Psalms 31:13

KJV1611 – Modern English

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

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  • Linguistic Bible Translation from Source Texts

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

  • King James Version 1769 (Standard Version)

    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.

  • American Standard Version with Strong's Numbers

    For I have heard{H8085} the defaming{H1681} of many,{H7227} Terror{H4032} on every side:{H5439} While they took counsel{H3245} together{H3162} against me, they devised{H2161} to take away{H3947} my life.{H5315}

  • King James Version with Strong's Numbers

    For I have heard{H8085}{(H8804)} the slander{H1681} of many{H7227}: fear{H4032} was on every side{H5439}: while they took counsel{H3245}{(H8736)} together{H3162} against me, they devised{H2161}{(H8804)} to take away{H3947}{(H8800)} my life{H5315}.

  • Coverdale Bible (1535)

    I am become a very reprofe amonge all myne enemies, my neghbours & they of myne owne acquauntaunce are afrayed of me: they yt se me in the strete, coveye them selues fro me.

  • Geneva Bible (1560)

    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.

  • Bishops' Bible (1568)

    For I haue hearde the villanie of the multitude, and feare was on euery side me: whyle they conspired together against me, and toke their counsell to take away my life.

  • 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.

  • Webster's Bible (1833)

    For I have heard the slander of many, terror on every side, While they conspire together against me, They plot to take away my life.

  • Young's Literal Translation (1862/1898)

    For I have heard an evil account of many, Fear `is' round about. In their being united against me, To take my life they have devised,

  • American Standard Version (1901)

    For I have heard the defaming of many, Terror on every side: While they took counsel together against me, They devised to take away my life.

  • American Standard Version (1901)

    For I have heard the defaming of many, Terror on every side: While they took counsel together against me, they devised to take away my life.

  • Bible in Basic English (1941)

    False statements against me have come to my ears; fear was on every side: they were talking together against me, designing to take away my life.

  • World English Bible (2000)

    For I have heard the slander of many, terror on every side, while they conspire together against me, they plot to take away my life.

  • NET Bible® (New English Translation)

    For I hear what so many are saying, the terrifying news that comes from every direction. When they plot together against me, they figure out how they can take my life.

Referenced Verses

  • Jer 20:10 : 10 For I heard the defaming of many, fear on every side. Report, they say, and we will report it. All my familiar friends watched for my faltering, saying, Perhaps he will be enticed, and we shall prevail against him, and we shall take our revenge on him.
  • Matt 27:1 : 1 When morning came, all the chief priests and elders of the people took counsel against Jesus to put him to death.
  • Lam 2:22 : 22 You have called as on a solemn day my terrors all around, so that in the day of the Lord's anger none escaped nor remained: those that I have nurtured and brought up my enemy has consumed.
  • 2 Sam 17:1-4 : 1 Moreover Ahithophel said to Absalom, Let me now choose twelve thousand men, and I will arise and pursue David tonight: 2 And I will come upon him while he is weary and weak-handed, and will make him afraid; and all the people who are with him will flee, and I will strike the king only: 3 And I will bring back all the people to you: the man whom you seek 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 its walls; mischief and sorrow are in the midst of it.
  • Ps 56:1-3 : 1 Be merciful to me, O God, for man would swallow me up; he fights against me daily oppressing me. 2 My enemies would daily swallow me up, for there are many who fight against me, O Most High. 3 Whenever I am afraid, I will trust in you.
  • Ps 57:4 : 4 My soul is among lions, and I lie among those who 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 Whoever secretly slanders his neighbor, him will I cut off: him that has a haughty look and a proud heart I will not endure.
  • Jer 6:25 : 25 Do not go 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 gentle lamb or an ox that is brought to the slaughter; and I did not know that they had devised plots against me, saying, Let us destroy the tree with its fruit, and let us cut him off from the land of the living, that his name may be remembered no more.
  • Jer 20:3-4 : 3 And it came to pass the next day, that Pashur brought forth Jeremiah out of the stocks. Then Jeremiah said to him, The LORD has not called your name Pashur, but Magor-missabib. 4 For thus says the LORD, Behold, I will make you a terror to yourself, and to all your friends: and they shall fall by the sword of their enemies, and your 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, to the palace of the high priest, who was called Caiaphas, 4 And consulted that they might take Jesus by stealth, and kill him.
  • Matt 26:59 : 59 Now the chief priests, and elders, and all the council, sought false testimony against Jesus, to put him to death;
  • 1 Sam 19:10-17 : 10 And Saul sought to pin David to the wall with the javelin, but he slipped away out of Saul's presence, and he drove the javelin into the wall; and David fled and escaped that night. 11 Saul also sent messengers to David's house, to watch him, and to kill him in the morning; and Michal, David's wife, told him, saying, If you do not save your life tonight, tomorrow you shall be killed. 12 So Michal let David down through a window; and he went, and fled, and escaped. 13 And Michal took a household idol and laid it in the bed, and put a pillow of goats' hair for its head, 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 kill him. 16 And when the messengers came in, behold, there was the household idol in the bed, with a pillow of goats' hair for its head. 17 And Saul said to Michal, Why have you deceived me so, and sent away my enemy, so that he has escaped? And Michal answered Saul, He said to me, Let me go; why should I kill you?
  • 1 Sam 20:33 : 33 And Saul cast a javelin at him to smite him, whereby Jonathan knew that it was determined by his father to slay David.
  • 1 Sam 22:8-9 : 8 That all of you have conspired against me, and there is none that shows me that my son has made a league with the son of Jesse, and there is none of you that is sorry for me, or shows to me that my son has stirred up my servant against me, to lie in wait, as at this day? 9 Then answered Doeg the Edomite, who 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 food, and gave him the sword of Goliath the Philistine.
  • 1 Sam 23:19-20 : 19 Then the Ziphites went up to Saul to Gibeah, saying, Does not David hide himself with us in strongholds in the forest, 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 your 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, Why do you listen to men's words, saying, Behold, David seeks your harm?
  • Luke 23:1-2 : 1 And the whole crowd arose and led Him to Pilate. 2 And they began to accuse Him, saying, We found this man misleading the nation and forbidding to pay taxes to Caesar, claiming that He is Christ, a King.
  • Luke 23:5 : 5 But they were even more fierce, saying, He stirs up the people, teaching throughout all Judea, beginning from Galilee to here.

