Psalms 38:12

Geneva Bible (1560)

They also, that seeke after my life, laye snares, and they that go about to do me euil, talke wicked things and imagine deceite continually.

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  • Ps 35:20 : 20 For they speake not as friendes: but they imagine deceitfull woordes against the quiet of the lande.
  • Ps 140:5 : 5 The proude haue layde a snare for me, and spred a nette with cordes in my pathway, and set grennes for me. Selah.
  • Ps 141:9 : 9 Keepe me from the snare, which they haue layde for me, and from the grennes of the workers of iniquitie.
  • Ps 64:2-5 : 2 Hide me from the conspiracie of the wicked, and from the rage of the workers of iniquitie. 3 Which haue whette their tongue like a sword, and shot for their arrowes bitter wordes. 4 To shoote at the vpright in secrete: they shoote at him suddenly, and feare not. 5 They encourage themselues in a wicked purpose: they commune together to lay snares priuilie, and say, Who shall see them?
  • 2 Sam 16:7-8 : 7 And thus sayde Shimei when hee cursed, Come forth, come foorth thou murtherer, and wicked man. 8 The Lord hath brought vpon thee all the blood of the house of Saul, in whose stead thou hast reigned: and the Lorde hath deliuered thy kingdome into the hand of Absalom thy sonne: and beholde, thou art taken in thy wickednesse, because thou art a murtherer.
  • 2 Sam 17:1-3 : 1 Moreouer Ahithophel said to Absalom, Let me chuse out now twelue thousand men, & I will vp and follow after Dauid this night, 2 And I will come vpon him: for he is wearie, and weake handed: so I will feare him, and all the people that are with him, shall flee, and I will smite the King onely, 3 And I will bring againe all the people vnto thee, and when all shal returne, ( the man whome thou seekest being slaine ) all the people shalbe in peace.
  • Ps 35:4 : 4 Let them be confounded & put to shame, that seeke after my soule: let them be turned backe, and brought to confusion, that imagine mine hurt.
  • Ps 10:9 : 9 He lyeth in waite secretly, euen as a lyon in his denne: he lyeth in waite to spoyle the poore: he doeth spoyle the poore, when he draweth him into his net.
  • Ps 54:3 : 3 For strangers are risen vp against me, and tyrants seeke my soule: they haue not set God before them. Selah.
  • Ps 62:3-4 : 3 How long wil ye imagine mischiefe against a man? ye shalbe all slaine: ye shalbe as a bowed wall, or as a wall shaken. 4 Yet they consult to cast him downe from his dignitie: their delight is in lies, they blesse with their mouthes, but curse with their hearts. Selah.
  • Ps 119:110 : 110 The wicked haue layed a snare for mee: but I swarued not from thy precepts.
  • Luke 20:19-22 : 19 Then the hie Priests, and the Scribes the same houre went about to lay hands on him: (but they feared the people) for they perceiued that he had spoken this parable against them. 20 And they watched him, and sent forth spies, which should faine themselues iust men, to take him in his talke, and to deliuer him vnto the power and authoritie of the gouernour. 21 And they asked him, saying, Master, we know that thou sayest, and teachest right, neither doest thou accept mans person, but teachest the way of God truly. 22 Is it lawfull for vs to giue Cesar tribute or no?

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    7 All they that hate me, whisper together against me: euen against me do they imagine mine hurt.

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  • Ps 56:5-6
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    5 Mine owne wordes grieue me dayly: all their thoughtes are against me to doe me hurt.

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  • Ps 35:19-20
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    19 Let not them that are mine enemies, vniustly reioyce ouer mee, neyther let them winke with the eye, that hate mee without a cause.

    20 For they speake not as friendes: but they imagine deceitfull woordes against the quiet of the lande.

  • Ps 71:10
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    10 For mine enemies speake of mee, and they that lay waite for my soule, take their counsell together,

  • Ps 31:13
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    13 For I haue heard the rayling of great men: feare was on euery side, while they conspired together against mee, and consulted to take my life.

  • Ps 38:19-20
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    19 Then mine enemies are aliue & are mightie, and they that hate me wrongfully are many.

    20 They also, that rewarde euill for good, are mine aduersaries, because I followe goodnesse.

  • Ps 35:4
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    4 Let them be confounded & put to shame, that seeke after my soule: let them be turned backe, and brought to confusion, that imagine mine hurt.

  • Ps 140:2
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    2 Which imagine euill things in their heart, and make warre continually.

  • Ps 109:2-3
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    2 For the mouth of the wicked, and the mouth full of deceite are opened vpon me: they haue spoken to me with a lying tongue.

    3 They compassed me about also with words of hatred, and fought against me without a cause.

  • Ps 102:8
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    8 Mine enemies reuile me dayly, and they that rage against me, haue sworne against me.

  • Lam 3:62
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    62 The lippes also of those that rose against me, and their whispering against me continually.

