Psalms 62:3

World English Bible (2000)

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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  • Ps 4:2 : 2 You sons of men, how long shall my glory be turned into dishonor? Will you love vanity, and seek after falsehood? Selah.
  • Ps 21:11 : 11 For they intended evil against you. They plotted evil against you which cannot succeed.
  • Ps 38:12 : 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 82:2 : 2 "How long will you judge unjustly, and show partiality to the wicked?" Selah.
  • Ps 140:2 : 2 those who devise mischief in their hearts. They continually gather themselves together for war.
  • Prov 1:22 : 22 "How long, you simple ones, will you love simplicity? How long will mockers delight themselves in mockery, and fools hate knowledge?
  • Exod 16:28 : 28 Yahweh said to Moses, "How long do you refuse to keep my commandments and my laws?
  • Jer 4:14 : 14 Jerusalem, wash your heart from wickedness, that you may be saved. How long shall your evil thoughts lodge within you?
  • Hos 7:15 : 15 Though I have taught and strengthened their arms, yet they plot evil against me.
  • Matt 17:17 : 17 Jesus answered, "Faithless and perverse generation! How long will I be with you? How long will I bear with you? Bring him here to me."
  • 1 Sam 26:10 : 10 David said, "As Yahweh lives, Yahweh will strike him; or his day shall come to die; or he shall go down into battle and perish.
  • Exod 10:3 : 3 Moses and Aaron went in to Pharaoh, and said to him, "This is what Yahweh, the God of the Hebrews, says: 'How long will you refuse to humble yourself before me? Let my people go, that they may serve me.
  • Prov 6:9 : 9 How long will you sleep, sluggard? When will you arise out of your sleep?
  • Isa 30:13-14 : 13 therefore this iniquity shall be to you like a breach ready to fall, swelling out in a high wall, whose breaking comes suddenly in an instant. 14 He will break it as a potter's vessel is broken, breaking it in pieces without sparing, so that there won't be found among the broken piece a piece good enough to take fire from the hearth, or to dip up water out of the cistern."
  • Ps 73:18-20 : 18 Surely you set them in slippery places. You throw them down to destruction. 19 How they are suddenly destroyed! They are completely swept away with terrors. 20 As a dream when one wakes up, so, Lord, when you awake, you will despise their fantasies.

Similar Verses (AI)

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  • Ps 62:4
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    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 21:11-12
    2 verses
    75%

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

    12 For you will make them turn their back, when you aim drawn bows at their face.

  • Ps 52:5
    75%

    5 God will likewise destroy you forever. He will take you up, and pluck you out of your tent, and root you out of the land of the living. Selah.

  • Ps 89:40-41
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    75%

    40 You have broken down all his hedges. You have brought his strongholds to ruin.

    41 All who pass by the way rob him. He has become a reproach to his neighbors.

  • Ps 140:2
    75%

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

  • Jer 18:22-23
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    74%

    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 64:7-8
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    73%

    7 But God will shoot at them. They will be suddenly struck down with an arrow.

    8 Their own tongues shall ruin them. All who see them will shake their heads.

  • Ps 5:10
    73%

    10 Hold them guilty, God. Let them fall by their own counsels; Thrust them out in the multitude of their transgressions, for they have rebelled against you.

  • Lam 3:60-62
    3 verses
    73%

    60 You have seen all their vengeance and all their devices against me.

    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.

  • Nah 1:9-11
    3 verses
    73%

    9 What do you plot against Yahweh? He will make a full end. Affliction won't rise up the second time.

    10 For entangled like thorns, and drunken as with their drink, they are consumed utterly like dry stubble.

    11 There is one gone forth out of you, who devises evil against Yahweh, who counsels wickedness.

  • Ps 55:10
    73%

    10 Day and night they prowl around on its walls. Malice and abuse are also within her.

  • Ps 38:12
    73%

    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 37:14-15
    2 verses
    73%

    14 The wicked have drawn out the sword, and have bent their bow, to cast down the poor and needy, to kill those who are upright in the way.

    15 Their sword shall enter into their own heart. Their bows shall be broken.

  • Ps 56:5
    73%

    5 All day long they twist my words. All their thoughts are against me for evil.

  • Isa 30:13
    73%

    13 therefore this iniquity shall be to you like a breach ready to fall, swelling out in a high wall, whose breaking comes suddenly in an instant.

  • Ps 140:9
    73%

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

  • Ps 83:3
    73%

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

  • Ps 92:7
    73%

    7 though the wicked spring up as the grass, and all the evildoers flourish, they will be destroyed forever.

  • Ezek 16:40
    73%

    40 They shall also bring up a company against you, and they shall stone you with stones, and thrust you through with their swords.

  • Ps 55:23
    72%

    23 But you, God, will bring them down into the pit of destruction. Bloodthirsty and deceitful men shall not live out half their days, but I will trust in you. For the Chief Musician. To the tune of "Silent Dove in Distant Lands." A poem by David, when the Philistines seized him in Gath.

  • Ps 73:18
    72%

    18 Surely you set them in slippery places. You throw them down to destruction.

  • Ps 55:20
    72%

    20 He raises his hands against his friends. He has violated his covenant.

  • Ps 11:2
    72%

    2 For, behold, the wicked bend their bows. They set their arrows on the strings, that they may shoot in darkness at the upright in heart.

  • Ps 64:3-4
    2 verses
    72%

    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.

  • Ps 94:4
    71%

    4 They pour out arrogant words. All the evildoers boast.

  • Jer 20:10
    71%

    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.

  • Ps 37:32
    71%

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

  • Ezek 26:9
    71%

    9 He shall set his battering engines against your walls, and with his axes he shall break down your towers.

  • Ps 13:2
    71%

    2 How long shall I take counsel in my soul, having sorrow in my heart every day? How long shall my enemy triumph over me?

  • Ps 52:1-2
    2 verses
    71%

    1 Why do you boast of mischief, mighty man? God's loving kindness endures continually.

    2 Your tongue plots destruction, like a sharp razor, working deceitfully.

  • Ps 58:7
    71%

    7 Let them vanish as water that flows away. When they draw the bow, let their arrows be made blunt.

  • Prov 24:15
    71%

    15 Don't lay in wait, wicked man, against the habitation of the righteous. Don't destroy his resting place:

  • Ps 57:6
    71%

    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.

  • Jer 11:19
    71%

    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.

  • Ps 28:3
    71%

    3 Don't draw me away with the wicked, with the workers of iniquity who speak peace with their neighbors, but mischief is in their hearts.

  • Ps 37:2
    71%

    2 For they shall soon be cut down like the grass, and wither like the green herb.

  • Ps 35:20
    71%

    20 For they don't speak peace, but they devise deceitful words against those who are quiet in the land.

  • Ps 83:5
    71%

    5 For they have conspired together with one mind. They form an alliance against you.

  • Ps 62:2
    71%

    2 He alone is my rock and my salvation, my fortress-- I will never be greatly shaken.