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Psalms 38:16

For I said, Hear me, lest otherwise they should rejoice over me: when my foot slippeth, they magnify themselves against me.

KJV

For I said, Lest they rejoice over me: When my foot slippeth, they magnify themselves against me.

ASV

כִּֽי לְ/ךָ֣ יְהוָ֣ה הוֹחָ֑לְתִּי אַתָּ֥ה תַ֝עֲנֶ֗ה אֲדֹנָ֥/י אֱלֹהָֽ/י

Hebrew

When I said, `Lest they rejoice over me, In the slipping of my foot against me they magnified themselves.

YLT

For I said, “Don’t let them gloat over me, or exalt themselves over me when my foot slips.”

WEB

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In the original Hebrew

7 distinct Hebrew words appear in this verse.

אַתָּ֣ה
'th
pronoun · 1088×
י
y
noun · 440×
יְהוָ֖ה
yhvh
proper_noun · 6455×
יִחָֽלְתִּי
ychlty
verb · 40×
ךָ
k
noun · 2564×
כִּֽי
ky
pronoun · 4439×
נִי
ny
verb · 325×

Historic Christian voices

1 passage from patristic writers, Reformers, and church catechisms citing this verse.

Cross-references

  • Deut 32:35 — To me belongeth vengeance, and recompence; their foot shall slide in due time: for the day of their calamity is at hand, and the things that shall come upon them make haste.
  • Job 19:5 — If indeed ye will magnify yourselves against me, and plead against me my reproach:
  • Lam 2:17 — The LORD hath done that which he had devised; he hath fulfilled his word that he had commanded in the days of old: he hath thrown down, and hath not pitied: and he hath caused thine enemy to rejoice o
  • Mic 7:8 — Rejoice not against me, O mine enemy: when I fall, I shall arise; when I sit in darkness, the LORD shall be a light unto me.
  • Ps 13:3 — Consider and hear me, O LORD my God: lighten mine eyes, lest I sleep the sleep of death;
  • Ps 13:4 — Lest mine enemy say, I have prevailed against him; and those that trouble me rejoice when I am moved.
  • Ps 17:5 — Hold up my goings in thy paths, that my footsteps slip not.
  • Ps 27:12 — Deliver me not over unto the will of mine enemies: for false witnesses are risen up against me, and such as breathe out cruelty.
  • Ps 35:19 — Let not them that are mine enemies wrongfully rejoice over me: neither let them wink with the eye that hate me without a cause.
  • Ps 35:24 — Judge me, O LORD my God, according to thy righteousness; and let them not rejoice over me.
  • Ps 35:26 — Let them be ashamed and brought to confusion together that rejoice at mine hurt: let them be clothed with shame and dishonour that magnify themselves against me.
  • Ps 73:2 — But as for me, my feet were almost gone; my steps had well nigh slipped.
  • Ps 94:18 — When I said, My foot slippeth; thy mercy, O LORD, held me up.
  • Ps 94:18 — When I said, My foot slippeth; thy mercy, O LORD, held me up.