Psalms 62:3

King James Version 1769 (Standard Version)

How long will ye imagine mischief against a man? ye shall be slain all of you: as a bowing wall shall ye be, and as a tottering fence.

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Referenced Verses

  • Ps 4:2 : 2 O ye sons of men, how long will ye turn my glory into shame? how long will ye love vanity, and seek after leasing? Selah.
  • Ps 21:11 : 11 For they intended evil against thee: they imagined a mischievous device, which they are not able to perform.
  • Ps 38:12 : 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 82:2 : 2 How long will ye judge unjustly, and accept the persons of the wicked? Selah.
  • Ps 140:2 : 2 Which imagine mischiefs in their heart; continually are they gathered together for war.
  • Prov 1:22 : 22 How long, ye simple ones, will ye love simplicity? and the scorners delight in their scorning, and fools hate knowledge?
  • Exod 16:28 : 28 And the LORD said unto Moses, How long refuse ye to keep my commandments and my laws?
  • Jer 4:14 : 14 O usalem, wash thine heart from wickedness, that thou mayest be saved. How long shall thy vain thoughts lodge within thee?
  • Hos 7:15 : 15 Tugh I have bound and strengthened their arms, yet do they imagine mischief against me.
  • Matt 17:17 : 17 Then Jesus answered and said, O faithless and perverse generation, how long shall I be with you? how long shall I suffer you? bring him hither to me.
  • 1 Sam 26:10 : 10 David said furthermore, As the LORD liveth, the LORD shall smite him; or his day shall come to die; or he shall descend into battle, and perish.
  • Exod 10:3 : 3 And Moses and Aaron came in unto Pharaoh, and said unto him, Thus saith the LORD God of the Hebrews, How long wilt thou refuse to humble thyself before me? let my people go, that they may serve me.
  • Prov 6:9 : 9 How long wilt thou sleep, O sluggard? when wilt thou arise out of thy sleep?
  • Isa 30:13-14 : 13 Therefore this iniquity shall be to you as a breach ready to fall, swelling out in a high wall, whose breaking cometh suddenly at an instant. 14 And he shall break it as the breaking of the potters' vessel that is broken in pieces; he shall not spare: so that there shall not be found in the bursting of it a sherd to take fire from the hearth, or to take water withal out of the pit.
  • Ps 73:18-20 : 18 Surely thou didst set them in slippery places: thou castedst them down into destruction. 19 How are they brought into desolation, as in a moment! they are utterly consumed with terrors. 20 As a dream when one awaketh; so, O Lord, when thou awakest, thou shalt despise their image.

Similar Verses (AI)

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  • Ps 62:4
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    4 They only consult to cast him down from his excellency: they delight in lies: they bless with their mouth, but they curse inwardly. Selah.

  • Ps 21:11-12
    2 verses
    75%

    11 For they intended evil against thee: they imagined a mischievous device, which they are not able to perform.

    12 Therefore shalt thou make them turn their back, when thou shalt make ready thine arrows upon thy strings against the face of them.

  • Ps 52:5
    75%

    5 God shall likewise destroy thee for ever, he shall take thee away, and pluck thee out of thy dwelling place, and root thee out of the land of the living. Selah.

  • Ps 89:40-41
    2 verses
    75%

    40 Thou hast broken down all his hedges; thou hast brought his strong holds to ruin.

    41 All that pass by the way spoil him: he is a reproach to his neighbours.

  • Ps 140:2
    75%

    2 Which imagine mischiefs in their heart; continually are they gathered together for war.

  • Jer 18:22-23
    2 verses
    74%

    22 Let 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.

    23 Yet, 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 64:7-8
    2 verses
    73%

    7 But God shall shoot at them with an arrow; suddenly shall they be wounded.

    8 So they shall make their own tongue to fall upon themselves: all that see them shall flee away.

  • Ps 5:10
    73%

    10 Destroy thou them, O God; let them fall by their own counsels; cast them out in the multitude of their transgressions; for they have rebelled against thee.

  • Lam 3:60-62
    3 verses
    73%

    60 Thou hast seen all their vengeance and all their imaginations against me.

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

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

  • Nah 1:9-11
    3 verses
    73%

    9 What do ye imagine against the LORD? he will make an utter end: affliction shall not rise up the second time.

    10 For while they be folden together as thorns, and while they are drunken as drunkards, they shall be devoured as stubble fully dry.

