Psalms 31:13
For I have heard the slander of many: fear was on every side: while they took counsel together against me, they devised to take away my life.
KJV
For I have heard the defaming of many, Terror on every side: While they took counsel together against me, They devised to take away my life.
ASV
נִ֭שְׁכַּחְתִּי כְּ/מֵ֣ת מִ/לֵּ֑ב הָ֝יִ֗יתִי כִּ/כְלִ֥י אֹבֵֽד
Hebrew
For I have heard an evil account of many, Fear is round about. In their being united against me, To take my life they have devised,
YLT
For I have heard the slander of many, terror on every side, while they conspire together against me, they plot to take away my life.
WEB
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In the original Hebrew
6 distinct Hebrew words appear in this verse.
Historic Christian voices
2 passages from patristic writers, Reformers, and church catechisms citing this verse.
Cross-references
- 1Sam 20:33 — And Saul cast a javelin at him to smite him: whereby Jonathan knew that it was determined of his father to slay David.
- 2Sam 17:1 — Moreover Ahithophel said unto Absalom, Let me now choose out twelve thousand men, and I will arise and pursue after David this night:
- Acts 23:12 — And when it was day, certain of the Jews banded together, and bound themselves under a curse, saying that they would neither eat nor drink till they had killed Paul.
- Gen 32:7 — Then Jacob was greatly afraid and distressed: and he divided the people that was with him, and the flocks, and herds, and the camels, into two bands;
- Gen 37:18 — And when they saw him afar off, even before he came near unto them, they conspired against him to slay him.
- Jer 6:25 — Go not forth into the field, nor walk by the way; for the sword of the enemy and fear is on every side.
- Jer 11:19 — But I was like a lamb or an ox that is brought to the slaughter; and I knew not that they had devised devices against me, saying, Let us destroy the tree with the fruit thereof, and let us cut him off
- Jer 20:3 — And it came to pass on the morrow, that Pashur brought forth Jeremiah out of the stocks. Then said Jeremiah unto him, The LORD hath not called thy name Pashur, but Magormissabib.
- Jer 20:10 — For I heard the defaming of many, fear on every side. Report, say they, and we will report it. All my familiars watched for my halting, saying, Peradventure he will be enticed, and we shall prevail ag
- Jer 20:10 — For I heard the defaming of many, fear on every side. Report, say they, and we will report it. All my familiars watched for my halting, saying, Peradventure he will be enticed, and we shall prevail ag
- Lam 2:22 — Thou hast called as in a solemn day my terrors round about, so that in the day of the LORD’s anger none escaped nor remained: those that I have swaddled and brought up hath mine enemy consumed.
- Lam 2:22 — Thou hast called as in a solemn day my terrors round about, so that in the day of the LORD’s anger none escaped nor remained: those that I have swaddled and brought up hath mine enemy consumed.
- 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,
- Matt 26:59 — Now the chief priests, and elders, and all the council, sought false witness against Jesus, to put him to death;
- Matt 27:1 — When the morning was come, all the chief priests and elders of the people took counsel against Jesus to put him to death:
- Ps 21:11 — For they intended evil against thee: they imagined a mischievous device, which they are not able to perform.
- Ps 35:20 — For they speak not peace: but they devise deceitful matters against them that are quiet in the land.
- Ps 37:12 — The wicked plotteth against the just, and gnasheth upon him with his teeth.
- Ps 64:1 — Hear my voice, O God, in my prayer: preserve my life from fear of the enemy.
- Ps 71:10 — For mine enemies speak against me; and they that lay wait for my soul take counsel together,
- Ps 109:2 — For the mouth of the wicked and the mouth of the deceitful are opened against me: they have spoken against me with a lying tongue.