Psalms 62:3

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How long will you threaten a man? All of you are murderers, as dangerous as a leaning wall or an unstable fence.

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Referenced Verses

  • Ps 4:2 : 2 You men, how long will you try to turn my honor into shame? How long will you love what is worthless and search for what is deceptive?(Selah)
  • Ps 21:11 : 11 Yes, they intend to do you harm; they dream up a scheme, but they do not succeed.
  • Ps 38:12 : 12 Those who seek my life try to entrap me; those who want to harm me speak destructive words; all day long they say deceitful things.
  • Ps 82:2 : 2 He says,“How long will you make unjust legal decisions and show favoritism to the wicked?(Selah)
  • Ps 140:2 : 2 who plan ways to harm me. All day long they stir up conflict.
  • Prov 1:22 : 22 “How long will you simpletons love naiveté? How long have mockers delighted in mockery? And how long will fools hate knowledge?
  • Exod 16:28 : 28 So the LORD said to Moses,“How long do you refuse to obey my commandments and my instructions?
  • Jer 4:14 : 14 “Oh people of Jerusalem, purify your hearts from evil so that you may yet be delivered. How long will you continue to harbor up wicked schemes within you?
  • Hos 7:15 : 15 Although I trained and strengthened them, they plot evil against me!
  • Matt 17:17 : 17 Jesus answered,“You unbelieving and perverse generation! How much longer must I be with you? How much longer must I endure you? Bring him here to me.”
  • 1 Sam 26:10 : 10 David went on to say,“As the LORD lives, the LORD himself will strike him down. Either his day will come and he will die, or he will go down into battle and be swept away.
  • Exod 10:3 : 3 So Moses and Aaron came to Pharaoh and told him,“This is what the LORD, the God of the Hebrews, has said:‘How long do you refuse to humble yourself before me? Release my people so that they may serve me!
  • Prov 6:9 : 9 How long, you sluggard, will you lie there? When will you rise from your sleep?
  • Isa 30:13-14 : 13 So this sin will become your downfall. You will be like a high wall that bulges and cracks and is ready to collapse; it crumbles suddenly, in a flash. 14 It shatters in pieces like a clay jar, so shattered to bits that none of it can be salvaged. Among its fragments one cannot find a shard large enough to scoop a hot coal from a fire or to skim off water from a cistern.”
  • Ps 73:18-20 : 18 Surely you put them in slippery places; you bring them down to ruin. 19 How desolate they become in a mere moment! Terrifying judgments make their demise complete! 20 They are like a dream after one wakes up. O Lord, when you awake you will despise them.

Similar Verses (AI)

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  • Ps 62:4
    80%

    4They spend all their time planning how to bring him down. They love to use deceit; they pronounce blessings with their mouths, but inwardly they utter curses.(Selah)

  • Ps 21:11-12
    2 verses
    75%

    11Yes, they intend to do you harm; they dream up a scheme, but they do not succeed.

    12For you make them retreat when you aim your arrows at them.

  • Ps 52:5
    75%

    5Yet God will make you a permanent heap of ruins. He will scoop you up and remove you from your home; he will uproot you from the land of the living.(Selah)

  • Ps 89:40-41
    2 verses
    75%

    40You have broken down all his walls; you have made his strongholds a heap of ruins.

    41All who pass by have robbed him; he has become an object of disdain to his neighbors.

  • Ps 140:2
    75%

    2who plan ways to harm me. All day long they stir up conflict.

  • Jer 18:22-23
    2 verses
    74%

    22Let cries of terror be heard in their houses when you send bands of raiders unexpectedly to plunder them. For they have virtually dug a pit to capture me and have hidden traps for me to step into.

    23But you, LORD, know all their plots to kill me. Do not pardon their crimes! Do not ignore their sins as though you had erased them! Let them be brought down in defeat before you! Deal with them while you are still angry!

  • Ps 64:7-8
    2 verses
    73%

    7But God will shoot at them; suddenly they will be wounded by an arrow.

    8Their slander will bring about their demise. All who see them will shudder,

  • Ps 5:10
    73%

    10Condemn them, O God! May their own schemes be their downfall! Drive them away because of their many acts of insurrection, for they have rebelled against you.

  • Lam 3:60-62
    3 verses
    73%

    60You have seen all their vengeance, all their plots against me.

    61ש(Sin/Shin) You have heard their taunts, O LORD, all their plots against me.

    62My assailants revile and conspire against me all day long.

  • Nah 1:9-11
    3 verses
    73%

    9Denunciation and Destruction of Nineveh Whatever you plot against the LORD, he will completely destroy! Distress will not arise a second time.

