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Psalms 119:95

The wicked have waited for me to destroy me: but I will consider thy testimonies.

KJV

The wicked have waited for me, to destroy me; But I will consider thy testimonies.

ASV

לִ֤/י קִוּ֣וּ רְשָׁעִ֣ים לְ/אַבְּדֵ֑/נִי עֵ֝דֹתֶ֗י/ךָ אֶתְבּוֹנָֽן

Hebrew

Thy wicked waited for me to destroy me, Thy testimonies I understand.

YLT

The wicked have waited for me, to destroy me. I will consider your statutes.

WEB

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In the original Hebrew

5 distinct Hebrew words appear in this verse.

יָבִ֥ין
ybyn
verb · 168×
ךָ
k
noun · 26×
ם
m
verb · 183×
קַוֵּ֥ה
qvh
verb · 48×
רְשָׁעִ֣ים
rsh'ym
adjective · 257×

Historic Christian voices

2 passages from patristic writers, Reformers, and church catechisms citing this verse.

Cross-references

  • 1Sam 23:20 — Now therefore, O king, come down according to all the desire of thy soul to come down; and our part shall be to deliver him into the king’s hand.
  • Acts 12:11 — And when Peter was come to himself, he said, Now I know of a surety, that the LORD hath sent his angel, and hath delivered me out of the hand of Herod, and from all the expectation of the people of th
  • Acts 23:21 — But do not thou yield unto them: for there lie in wait for him of them more than forty men, which have bound themselves with an oath, that they will neither eat nor drink till they have killed him: an
  • Acts 25:3 — And desired favour against him, that he would send for him to Jerusalem, laying wait in the way to kill him.
  • Jer 18:20 — Shall evil be recompensed for good? for they have digged a pit for my soul. Remember that I stood before thee to speak good for them, and to turn away thy wrath from them.
  • Matt 26:3 — Then assembled together the chief priests, and the scribes, and the elders of the people, unto the palace of the high priest, who was called Caiaphas,
  • Ps 10:8 — He sitteth in the lurking places of the villages: in the secret places doth he murder the innocent: his eyes are privily set against the poor.
  • Ps 27:2 — When the wicked, even mine enemies and my foes, came upon me to eat up my flesh, they stumbled and fell.
  • Ps 37:32 — The wicked watcheth the righteous, and seeketh to slay him.
  • Ps 38:12 — They also that seek after my life lay snares for me: and they that seek my hurt speak mischievous things, and imagine deceits all the day long.
  • Ps 119:24 — Thy testimonies also are my delight and my counsellors.
  • Ps 119:31 — I have stuck unto thy testimonies: O LORD, put me not to shame.
  • Ps 119:61 — The bands of the wicked have robbed me: but I have not forgotten thy law.
  • Ps 119:61 — The bands of the wicked have robbed me: but I have not forgotten thy law.
  • Ps 119:69 — The proud have forged a lie against me: but I will keep thy precepts with my whole heart.
  • Ps 119:85 — The proud have digged pits for me, which are not after thy law.
  • Ps 119:110 — The wicked have laid a snare for me: yet I erred not from thy precepts.
  • Ps 119:125 — I am thy servant; give me understanding, that I may know thy testimonies.
  • Ps 119:129 — Thy testimonies are wonderful: therefore doth my soul keep them.
  • Ps 119:167 — My soul hath kept thy testimonies; and I love them exceedingly.