    11 There is one come out of thee, that imagineth evil against the LORD, a wicked counseller.

  • Ps 55:10
    73%

    10 Day and night they go about it upon the walls thereof: mischief also and sorrow are in the midst of it.

  • Ps 38:12
    73%

    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 37:14-15
    2 verses
    73%

    14 The wicked have drawn out the sword, and have bent their bow, to cast down the poor and needy, and to slay such as be of upright conversation.

    15 Their sword shall enter into their own heart, and their bows shall be broken.

  • Ps 56:5
    73%

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

  • Isa 30:13
    73%

    13 Therefore this iniquity shall be to you as a breach ready to fall, swelling out in a high wall, whose breaking cometh suddenly at an instant.

  • Ps 140:9
    73%

    9 As for the head of those that compass me about, let the mischief of their own li cover them.

  • Ps 83:3
    73%

    3 They have taken crafty counsel against thy people, and consulted against thy hidden ones.

  • Ps 92:7
    73%

    7 When the wicked spring as the grass, and when all the workers of iniquity do flourish; it is that they shall be destroyed for ever:

  • Ezek 16:40
    73%

    40 They shall also bring up a company against thee, and they shall stone thee with stones, and thrust thee through with their swords.

  • Ps 55:23
    72%

    23 But thou, O God, shalt bring them down into the pit of destruction: bloody and deceitful men shall not live out half their days; but I will trust in thee.

  • Ps 73:18
    72%

    18 Surely thou didst set them in slippery places: thou castedst them down into destruction.

  • Ps 55:20
    72%

    20 He hath put forth his hands against such as be at peace with him: he hath broken his covenant.

  • Ps 11:2
    72%

    2 For, lo, the wicked bend their bow, they make ready their arrow upon the string, that they may privily shoot at the upright in heart.

  • Ps 64:3-4
    2 verses
    72%

    3 Who whet their tongue like a sword, and bend their bows to shoot their arrows, even bitter words:

    4 That they may shoot in secret at the perfect: suddenly do they shoot at him, and fear not.

  • Ps 94:4
    71%

    4 How long shall they utter and speak hard things? and all the workers of iniquity boast themselves?

  • Jer 20:10
    71%

    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.

  • Ps 37:32
    71%

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

  • Ezek 26:9
    71%

    9 And he shall set engines of war against thy walls, and with his axes he shall break down thy towers.

  • Ps 13:2
    71%

    2 How long shall I take counsel in my soul, having sorrow in my heart daily? how long shall mine enemy be exalted over me?

  • Ps 52:1-2
    2 verses
    71%

    1 To the chief Musician, Maschil, A alm of David, when Doeg the Edomite came and told Saul, and said unto him, David is come to the house of Ahimelech. Why boastest thou thyself in mischief, O mighty man? the goodness of God endureth continually.

    2 Thy tongue deviseth mischiefs; like a sharp rasor, working deceitfully.

  • Ps 58:7
    71%

    7 Let them melt away as waters which run continually: when he bendeth his bow to shoot his arrows, let them be as cut in pieces.

  • Prov 24:15
    71%

    15 Lay not wait, O wicked man, against the dwelling of the righteous; spoil not his resting place:

  • Ps 57:6
    71%

    6 They have prepared a net for my ste; my soul is bowed down: they have digged a pit before me, into the midst whereof they are fallen themselves. Selah.

  • Jer 11:19
    71%

    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.

  • Ps 28:3
    71%

    3 Draw me not away with the wicked, and with the workers of iniquity, which speak peace to their neighbours, but mischief is in their hearts.

  • Ps 37:2
    71%

    2 For they shall soon be cut down like the grass, and wither as the green herb.

  • Ps 35:20
    71%

    20 For they speak not peace: but they devise deceitful matters against them that are quiet in the land.

  • Ps 83:5
    71%

    5 For they have consulted together with one consent: they are confederate against thee:

  • Ps 62:2
    71%

    2 He only is my rock and my salvation; he is my defence; I shall not be greatly moved.