Psalms 31:13

Authorized King James Version (1611)

For I have heard the slander of many: fear [was] on every side: while they took counsel together against me, they devised to take away my life.

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  • Jer 20:10 : 10 For I heard the defaming of many, fear on every side. Report, [say they], and we will report it. All my familiars watched for my halting, [saying], Peradventure he will be enticed, and we shall prevail against him, and we shall take our revenge on him.
  • Matt 27:1 : 1 ¶ When the morning was come, all the chief priests and elders of the people took counsel against Jesus to put him to death:
  • Lam 2:22 : 22 Thou hast called as in a solemn day my terrors round about, so that in the day of the LORD'S anger none escaped nor remained: those that I have swaddled and brought up hath mine enemy consumed.
  • 2 Sam 17:1-4 : 1 ¶ Moreover Ahithophel said unto Absalom, Let me now choose out twelve thousand men, and I will arise and pursue after David this night: 2 And I will come upon him while he [is] weary and weak handed, and will make him afraid: and all the people that [are] with him shall flee; and I will smite the king only: 3 And I will bring back all the people unto thee: the man whom thou seekest [is] as if all returned: [so] all the people shall be in peace. 4 And the saying pleased Absalom well, and all the elders of Israel.
  • Ps 55:10 : 10 Day and night they go about it upon the walls thereof: mischief also and sorrow [are] in the midst of it.
  • Ps 56:1-3 : 1 ¶ To the chief Musician upon Jonathelemrechokim, Michtam of David, when the Philistines took him in Gath. Be merciful unto me, O God: for man would swallow me up; he fighting daily oppresseth me. 2 Mine enemies would daily swallow [me] up: for [they be] many that fight against me, O thou most High. 3 What time I am afraid, I will trust in thee.
  • Ps 57:4 : 4 My soul [is] among lions: [and] I lie [even among] them that are set on fire, [even] the sons of men, whose teeth [are] spears and arrows, and their tongue a sharp sword.
  • Ps 101:5 : 5 Whoso privily slandereth his neighbour, him will I cut off: him that hath an high look and a proud heart will not I suffer.
  • Jer 6:25 : 25 Go not forth into the field, nor walk by the way; for the sword of the enemy [and] fear [is] on every side.
  • Jer 11:19 : 19 But I [was] like a lamb [or] an ox [that] is brought to the slaughter; and I knew not that they had devised devices against me, [saying], Let us destroy the tree with the fruit thereof, and let us cut him off from the land of the living, that his name may be no more remembered.
  • Jer 20:3-4 : 3 And it came to pass on the morrow, that Pashur brought forth Jeremiah out of the stocks. Then said Jeremiah unto him, The LORD hath not called thy name Pashur, but Magormissabib. 4 For thus saith the LORD, Behold, I will make thee a terror to thyself, and to all thy friends: and they shall fall by the sword of their enemies, and thine eyes shall behold [it]: and I will give all Judah into the hand of the king of Babylon, and he shall carry them captive into Babylon, and shall slay them with the sword.
  • Matt 26:3-4 : 3 Then assembled together the chief priests, and the scribes, and the elders of the people, unto the palace of the high priest, who was called Caiaphas, 4 And consulted that they might take Jesus by subtilty, and kill [him].
  • Matt 26:59 : 59 Now the chief priests, and elders, and all the council, sought false witness against Jesus, to put him to death;
  • 1 Sam 19:10-17 : 10 And Saul sought to smite David even to the wall with the javelin; but he slipped away out of Saul's presence, and he smote the javelin into the wall: and David fled, and escaped that night. 11 ¶ Saul also sent messengers unto David's house, to watch him, and to slay him in the morning: and Michal David's wife told him, saying, If thou save not thy life to night, to morrow thou shalt be slain. 12 So Michal let David down through a window: and he went, and fled, and escaped. 13 And Michal took an image, and laid [it] in the bed, and put a pillow of goats' [hair] for his bolster, and covered [it] with a cloth. 14 And when Saul sent messengers to take David, she said, He [is] sick. 15 And Saul sent the messengers [again] to see David, saying, Bring him up to me in the bed, that I may slay him. 16 And when the messengers were come in, behold, [there was] an image in the bed, with a pillow of goats' [hair] for his bolster. 17 And Saul said unto Michal, Why hast thou deceived me so, and sent away mine enemy, that he is escaped? And Michal answered Saul, He said unto me, Let me go; why should I kill thee?
  • 1 Sam 20:33 : 33 And Saul cast a javelin at him to smite him: whereby Jonathan knew that it was determined of his father to slay David.
  • 1 Sam 22:8-9 : 8 That all of you have conspired against me, and [there is] none that sheweth me that my son hath made a league with the son of Jesse, and [there is] none of you that is sorry for me, or sheweth unto me that my son hath stirred up my servant against me, to lie in wait, as at this day? 9 Then answered Doeg the Edomite, which was set over the servants of Saul, and said, I saw the son of Jesse coming to Nob, to Ahimelech the son of Ahitub. 10 And he enquired of the LORD for him, and gave him victuals, and gave him the sword of Goliath the Philistine.
  • 1 Sam 23:19-20 : 19 ¶ Then came up the Ziphites to Saul to Gibeah, saying, Doth not David hide himself with us in strong holds in the wood, in the hill of Hachilah, which [is] on the south of Jeshimon? 20 Now therefore, O king, come down according to all the desire of thy soul to come down; and our part [shall be] to deliver him into the king's hand.
  • 1 Sam 24:9 : 9 ¶ And David said to Saul, Wherefore hearest thou men's words, saying, Behold, David seeketh thy hurt?
  • Luke 23:1-2 : 1 ¶ And the whole multitude of them arose, and led him unto Pilate. 2 And they began to accuse him, saying, We found this [fellow] perverting the nation, and forbidding to give tribute to Caesar, saying that he himself is Christ a King.
  • Luke 23:5 : 5 And they were the more fierce, saying, He stirreth up the people, teaching throughout all Jewry, beginning from Galilee to this place.

