?

    20You have seen many things, but you do not observe them; your ears are open, but you do not listen.

  • Ps 135:16-17
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    73%

    16They have mouths but cannot speak, eyes but cannot see.

    17They have ears but cannot hear; there is no breath in their mouths.

  • Ps 38:12
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    12My loved ones and friends stand aloof from my affliction, and my relatives stand far off.

  • Isa 50:5
    73%

    5The Sovereign LORD has opened my ear, and I was not rebellious; I did not turn away.

  • Ezek 33:22
    72%

    22Now the hand of the LORD had been upon me the evening before the fugitive came, and He opened my mouth. So, when the fugitive arrived in the morning, my mouth was opened, and I was no longer silent.

  • Dan 10:15
    72%

    15While he was speaking to me with these words, I bowed my face to the ground and became speechless.

  • Prov 31:8
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    8Speak up for those who cannot speak for themselves, for the rights of all who are destitute.

  • Ps 31:12-13
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    12I am a disgrace among all my enemies, and even more to my neighbors—a dread to my acquaintances; those who see me on the street flee from me.

    13I am forgotten like someone dead and gone; I have become like a broken vessel.

  • Isa 53:7
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    7He was oppressed and afflicted, yet he did not open his mouth; he was led like a lamb to the slaughter, and as a sheep before its shearers is silent, so he did not open his mouth.

  • Ps 22:13
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    13Many bulls surround me; strong ones of Bashan encircle me.

  • Ps 32:3
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    3When I kept silent, my bones wasted away through my groaning all day long.

  • Ps 38:8
    71%

    8For my loins are filled with burning, and there is no health in my body.

  • Matt 13:13
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    13That is why I speak to them in parables, because although they see, they do not see; and although they hear, they do not hear or understand.

  • Jer 11:19
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    19I was like a gentle lamb being led to the slaughter. I did not realize they had plotted against me, saying, ‘Let us destroy the tree with its fruit; let us cut him off from the land of the living, so that his name will never be remembered again.’

  • Job 29:10-11
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    10The voices of nobles quieted, and their tongues stuck to the roofs of their mouths.

    11For when the ear heard me, it called me blessed, and when the eye saw me, it gave testimony about me.

  • Job 13:19
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    19Who can contend with me? For now, if I am silent, I will perish.

  • Job 31:34
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    34because I so feared the crowd and the contempt of clans terrified me that I kept silent and would not go outside—

  • Isa 38:13-15
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    13I have calmed myself until morning; like a lion, He breaks all my bones. Day and night You bring me to an end.

    14I chirp like a swift or a crane, I moan like a dove. My eyes grow weak as I look to the heavens. Lord, I am oppressed; be my security.

    15What shall I say? He has spoken to me, and He has done this. I will walk humbly all my years because of this anguish of my soul.

  • Isa 32:3
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    3The eyes of those who see will no longer be closed, and the ears of those who hear will listen attentively.

  • Ezek 3:26
    69%

    26I will make your tongue stick to the roof of your mouth so that you will be silent and unable to rebuke them, for they are a rebellious house.

  • Job 32:14-16
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    69%

    14But Job has not directed his words against me, and I will not answer him with your arguments.

    15They are dismayed and have no more to say; words have left them.

    16Should I wait, now that they are not speaking and they stand there without replying any longer?

  • Isa 29:18
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    18On that day the deaf will hear the words of the scroll, and out of gloom and darkness the eyes of the blind will see.

  • Job 33:8
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    8Surely, you have spoken in my hearing, and I have heard your words.

  • Prov 5:13
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    13I did not listen to the voice of my teachers or incline my ear to my instructors.

  • Ps 115:6
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    6They have ears but cannot hear, noses but cannot smell.

  • Job 13:17
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    17Listen carefully to my words and let my declaration enter your ears.

  • Ps 88:4
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    4For my soul is filled with troubles, and my life draws near to Sheol.

  • Job 29:21
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    21People listened to me and waited, and they kept silent for my counsel.

  • Ezek 24:27
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    27On that day, your mouth will be opened to speak with the fugitive, and you will no longer be silent. You will be a sign to them, and they will know that I am the Lord.

  • Ps 73:22
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    22I was senseless and ignorant; I was like a beast before You.

  • Ps 55:12
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    12Destruction is in its midst; oppression and deceit do not leave its streets.

  • Job 30:20
    69%

    20I cry out to You, but You do not answer; I stand up, but You just look at me.

  • Acts 8:32
    69%

    32The passage of Scripture he was reading was this: 'Like a sheep he was led to the slaughter, and like a lamb before its shearer is silent, so he did not open his mouth.'

  • Job 3:16
    68%

    16Or why was I not like a stillborn child, like infants who never saw the light?