Similar Verses (AI)

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  • Jer 20:10-11
    2 verses
    83%

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

    11 But 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
    3 verses
    80%

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

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

  • Ps 71:10
    79%

    10 For my enemies speak against me; and those who lie in wait for my soul take counsel together,

  • Ps 41:7
    79%

    7 All who hate me whisper together against me; they devise my harm against me.

  • Ps 31:14-15
    2 verses
    78%

    14 But I trusted in you, O LORD: I said, You are my God.

    15 My times are in your hand: deliver me from the hand of my enemies, and from those who persecute me.

  • Ps 38:12
    77%

    12 Those who seek my life lay snares for me, and those who seek my hurt speak mischievous things and imagine deceits all day long.

  • Ps 55:3-4
    2 verses
    76%

    3 Because 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.

    4 My heart is in anguish within me, and the terrors of death have fallen upon me.

  • Ps 35:15
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    15 But in my adversity they rejoiced, and gathered themselves together; yes, the abjects gathered themselves together against me, and I knew it not; they tore me, and did not cease:

  • Jer 11:19
    75%

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

  • Job 16:10
    75%

    10 They gape upon me with their mouth; they strike me on the cheek reproachfully; they gather themselves together against me.

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    75%

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

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    2 verses
    75%

    5 Every day they twist my words; all their thoughts are against me for evil.

    6 They gather themselves together, they hide themselves, they mark my steps, waiting for my life.

  • Ps 13:4
    75%

    4 Lest my enemy say, I have prevailed against him; and those who trouble me rejoice when I am moved.

  • Ps 38:16
    75%

    16 For I said, 'Hear me, lest otherwise they rejoice over me; when my foot slips, they magnify themselves against me.'

  • Ps 59:3
    75%

    3 For, look, they lie in wait for my life; the mighty are gathered against me, not for my transgression nor for my sin, O LORD.

  • Ps 25:19
    75%

    19 Consider my enemies, for they are many, and they hate me with cruel hatred.

  • Lam 3:61-62
    2 verses
    75%

    61 You have heard their reproach, O LORD, and all their schemes against me;

    62 The lips of those who rose up against me, and their plot against me all day long.

  • Ps 109:2-3
    2 verses
    74%

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

    3 They surrounded me with words of hatred and fought against me without cause.

  • Ps 22:13
    74%

    13 They gaped at me with their mouths, like a ravening and roaring lion.

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

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    74%

    22 For I said in my haste, I am cut off from before your eyes: nevertheless you heard the voice of my supplications when I cried to you.

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    21 They have heard that I sigh: there is none to comfort me: all my enemies have heard of my trouble; they are glad that you have done it: you will bring the day that you have promised, and they shall be like me.

  • Ps 56:3
    73%

    3 Whenever I am afraid, I will trust in you.

  • Ps 37:32
    73%

    32 The wicked watch the righteous, and seek to slay him.

  • Ps 3:1
    73%

    1 LORD, how are they increased that trouble me! Many are they that rise up against me.

  • Ps 27:12
    73%

    12 Do not deliver me to the will of my enemies; for false witnesses have risen against me, and such as breathe out violence.

  • Job 31:34
    72%

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

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    72%

    25 For the thing I greatly feared has come upon me, and what I dreaded has happened to me.

  • Ps 17:9
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    9 From the wicked who oppress me, from my deadly enemies who surround me.

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

  • Job 31:29
    72%

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

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    72%

    11 In God I have put my trust; I will not be afraid of what man can do to me.

  • Ps 64:1-2
    2 verses
    72%

    1 Hear my voice, O God, in my prayer; preserve my life from fear of the enemy.

    2 Hide me from the secret counsel of the wicked, from the insurrection of the workers of iniquity.

  • Lam 3:11
    72%

    11 He has turned aside my ways and torn me to pieces; He has made me desolate.

  • Ps 54:3
    72%

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

  • Job 16:12
    72%

    12 I was at ease, but he has broken me apart; he has also seized me by my neck and shaken me to pieces and set me up as his target.

  • Ps 86:14
    72%

    14 O God, the proud have risen against me, and a mob of violent men have sought my soul, and have not set You before them.

  • Ps 143:9
    72%

    9 Deliver me, O LORD, from my enemies: I flee to You to hide me.

  • Ps 102:8
    72%

    8 My enemies reproach me all day long; those who are mad against me are sworn against me.

  • Job 30:13
    72%

    13 They mar my path, they advance my calamity, they have no helper.