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  • Jer 20:10-11
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    83%

    10For I heard the defaming of many, fear on every side. Report, [say they], and we will report it. All my familiars watched for my halting, [saying], Peradventure he will be enticed, and we shall prevail against him, and we shall take our revenge on him.

    11But the LORD [is] with me as a mighty terrible one: therefore my persecutors shall stumble, and they shall not prevail: they shall be greatly ashamed; for they shall not prosper: [their] everlasting confusion shall never be forgotten.

  • Ps 31:10-12
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    80%

    10For my life is spent with grief, and my years with sighing: my strength faileth because of mine iniquity, and my bones are consumed.

    11I was a reproach among all mine enemies, but especially among my neighbours, and a fear to mine acquaintance: they that did see me without fled from me.

    12I am forgotten as a dead man out of mind: I am like a broken vessel.

  • Ps 71:10
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    10For mine enemies speak against me; and they that lay wait for my soul take counsel together,

  • Ps 41:7
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    7All that hate me whisper together against me: against me do they devise my hurt.

  • Ps 31:14-15
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    14But I trusted in thee, O LORD: I said, Thou [art] my God.

    15My times [are] in thy hand: deliver me from the hand of mine enemies, and from them that persecute me.

  • Ps 38:12
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    12¶ They also that seek after my life lay snares [for me]: and they that seek my hurt speak mischievous things, and imagine deceits all the day long.

  • Ps 55:3-4
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    3Because of the voice of the enemy, because of the oppression of the wicked: for they cast iniquity upon me, and in wrath they hate me.

    4My heart is sore pained within me: and the terrors of death are fallen upon me.

  • Ps 35:15
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    15But in mine adversity they rejoiced, and gathered themselves together: [yea], the abjects gathered themselves together against me, and I knew [it] not; they did tear [me], and ceased not:

  • Jer 11:19
    75%

    19But I [was] like a lamb [or] an ox [that] is brought to the slaughter; and I knew not that they had devised devices against me, [saying], Let us destroy the tree with the fruit thereof, and let us cut him off from the land of the living, that his name may be no more remembered.

  • Job 16:10
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    10They have gaped upon me with their mouth; they have smitten me upon the cheek reproachfully; they have gathered themselves together against me.

