Psalms 31:13

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.

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  • Jer 20:10 : 10 For I have heard the defaming of many, terror on every side. Denounce, and we will denounce him, [say] all my familiar friends, those who watch for my fall; perhaps he will be persuaded, and we shall prevail against him, and we shall take our revenge on him.
  • Matt 27:1 : 1 Now when morning had come, all the chief priests and the elders of the people took counsel against Jesus to put him to death:
  • Lam 2:22 : 22 You have called, as in the day of a solemn assembly, my terrors on every side; There was none that escaped or remained in the day of Yahweh's anger: Those that I have dandled and brought up has my enemy 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 after David tonight. 2 I will come on him while he is weary and exhausted, and will make him afraid. All the people who are with him shall flee. 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. All the people shall be in peace." 4 The saying pleased Absalom well, and all the elders of Israel.
  • Ps 55:10 : 10 Day and night they prowl around on its walls. Malice and abuse are also within her.
  • Ps 56:1-3 : 1 Be merciful to me, God, for man wants to swallow me up. All day long, he attacks and oppresses me. 2 My enemies want to swallow me up all day long, for they are many who fight proudly against me. 3 When I am afraid, I will put my trust in you.
  • Ps 57:4 : 4 My soul is among lions. 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 I will silence whoever secretly slanders his neighbor. I won't tolerate one who is haughty and conceited.
  • Jer 6:25 : 25 Don't go forth into the field, nor walk by the way; for the sword of the enemy, [and] terror, are on every side.
  • Jer 11:19 : 19 But I was like a gentle lamb that is led to the slaughter; and I didn't know that they had devised devices 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 no more remembered.
  • Jer 20:3-4 : 3 It happened on the next day, that Pashhur brought forth Jeremiah out of the stocks. Then Jeremiah said to him, Yahweh has not called your name Pashhur, but Magormissabib. 4 For thus says Yahweh, 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 see it; and I will give all Judah into the hand of the king of Babylon, and he shall carry them captive to Babylon, and shall kill them with the sword.
  • Matt 26:3-4 : 3 Then the chief priests, the scribes, and the elders of the people were gathered together in the court of the high priest, who was called Caiaphas. 4 They took counsel together that they might take Jesus by deceit, and kill him.
  • Matt 26:59 : 59 Now the chief priests, the elders, and the whole council sought false testimony against Jesus, that they might put him to death;
  • 1 Sam 19:10-17 : 10 Saul sought to pin David even to the wall with the spear; but he slipped away out of Saul's presence, and he stuck the spear into the wall. David fled, and escaped that night. 11 Saul sent messengers to David's house, to watch him, and to kill him in the morning. Michal, David's wife, told him, saying, "If you don't save your life tonight, tomorrow you will be killed." 12 So Michal let David down through the window. He went, fled, and escaped. 13 Michal took the teraphim, and laid it in the bed, and put a pillow of goats' [hair] at its head, and covered it with the clothes. 14 When Saul sent messengers to take David, she said, "He is sick." 15 Saul sent the messengers to see David, saying, "Bring him up to me in the bed, that I may kill him." 16 When the messengers came in, behold, the teraphim was in the bed, with the pillow of goats' hair at its head. 17 Saul said to Michal, "Why have you deceived me thus, and let my enemy go, so that he is escaped?" Michal answered Saul, "He said to me, 'Let me go! Why should I kill you?'"
  • 1 Sam 20:33 : 33 Saul cast his spear at him to strike him. By this Jonathan knew that his father was determined to put David to death.
  • 1 Sam 22:8-9 : 8 that all of you have conspired against me, and there is none who discloses to me when my son makes a treaty with the son of Jesse, and there is none of you who is sorry for me, or discloses to me that my son has stirred up my servant against me, to lie in wait, as at this day?" 9 Then Doeg the Edomite, who stood by the servants of Saul, answered and said, "I saw the son of Jesse coming to Nob, to Ahimelech the son of Ahitub. 10 He inquired of Yahweh for him, gave him food, and gave him the sword of Goliath the Philistine."
  • 1 Sam 23:19-20 : 19 Then the Ziphites came up to Saul to Gibeah, saying, "Doesn't David hide himself with us in the strongholds in the wood, in the hill of Hachilah, which is on the south of the desert? 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 up into the king's hand."
  • 1 Sam 24:9 : 9 David said to Saul, "Why do you listen to men's words, saying, 'Behold, David seeks your hurt?'
  • Luke 23:1-2 : 1 The whole company of them rose up and brought him before Pilate. 2 They began to accuse him, saying, "We found this man perverting the nation, forbidding paying taxes to Caesar, and saying that he himself is Christ, a king."
  • Luke 23:5 : 5 But they insisted, saying, "He stirs up the people, teaching throughout all Judea, beginning from Galilee even to this place."

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  • Jer 20:10-11
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    10 For I have heard the defaming of many, terror on every side. Denounce, and we will denounce him, [say] all my familiar friends, those who watch for my fall; perhaps he will be persuaded, and we shall prevail against him, and we shall take our revenge on him.

