Psalms 37:32

World English Bible (2000)

The wicked watches the righteous, and seeks to kill him.

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Referenced Verses

  • Ps 10:8-9 : 8 He lies in wait near the villages. From ambushes, he murders the innocent. His eyes are secretly set against the helpless. 9 He lurks in secret as a lion in his ambush. He lies in wait to catch the helpless. He catches the helpless, when he draws him in his net. 10 The helpless are crushed. They collapse. They fall under his strength.
  • Ps 37:12 : 12 The wicked plots against the just, and gnashes at him with his teeth.
  • 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.
  • Luke 6:7 : 7 The scribes and the Pharisees watched him, to see whether he would heal on the Sabbath, that they might find an accusation against him.
  • Luke 11:54 : 54 lying in wait for him, and seeking to catch him in something he might say, that they might accuse him.
  • Luke 14:1 : 1 It happened, when he went into the house of one of the rulers of the Pharisees on a Sabbath to eat bread, that they were watching him.
  • Luke 19:47-48 : 47 He was teaching daily in the temple, but the chief priests and the scribes and the leading men among the people sought to destroy him. 48 They couldn't find what they might do, for all the people hung on to every word that he said.
  • Luke 20:20 : 20 They watched him, and sent out spies, who pretended to be righteous, that they might trap him in something he said, so as to deliver him up to the power and authority of the governor.
  • Acts 9:24 : 24 but their plot became known to Saul. They watched the gates both day and night that they might kill him,

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    17 "But you are full of the judgment of the wicked. Judgment and justice take hold of you.

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    5 Yahweh examines the righteous, but the wicked and him who loves violence his soul hates.

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