Psalms 38:16

Authorized King James Version (1611)

For I said, [Hear me], lest [otherwise] they should rejoice over me: when my foot slippeth, they magnify [themselves] against me.

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Referenced Verses

  • Ps 94:18 : 18 When I said, My foot slippeth; thy mercy, O LORD, held me up.
  • Deut 32:35 : 35 To me [belongeth] vengeance, and recompence; their foot shall slide in [due] time: for the day of their calamity [is] at hand, and the things that shall come upon them make haste.
  • Ps 13:3-4 : 3 Consider [and] hear me, O LORD my God: lighten mine eyes, lest I sleep the [sleep of] death; 4 Lest mine enemy say, I have prevailed against him; [and] those that trouble me rejoice when I am moved.
  • Ps 35:24-26 : 24 Judge me, O LORD my God, according to thy righteousness; and let them not rejoice over me. 25 Let them not say in their hearts, Ah, so would we have it: let them not say, We have swallowed him up. 26 Let them be ashamed and brought to confusion together that rejoice at mine hurt: let them be clothed with shame and dishonour that magnify [themselves] against me.

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    36Thou hast enlarged my steps under me, that my feet did not slip.

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    15For in thee, O LORD, do I hope: thou wilt hear, O Lord my God.

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    37Thou hast enlarged my steps under me; so that my feet did not slip.

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    18When I said, My foot slippeth; thy mercy, O LORD, held me up.

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    11Let not the foot of pride come against me, and let not the hand of the wicked remove me.

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