Psalms 38:16

KJV1611 – Modern English

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

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  • Ps 94:18 : 18 When I said, My foot slips; your mercy, O LORD, held me up.
  • Deut 32:35 : 35 To me belong vengeance, and recompense; their foot shall slip 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: enlighten my eyes, lest I sleep the sleep of death; 4 Lest my enemy say, I have prevailed against him; and those who trouble me rejoice when I am moved.
  • Ps 35:24-26 : 24 Judge me, O LORD my God, according to your righteousness; and let them not rejoice over me. 25 Let them not say in their hearts, Ah, this is what we wanted; let them not say, We have swallowed him up. 26 Let them be ashamed and brought to confusion together that rejoice at my hurt; let them be clothed with shame and dishonor that magnify themselves against me.

Similar Verses (AI)

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  • Ps 38:17
    81%

    17For I am ready to fall, and my sorrow is continually before me.

  • Ps 13:4
    80%

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

  • Ps 35:24-27
    4 verses
    78%

    24Judge me, O LORD my God, according to your righteousness; and let them not rejoice over me.

    25Let them not say in their hearts, Ah, this is what we wanted; let them not say, We have swallowed him up.

    26Let them be ashamed and brought to confusion together that rejoice at my hurt; let them be clothed with shame and dishonor that magnify themselves against me.

    27Let them shout for joy and be glad, who favor my righteous cause; yes, let them say continually, Let the LORD be magnified, who has pleasure in the prosperity of his servant.

  • Ps 18:36
    78%

    36You have enlarged my steps under me, so that my feet did not slip.

  • Ps 73:2
    78%

    2But as for me, my feet were almost gone; my steps had nearly slipped.

  • Ps 38:15
    77%

    15For in you, O LORD, do I hope; you will hear, O Lord my God.

  • 2 Sam 22:37
    77%

    37You have enlarged my steps under me; so that my feet did not slip.

  • Ps 35:15
    77%

    15But 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:

  • Ps 94:18
    77%

    18When I said, My foot slips; your mercy, O LORD, held me up.

  • Ps 36:11
    76%

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

  • Jer 20:10
    76%

    10For 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.

  • Ps 18:38
    75%

    38I have wounded them so that they were not able to rise: they have fallen under my feet.

  • Ps 17:5-6
    2 verses
    75%

    5Hold up my steps in your paths, that my footsteps do not slip.

    6I have called upon you, for you will hear me, O God; incline your ear to me, and hear my speech.

  • Job 19:5
    75%

    5If indeed you will magnify yourselves against me and plead against me my reproach,

  • Ps 57:6
    75%

    6They have prepared a net for my steps; my soul is bowed down; they have dug a pit before me; into the midst of it they have fallen themselves. Selah.

  • Ps 56:6
    75%

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

  • Ps 31:13-14
    2 verses
    75%

    13For 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.

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

  • Ps 31:22
    75%

    22For 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.

  • Lam 1:21-22
    2 verses
    75%

    21They 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.

    22Let all their wickedness come before you; and do unto them, as you have done unto me for all my transgressions: for my sighs are many, and my heart is faint.

  • Ps 38:12
    74%

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

  • Ps 59:3
    74%

    3For, 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 49:5
    74%

    5Why should I fear in the days of evil, when the iniquity of my heels shall surround me?

  • Job 30:12-13
    2 verses
    74%

    12Upon my right hand rise the youth; they push away my feet, and they raise up against me the ways of their destruction.

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

  • Jer 18:22
    73%

    22Let 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.

  • Ps 55:3
    73%

    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.

  • Ps 26:1
    73%

    1Judge me, O LORD, for I have walked in my integrity; I have also trusted in the LORD; therefore I shall not fall.

  • Ps 140:5
    73%

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

  • Ps 71:10
    73%

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

  • Job 16:10
    73%

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

  • Ps 18:18
    73%

    18They confronted me in the day of my calamity: but the LORD was my support.

  • Ps 116:8
    73%

    8For You have delivered my soul from death, my eyes from tears, and my feet from falling.

  • Ps 25:15
    73%

    15My eyes are ever toward the LORD, for He shall pluck my feet out of the net.

  • Ps 40:14
    73%

    14Let them be ashamed and confounded together who seek after my soul to destroy it; let them be driven backward and put to shame who wish me evil.

  • Ps 55:12
    73%

    12For it was not an enemy that reproached me; then I could have borne it. Neither was it one who hated me that exalted himself against me; then I would have hidden from him,

  • Job 31:29
    72%

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

  • Ps 38:19
    72%

    19But my enemies are vigorous, and they are strong; and those who hate me wrongfully are multiplied.

  • Ps 118:13
    72%

    13You thrust hard at me that I might fall, but the LORD helped me.

  • 2 Sam 22:19
    72%

    19They confronted me in the day of my calamity: but the LORD was my support.

  • Ps 142:3
    72%

    3When my spirit was overwhelmed within me, then You knew my path. In the way where I walked, they secretly laid a snare for me.

  • Ps 39:8
    72%

    8Deliver me from all my transgressions: do not make me the reproach of the foolish.

  • Ps 41:10
    72%

    10But You, O LORD, be merciful to me and raise me up, that I may repay them.

  • Ps 16:1
    72%

    1Preserve me, O God, for in You do I put my trust.

  • Ps 40:12
    72%

    12For innumerable evils have surrounded me: my iniquities have taken hold of me, so that I am not able to look up; they are more than the hairs of my head: therefore my heart fails me.