  • Ps 41:5
    75%

    5¶ Mine enemies speak evil of me, When shall he die, and his name perish?

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    5Every day they wrest my words: all their thoughts [are] against me for evil.

    6They gather themselves together, they hide themselves, they mark my steps, when they wait for my soul.

  • Ps 13:4
    75%

    4Lest mine enemy say, I have prevailed against him; [and] those that trouble me rejoice when I am moved.

  • Ps 38:16
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  • Ps 59:3
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    3For, lo, they lie in wait for my soul: the mighty are gathered against me; not [for] my transgression, nor [for] my sin, O LORD.

  • Ps 25:19
    75%

    19Consider mine enemies; for they are many; and they hate me with cruel hatred.

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    61Thou hast heard their reproach, O LORD, [and] all their imaginations against me;

    62The lips of those that rose up against me, and their device against me all the day.

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    2 verses
    74%

    2For the mouth of the wicked and the mouth of the deceitful are opened against me: they have spoken against me with a lying tongue.

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  • Ps 22:13
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    13They gaped upon me [with] their mouths, [as] a ravening and a roaring lion.

  • Jer 18:22-23
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    22Let a cry be heard from their houses, when thou shalt bring a troop suddenly upon them: for they have digged a pit to take me, and hid snares for my feet.

    23Yet, LORD, thou knowest all their counsel against me to slay [me]: forgive not their iniquity, neither blot out their sin from thy sight, but let them be overthrown before thee; deal [thus] with them in the time of thine anger.

  • Ps 31:22
    74%

    22For I said in my haste, I am cut off from before thine eyes: nevertheless thou heardest the voice of my supplications when I cried unto thee.

  • Lam 1:21
    73%

    21They have heard that I sigh: [there is] none to comfort me: all mine enemies have heard of my trouble; they are glad that thou hast done [it]: thou wilt bring the day [that] thou hast called, and they shall be like unto me.

  • Ps 56:3
    73%

    3What time I am afraid, I will trust in thee.

  • Ps 37:32
    73%

    32The wicked watcheth the righteous, and seeketh to slay him.

  • Ps 3:1
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    1¶ A Psalm of David, when he fled from Absalom his son. LORD, how are they increased that trouble me! many [are] they that rise up against me.

  • Ps 27:12
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    12Deliver me not over unto the will of mine enemies: for false witnesses are risen up against me, and such as breathe out cruelty.

  • Job 31:34
    72%

    34Did I fear a great multitude, or did the contempt of families terrify me, that I kept silence, [and] went not out of the door?

  • Job 3:25
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    25For the thing which I greatly feared is come upon me, and that which I was afraid of is come unto me.

  • Ps 17:9
    72%

    9From the wicked that oppress me, [from] my deadly enemies, [who] compass me about.

  • Ps 140:5
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    5The proud have hid a snare for me, and cords; they have spread a net by the wayside; they have set gins for me. Selah.

  • Job 31:29
    72%

    29If I rejoiced at the destruction of him that hated me, or lifted up myself when evil found him:

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    11In God have I put my trust: I will not be afraid what man can do unto me.

  • Ps 64:1-2
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    1¶ To the chief Musician, A Psalm of David. Hear my voice, O God, in my prayer: preserve my life from fear of the enemy.

    2Hide me from the secret counsel of the wicked; from the insurrection of the workers of iniquity:

  • Lam 3:11
    72%

    11He hath turned aside my ways, and pulled me in pieces: he hath made me desolate.

  • Ps 54:3
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    3For strangers are risen up against me, and oppressors seek after my soul: they have not set God before them. Selah.

  • Job 16:12
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    12I was at ease, but he hath broken me asunder: he hath also taken [me] by my neck, and shaken me to pieces, and set me up for his mark.

  • Ps 86:14
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    14O God, the proud are risen against me, and the assemblies of violent [men] have sought after my soul; and have not set thee before them.

  • Ps 143:9
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    9Deliver me, O LORD, from mine enemies: I flee unto thee to hide me.

  • Ps 102:8
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    8Mine enemies reproach me all the day; [and] they that are mad against me are sworn against me.

  • Job 30:13
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    13They mar my path, they set forward my calamity, they have no helper.