Psalms 62:3

KJV1611 – Modern English

How long will you imagine mischief against a man? You shall all be slain; as a leaning wall shall you be, and as a tottering fence.

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  • Ps 4:2 : 2 O you sons of men, how long will you turn my glory into shame? How long will you love vanity, and seek after lies? Selah.
  • Ps 21:11 : 11 For they intended evil against you: they devised a mischievous scheme, which they are not able to perform.
  • Ps 38:12 : 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 82:2 : 2 How long will you judge unjustly and show partiality to the wicked? Selah.
  • Ps 140:2 : 2 Who devise mischiefs in their hearts; continually they gather together for war.
  • Prov 1:22 : 22 "How long, you simple ones, will you love simplicity? And the scorners delight in their scorning, and fools hate knowledge?
  • Exod 16:28 : 28 And the LORD said to Moses, How long will you refuse to keep my commandments and my laws?
  • Jer 4:14 : 14 O Jerusalem, wash your heart from wickedness, that you may be saved. How long shall your vain thoughts lodge within you?
  • Hos 7:15 : 15 Though I have bound and strengthened their arms, yet 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 here to me.
  • 1 Sam 26:10 : 10 David said furthermore, "As the LORD lives, the LORD will strike him, or his day will come to die, or he shall go down into battle and perish."
  • Exod 10:3 : 3 And Moses and Aaron came in to Pharaoh and said to him, Thus says the LORD God of the Hebrews, How long will you refuse to humble yourself before me? Let my people go, that they may serve me.
  • Prov 6:9 : 9 How long will you sleep, O sluggard? when will you arise out of your sleep?
  • Isa 30:13-14 : 13 Therefore this iniquity shall be to you like a breach ready to fall, swelling out in a high wall, whose breaking comes suddenly, in an instant. 14 And he shall break it as the breaking of the potter's vessel that is broken in pieces; he shall not spare: so that there shall not be found among its fragments a shard to take fire from the hearth, or to take water from the pit.
  • Ps 73:18-20 : 18 Surely You set them in slippery places; You cast them down to destruction. 19 How they are brought into desolation, as in a moment! They are utterly consumed with terrors. 20 As a dream when one awakes; so, O Lord, when You wake up, You shall despise their image.

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  • 4 They only plan to cast him down from his high position; they delight in lies; they bless with their mouth, but they curse inwardly. Selah.

  • Ps 21:11-12
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    75%

    11 For they intended evil against you: they devised a mischievous scheme, which they are not able to perform.

    12 Therefore, you shall make them turn their back; you shall make ready your arrows on your strings against their face.

  • 5 God shall likewise destroy you forever, He shall take you away, and pluck you out of your dwelling place, and root you out of the land of the living. Selah.

  • Ps 89:40-41
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    75%

    40 You have broken down all his hedges; you have brought his strongholds to ruin.

    41 All who pass by the way plunder him; he is a reproach to his neighbors.

  • 2 Who devise mischiefs in their hearts; continually they gather together for war.

  • Jer 18:22-23
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    74%

    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.

    23 Yet, LORD, you know all their counsel against me to slay me: forgive not their iniquity, neither blot out their sin from your sight, but let them be overthrown before you; deal thus with them in the time of your anger.

  • Ps 64:7-8
    2 verses
    73%

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

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

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

  • Lam 3:60-62
    3 verses
    73%

    60 You have seen all their vengeance and all their schemes against me.

    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.

  • Nah 1:9-11
    3 verses
    73%

    9 What do you imagine against the LORD? He will make an utter end; affliction shall not rise up a second time.

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

    11 There is one come out from you, who imagines evil against the LORD, a wicked counselor.

  • 10 Day and night they go about it upon its walls; mischief and sorrow are in the midst of it.

  • 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 37:14-15
    2 verses
    73%

    14 The wicked have drawn the sword and have bent their bow, to cast down the poor and needy, and to slay those who are of upright conduct.

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

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

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

  • 9 As for the head of those who surround me, let the mischief of their own lips cover them.

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

  • 7 When the wicked spring up like the grass, and when all the workers of iniquity flourish, it is so they may be destroyed forever.

  • 40 They shall also bring up an assembly against you, and they shall stone you with stones, and thrust you through with their swords.

  • 23 But You, O God, shall bring them down into the pit of destruction; bloodthirsty and deceitful men shall not live out half their days, but I will trust in You.

  • 18 Surely You set them in slippery places; You cast them down to destruction.

  • 20 He has put forth his hands against those at peace with him; he has broken his covenant.

  • 2 For behold, the wicked bend their bow, they make ready their arrow upon the string, to secretly shoot at the upright in heart.

  • Ps 64:3-4
    2 verses
    72%

    3 Who sharpen 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 blameless; suddenly do they shoot at him and fear not.

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

  • 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.

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

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

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

  • Ps 52:1-2
    2 verses
    71%

    1 Why do you boast in mischief, O mighty man? The goodness of God endures continually.

    2 Your tongue devises mischiefs; like a sharp razor, working deceitfully.

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

  • 15 Do not lie in wait, O wicked man, against the dwelling of the righteous; do not spoil his resting place.

  • 6 They 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.

  • 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.

  • 3 Do not draw me away with the wicked, and with the workers of iniquity, who speak peace to their neighbors, but mischief is in their hearts.

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

  • 20 For they speak not peace; but they devise deceitful matters against those who are quiet in the land.

  • 5 For they have conspired together with one accord: they are allied against you:

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