  • Ps 35:15
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    15 But in mine aduersitie they reioyced, and gathered them selues together: the abiects assembled themselues against me, and knewe not: they tare me and ceased not,

  • Ps 59:3
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    3 For loe, they haue layd waite for my soule: the mightie men are gathered against me, not for mine offence, nor for my sinne, O Lord.

  • Jer 20:10
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    10 For I had heard the railing of many, and feare on euery side. Declare, said they, and wee wil declare it: all my familiars watched for mine halting, saying, It may be that he is deceiued: so we shall preuaile against him, and we shal execute our vengeance vpon him.

  • Ps 38:11
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    11 My louers and my friends stand aside from my plague, and my kinsmen stand a farre off.

  • Ps 41:5
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    5 Mine enemies speake euill of me, saying, When shall he die, and his name perish?

  • Ps 140:5
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    5 The proude haue layde a snare for me, and spred a nette with cordes in my pathway, and set grennes for me. Selah.

  • Ps 70:2
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    2 Let them be confounded & put to shame, that seeke my soule: let them bee turned backewarde and put to rebuke, that desire mine hurt.

  • Prov 1:18
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    18 So they lay waite for blood and lie priuily for their liues.

  • Ps 64:5
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    5 They encourage themselues in a wicked purpose: they commune together to lay snares priuilie, and say, Who shall see them?

  • Ps 55:3
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    3 For the voyce of the enemie, and for the vexation of ye wicked, because they haue brought iniquitie vpon me, and furiously hate me.

  • Ps 21:11
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    11 For they intended euill against thee, and imagined mischiefe, but they shall not preuaile.

  • Jer 5:26
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    26 For among my people are founde wicked persons, that lay waite as hee that setteth snares: they haue made a pit, to catch men.

  • Ps 25:19
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    19 Beholde mine enemies, for they are manie, and they hate me with cruell hatred.

  • Ps 40:14
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    14 Let them be confounded & put to shame together, that seeke my soule to destroye it: let them be driuen backward and put to rebuke, that desire mine hurt.

  • Ps 62:3-4
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    3 How long wil ye imagine mischiefe against a man? ye shalbe all slaine: ye shalbe as a bowed wall, or as a wall shaken.

    4 Yet they consult to cast him downe from his dignitie: their delight is in lies, they blesse with their mouthes, but curse with their hearts. Selah.

  • Job 30:12-13
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    12 The youth rise vp at my right hand: they haue pusht my feete, and haue trode on me as on the paths of their destruction.

    13 They haue destroyed my paths: they tooke pleasure at my calamitie, they had none helpe.

  • Ps 57:6
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    6 They haue layd a net for my steps: my soule is pressed downe: they haue digged a pit before me, and are fallen into the mids of it. Selah.

  • Lam 1:21
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    21 They haue heard that I mourne, but there is none to comfort mee: all mine enemies haue heard of my trouble, and are glad, that thou hast done it: thou wilt bring the day, that thou hast pronounced, and they shalbe like vnto me.

  • Job 16:10
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    10 They haue opened their mouthes vpon me, and smitten me on the cheeke in reproch; they gather themselues together against me.

  • Jer 18:22
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    22 Let the crye bee heard from their houses, when thou shalt bring an hoste suddenly vpon them: for they haue digged a pit to take me, and hid snares for my feete.

  • Ps 38:16
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    16 For I said, Heare me, least they reioyce ouer me: for when my foote slippeth, they extol themselues against me.

  • Ps 141:9
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    9 Keepe me from the snare, which they haue layde for me, and from the grennes of the workers of iniquitie.

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    9 As for the chiefe of them, that compasse me about, let the mischiefe of their owne lippes come vpon them.

  • Ps 35:11-12
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    11 Cruell witnesses did rise vp: they asked of me things that I knewe not.

    12 They rewarded me euill for good, to haue spoyled my soule.

  • Ps 35:7
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    7 For without cause they haue hid the pit & their net for me: without cause haue they digged a pit for my soule.

  • Ps 37:32
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    32 The wicked watcheth the righteous, and seeketh to slay him.

  • Ps 38:13
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    13 But I as a deafe man heard not, and am as a dumme man, which openeth not his mouth.

  • Lam 3:52
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    52 Mine enemies chased me sore like a birde, without cause.

  • Jer 11:19
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    19 But I was like a lambe, or a bullocke, that is brought to the slaughter, and I knewe not that they had deuised thus against me, saying, Let vs destroy the tree with the fruite thereof, and cut him out of the lande of the liuing, that his name may be no more in memory.

  • Ps 17:9
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    9 From the wicked that oppresse mee, from mine enemies, which compasse me round about for my soule.

  • Ps 71:13
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    13 Let them be confounded & consumed that are against my soule: let them be couered with reproofe and confusion, that seeke mine hurt.