Psalms 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.
KJV
A fortitudine manus tuæ ego defeci in increpationibus : propter iniquitatem corripuisti hominem. Et tabescere fecisti sicut araneam animam ejus : verumtamen vane conturbatur omnis homo.
Vulgate
ἐν ἐλεγμοῖς ὑπὲρ ἀνομίας ἐπαίδευσας ἄνθρωπον, καὶ ἐξέτηξας ὡς ἀράχνην τὴν ψυχὴν αὐτοῦ· πλὴν μάτην ταράσσεται πᾶς ἄνθρωπος. διάψαλμα.
LXX
They also that seek after my life lay snares for me; And they that seek my hurt speak mischievous things, And meditate deceits all the day long.
ASV
אֹֽהֲבַ֨/י וְ/רֵעַ֗/י מִ/נֶּ֣גֶד נִגְעִ֣/י יַעֲמֹ֑דוּ וּ֝/קְרוֹבַ֗/י מֵ/רָחֹ֥ק עָמָֽדוּ
Hebrew
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In the original Hebrew
7 distinct Hebrew words appear in this verse.
Historic Christian voices
4 passages from patristic writers, Reformers, and church catechisms citing this verse.
1. The first virtue, yea the whole of virtue, is to be a stranger to this world, and a sojourner, and to have nothing in common with things here, but to hang loose from them, as from things strange to us; As those blessed disciples did, of whom he says, They wandered about in sheepskins, and in goat-skins, being destitute, afflicted, tormented: of whom the world was not worthy.…
Cross-references
- 1Pet 2:23 — Who, when he was reviled, reviled not again; when he suffered, he threatened not; but committed himself to him that judgeth righteously:
- 2Sam 16:7 — And thus said Shimei when he cursed, Come out, come out, thou bloody man, and thou man of Belial:
- 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:
- John 8:6 — This they said, tempting him, that they might have to accuse him. But Jesus stooped down, and with his finger wrote on the ground, as though he heard them not.
- Luke 6:7 — And the scribes and Pharisees watched him, whether he would heal on the sabbath day; that they might find an accusation against him.
- Luke 20:19 — And the chief priests and the scribes the same hour sought to lay hands on him; and they feared the people: for they perceived that he had spoken this parable against them.
- Ps 35:4 — Let them be confounded and put to shame that seek after my soul: let them be turned back and brought to confusion that devise my hurt.
- Ps 35:4 — Let them be confounded and put to shame that seek after my soul: let them be turned back and brought to confusion that devise my hurt.
- Ps 35:20 — For they speak not peace: but they devise deceitful matters against them that are quiet in the land.
- Ps 35:20 — For they speak not peace: but they devise deceitful matters against them that are quiet in the land.
- Ps 41:5 — Mine enemies speak evil of me, When shall he die, and his name perish?
- Ps 54:3 — For strangers are risen up against me, and oppressors seek after my soul: they have not set God before them. Selah.
- Ps 59:3 — For, lo, they lie in wait for my soul: the mighty are gathered against me; not for my transgression, nor for my sin, O LORD.
- Ps 62:3 — How long will ye imagine mischief against a man? ye shall be slain all of you: as a bowing wall shall ye be, and as a tottering fence.
- Ps 63:9 — But those that seek my soul, to destroy it, shall go into the lower parts of the earth.
- Ps 64:2 — Hide me from the secret counsel of the wicked; from the insurrection of the workers of iniquity:
- Ps 119:95 — The wicked have waited for me to destroy me: but I will consider thy testimonies.
- Ps 119:110 — The wicked have laid a snare for me: yet I erred not from thy precepts.
- Ps 140:2 — Which imagine mischiefs in their heart; continually are they gathered together for war.
- Ps 140:5 — The proud have hid a snare for me, and cords; they have spread a net by the wayside; they have set gins for me. Selah.
- Ps 141:9 — Keep me from the snares which they have laid for me, and the gins of the workers of iniquity.
- Ps 141:9 — Keep me from the snares which they have laid for me, and the gins of the workers of iniquity.