    11 But Yahweh is with me as an awesome mighty one: therefore my persecutors shall stumble, and they shall not prevail; they shall be utterly disappointed, because they have not dealt wisely, even with an everlasting dishonor which shall never be forgotten.

  • Ps 31:10-12
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    10 For my life is spent with sorrow, my years with sighing. My strength fails because of my iniquity. My bones are wasted away.

    11 Because of all my adversaries I have become utterly contemptible to my neighbors, A fear to my acquaintances. Those who saw me on the street fled from me.

    12 I am forgotten from their hearts like a dead man. I am like broken pottery.

  • Ps 71:10
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    10 For my enemies talk about me. Those who watch for my soul conspire together,

  • Ps 41:7
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    7 All who hate me whisper together against me. They imagine the worst for me.

  • Ps 31:14-15
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    14 But I trust in you, Yahweh. 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
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    12 They also who seek after my life lay snares. Those who seek my hurt speak mischievous things, and meditate deceits all day long.

  • Ps 55:3-4
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    3 Because of the voice of the enemy, Because of the oppression of the wicked. For they bring suffering on me. In anger they hold a grudge against me.

    4 My heart is severely pained within me. The terrors of death have fallen on me.

  • Ps 35:15
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    15 But in my adversity, they rejoiced, and gathered themselves together. The attackers gathered themselves together against me, and I didn't know it. They tore at me, and didn't cease.

  • Jer 11:19
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    19 But I was like a gentle lamb that is led to the slaughter; and I didn't know that they had devised devices 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 no more remembered.

  • Job 16:10
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    10 They have gaped on me with their mouth. They have struck me on the cheek reproachfully. They gather themselves together against me.

  • Ps 41:5
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    5 My enemies speak evil against me: "When will he die, and his name perish?"

  • Ps 56:5-6
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    5 All day long they twist my words. All their thoughts are against me for evil.

    6 They conspire and lurk, watching my steps, they are eager to take my life.

  • Ps 13:4
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    4 Lest my enemy say, "I have prevailed against him;" Lest my adversaries rejoice when I fall.

  • Ps 38:16
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    16 For I said, "Don't let them gloat over me, or exalt themselves over me when my foot slips."

  • Ps 59:3
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    3 For, behold, they lie in wait for my soul. The mighty gather themselves together against me, not for my disobedience, nor for my sin, Yahweh.

  • Ps 25:19
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    19 Consider my enemies, for they are many. They hate me with cruel hatred.

  • Lam 3:61-62
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    61 You have heard their reproach, Yahweh, and all their devices against me,

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

  • Ps 109:2-3
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    2 for they have opened the mouth of the wicked and the mouth of deceit against me. They have spoken to me with a lying tongue.

    3 They have also surrounded me with words of hatred, and fought against me without a cause.

  • Ps 22:13
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    13 They open their mouths wide against me, lions tearing prey and roaring.

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

    23 Yet, Yahweh, you know all their counsel against me to kill me; don't forgive their iniquity, neither blot out their sin from your sight; but let them be overthrown before you; deal you with them in the time of your anger.

  • Ps 31:22
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    22 As for me, I said in my haste, "I am cut off from before your eyes." Nevertheless you heard the voice of my petitions when I cried to you.

  • Lam 1:21
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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 proclaimed, and they shall be like me.

  • Ps 56:3
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    3 When I am afraid, I will put my trust in you.

  • Ps 37:32
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    32 The wicked watches the righteous, and seeks to kill him.

  • Ps 3:1
    73%

    1 Yahweh, how my adversaries have increased! Many are those who rise up against me.

  • Ps 27:12
    73%

    12 Don't deliver me over to the desire of my adversaries, for false witnesses have risen up against me, such as breathe out cruelty.

  • Job 31:34
    72%

    34 because I feared the great multitude, and the contempt of families terrified me, so that I kept silence, and didn't go out of the door--

  • Job 3:25
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    25 For the thing which I fear comes on me, That which I am afraid of comes to me.

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

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

  • Job 31:29
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    29 "If I have rejoiced at the destruction of him who hated me, or lifted up myself when evil found him;

  • Ps 56:11
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    11 I have put my trust in God. I will not be afraid. What can man do to me?

  • Ps 64:1-2
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    1 Hear my voice, God, in my complaint. Preserve my life from fear of the enemy.

    2 Hide me from the conspiracy of the wicked, from the noisy crowd of the ones doing evil;

  • Lam 3:11
    72%

    11 He has turned aside my ways, and pulled me in pieces; he has made me desolate.

  • Ps 54:3
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    3 For strangers have risen up against me. Violent men have sought after my soul. They haven't set God before them. Selah.

  • Job 16:12
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    12 I was at ease, and he broke me apart. Yes, he has taken me by the neck, and dashed me to pieces. He has also set me up for his target.

  • Ps 86:14
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    14 God, the proud have risen up against me. A company of violent men have sought after my soul, and they don't hold regard for you before them.

  • Ps 143:9
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    9 Deliver me, Yahweh, from my enemies. I flee to you to hide me.

  • Ps 102:8
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    8 My enemies reproach me all day. Those who are mad at me use my name as a curse.

  • Job 30:13
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    13 They mar my path, They set forward my calamity, without anyone's help.