Psalms 56:6

World English Bible (2000)

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

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  • Ps 59:3 : 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 71:10 : 10 For my enemies talk about me. Those who watch for my soul conspire together,
  • Ps 140:2 : 2 those who devise mischief in their hearts. They continually gather themselves together for war.
  • Isa 54:15 : 15 Behold, they may gather together, but not by me: whoever shall gather together against you shall fall because of you.
  • 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.
  • Dan 6:4 : 4 Then the presidents and the satraps sought to find occasion against Daniel as touching the kingdom; but they could find no occasion nor fault, because he was faithful, neither was there any error or fault found in him.
  • 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 26:57 : 57 Those who had taken Jesus led him away to Caiaphas the high priest, where the scribes and the elders were gathered together.
  • 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:
  • 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 4:5-6 : 5 It happened in the morning, that their rulers, elders, and scribes were gathered together in Jerusalem. 6 Annas the high priest was there, with Caiaphas, John, Alexander, and as many as were relatives of the high priest.
  • Acts 23:12-14 : 12 When it was day, some of the Jews banded together, and bound themselves under a curse, saying that they would neither eat nor drink until they had killed Paul. 13 There were more than forty people who had made this conspiracy. 14 They came to the chief priests and the elders, and said, "We have bound ourselves under a great curse, to taste nothing until we have killed Paul.
  • Ps 89:51 : 51 With which your enemies have mocked, Yahweh, with which they have mocked the footsteps of your anointed one.
  • Ps 64:2-6 : 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?" 6 They plot injustice, saying, "We have made a perfect plan!" Surely man's mind and heart are cunning.
  • Job 14:16 : 16 But now you number my steps. Don't you watch over my sin?
  • Job 31:4 : 4 Doesn't he see my ways, and number all my steps?
  • Ps 2:1-3 : 1 Why do the nations rage, and the peoples plot a vain thing? 2 The kings of the earth take a stand, and the rulers take counsel together, against Yahweh, and against his Anointed, saying, 3 "Let's break their bonds apart, and cast their cords from us."
  • 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 37:32 : 32 The wicked watches the righteous, and seeks to kill him.
  • Ps 57:6 : 6 They have prepared a net for my steps. My soul is bowed down. They dig a pit before me. They fall into its midst themselves. Selah.

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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.

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    6 They have prepared a net for my steps. My soul is bowed down. They dig a pit before me. They fall into its midst themselves. Selah.

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

  • 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 56:7
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    7 Shall they escape by iniquity? In anger cast down the peoples, God.

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  • 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.

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    11 They have now surrounded us in our steps. They set their eyes to cast us down to the earth.

  • Ps 35:7
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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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    12 On my right hand rise the rabble. They thrust aside my feet, They cast up against me their ways of destruction.

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  • Ps 142:3
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    3 When my spirit was overwhelmed within me, you knew my path. In the way in which I walk, they have hidden a snare for me.

  • Jer 18:22
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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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    7 All who hate me whisper together against me. They imagine the worst for me.

  • Ps 35:4
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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.

  • 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.

  • Ps 70:2
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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.

  • Ps 40:14
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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.

  • Jer 5:26
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    26 For among my people are found wicked men. They watch, as fowlers lie in wait. They set a trap. They catch men.

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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.

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

  • Ps 38:16
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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.

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    3 They conspire with cunning against your people. They plot against your cherished ones.

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    2 those who devise mischief in their hearts. They continually gather themselves together for war.

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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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    2 My enemies want to swallow me up all day long, for they are many who fight proudly against me.

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    11 For they intended evil against you. They plotted evil against you which cannot succeed.

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

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  • 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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    16 For dogs have surrounded me. A company of evildoers have enclosed me. They have pierced my hands and feet.

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    16 But now you number my steps. Don't you watch over my sin?

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

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  • Job 33:11
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    11 He puts my feet in the stocks. He marks all my paths.'

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