Psalms 38:12

World English Bible (2000)

They also who seek after my life lay snares. Those who seek my hurt speak mischievous things, and meditate deceits all day long.

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  • Ps 35:20 : 20 For they don't speak peace, but they devise deceitful words against those who are quiet in the land.
  • Ps 140:5 : 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.
  • Ps 141:9 : 9 Keep me from the snare which they have laid for me, from the traps of the workers of iniquity.
  • Ps 64:2-5 : 2 Hide me from the conspiracy of the wicked, from the noisy crowd of the ones doing evil; 3 who sharpen their tongue like a sword, and aim their arrows, deadly words, 4 to shoot innocent men from ambushes. They shoot at him suddenly and fearlessly. 5 They encourage themselves in evil plans. They talk about laying snares secretly. They say, "Who will see them?"
  • 2 Sam 16:7-8 : 7 Shimei said when he cursed, "Be gone, be gone, you man of blood, and base fellow! 8 Yahweh has returned on you all the blood of the house of Saul, in whose place you have reigned! Yahweh has delivered the kingdom into the hand of Absalom your son! Behold, you are caught by your own mischief, because you are a man of blood!"
  • 2 Sam 17:1-3 : 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."
  • Ps 35:4 : 4 Let those who seek after my soul be disappointed and brought to dishonor. Let those who plot my ruin be turned back and confounded.
  • Ps 10:9 : 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.
  • Ps 54:3 : 3 For strangers have risen up against me. Violent men have sought after my soul. They haven't set God before them. Selah.
  • Ps 62:3-4 : 3 How long will you assault a man, would all of you throw him down, Like a leaning wall, like a tottering fence? 4 They fully intend to throw him down from his lofty place. They delight in lies. They bless with their mouth, but they curse inwardly. Selah.
  • Ps 119:110 : 110 The wicked have laid a snare for me, yet I haven't gone astray from your precepts.
  • Luke 20:19-22 : 19 The chief priests and the scribes sought to lay hands on him that very hour, but they feared the people--for they knew he had spoken this parable against them. 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. 21 They asked him, "Teacher, we know that you say and teach what is right, and aren't partial to anyone, but truly teach the way of God. 22 Is it lawful for us to pay taxes to Caesar, or not?"

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    19 But my enemies are vigorous and many. Those who hate me without reason are numerous.

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    4 Let those who seek after my soul be disappointed and brought to dishonor. Let those who plot my ruin be turned back and confounded.

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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.

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

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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.

  • Jer 20:10
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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.

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    11 My lovers and my friends stand aloof from my plague. My kinsmen stand far away.

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

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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.

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    2 Let them be disappointed and confounded who seek my soul. Let those who desire my ruin be turned back in disgrace.

  • Prov 1:18
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    18 but these lay wait for their own blood. They lurk secretly for their own lives.

  • Ps 64:5
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    5 They encourage themselves in evil plans. They talk about laying snares secretly. They say, "Who will see them?"

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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.

  • Ps 21:11
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    14 Let them be disappointed and confounded together who seek after my soul to destroy it. Let them be turned backward and brought to dishonor who delight in my hurt.

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    3 How long will you assault a man, would all of you throw him down, Like a leaning wall, like a tottering fence?

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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.

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    9 Keep me from the snare which they have laid for me, from the traps of the workers of iniquity.

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

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    7 For without cause they have hidden their net in a pit for me. Without cause they have dug a pit for my soul.

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

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    13 But I, as a deaf man, don't hear. I am as a mute man who doesn't open his mouth.

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    9 from the wicked who oppress me, my deadly enemies, who surround me.

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    13 Let my accusers be disappointed and consumed. Let them be covered with disgrace and scorn who want to harm me.