    10Surely they will be totally consumed like entangled thorn bushes, like the drink of drunkards, like very dry stubble.

    11From you, O Nineveh, one has marched forth who plots evil against the LORD, a wicked military strategist.

  • Ps 55:10
    73%

    10Day and night they walk around on its walls, while wickedness and destruction are within it.

  • Ps 38:12
    73%

    12Those who seek my life try to entrap me; those who want to harm me speak destructive words; all day long they say deceitful things.

  • Ps 37:14-15
    2 verses
    73%

    14Evil men draw their swords and prepare their bows, to bring down the oppressed and needy, and to slaughter those who are godly.

    15Their swords will pierce their own hearts, and their bows will be broken.

  • Ps 56:5
    73%

    5All day long they cause me trouble; they make a habit of plotting my demise.

  • Isa 30:13
    73%

    13So this sin will become your downfall. You will be like a high wall that bulges and cracks and is ready to collapse; it crumbles suddenly, in a flash.

  • Ps 140:9
    73%

    9As for the heads of those who surround me– may the harm done by their lips overwhelm them!

  • Ps 83:3
    73%

    3They carefully plot against your people, and make plans to harm the ones you cherish.

  • Ps 92:7
    73%

    7When the wicked sprout up like grass, and all the evildoers glisten, it is so that they may be annihilated.

  • Ezek 16:40
    73%

    40They will summon a mob who will stone you and hack you in pieces with their swords.

  • Ps 55:23
    72%

    23But you, O God, will bring them down to the deep Pit. Violent and deceitful people will not live even half a normal lifespan. But as for me, I trust in you.

  • Ps 73:18
    72%

    18Surely you put them in slippery places; you bring them down to ruin.

  • Ps 55:20
    72%

    20He attacks his friends; he breaks his solemn promises to them.

  • Ps 11:2
    72%

    2For look, the wicked prepare their bows, they put their arrows on the strings, to shoot in the darkness at the morally upright.

  • Ps 64:3-4
    2 verses
    72%

    3They sharpen their tongues like a sword; they aim their arrow, a slanderous charge,

    4in order to shoot down the innocent in secluded places. They shoot at him suddenly and are unafraid of retaliation.

  • Ps 94:4
    71%

    4They spew out threats and speak defiantly; all the evildoers boast.

  • Jer 20:10
    71%

    10I hear many whispering words of intrigue against me. Those who would cause me terror are everywhere! They are saying,“Come on, let’s publicly denounce him!” All my so-called friends are just watching for something that would lead to my downfall. They say,“Perhaps he can be enticed into slipping up, so we can prevail over him and get our revenge on him.

  • Ps 37:32
    71%

    32Evil men set an ambush for the godly and try to kill them.

  • Ezek 26:9
    71%

    9He will direct the blows of his battering rams against your walls and tear down your towers with his weapons.

  • Ps 13:2
    71%

    2How long must I worry, and suffer in broad daylight? How long will my enemy gloat over me?

  • Ps 52:1-2
    2 verses
    71%

    1For the music director; a well-written song by David. It was written when Doeg the Edomite went and informed Saul:“David has arrived at the home of Ahimelech.” Why do you boast about your evil plans, O powerful man? God’s loyal love protects me all day long!

    2Your tongue carries out your destructive plans; it is as effective as a sharp razor, O deceiver.

  • Ps 58:7
    71%

    7Let them disappear like water that flows away! Let them wither like grass!

  • Prov 24:15
    71%

    15Do not lie in wait like the wicked against the place where the righteous live; do not assault his home.

  • Ps 57:6
    71%

    6They have prepared a net to trap me; I am discouraged. They have dug a pit for me. They will fall into it!(Selah)

  • Jer 11:19
    71%

    19Before this I had been like a docile lamb ready to be led to the slaughter. I did not know they were making plans to kill me. I did not know they were saying,“Let’s destroy the tree along with its fruit! Let’s remove Jeremiah from the world of the living so people will not even be reminded of him any more.”

  • Ps 28:3
    71%

    3Do not drag me away with evil men, with those who behave wickedly, who talk so friendly to their neighbors, while they plan to harm them!

  • Ps 37:2
    71%

    2For they will quickly dry up like grass, and wither away like plants.

  • Ps 35:20
    71%

    20For they do not try to make peace with others, but plan ways to deceive those who live peacefully in the land.

  • Ps 83:5
    71%

    5Yes, they devise a unified strategy; they form an alliance against you.

  • Ps 62:2
    71%

    2He alone is my protector and deliverer. He is my refuge; I will not be upended.