Psalm 31:13

A Plea For Protection

¹² I am forgotten from their hearts like a dead man. I am like broken pottery. ¹³ 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. ¹⁴ But I trust in you, LORD. I said, "You are my God."

Fear is on Every Side

Terror On Every Side

Jeremiah 20:10

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."

Matthew 27:1

Now when morning had come, all the chief priests and the elders of the people took counsel against Jesus to put him to death:

Lamentations 2:22

You have called, as in the day of a solemn assembly, my terrors on every side. There was none that escaped or remained in the day of the LORD's anger. Those that I have borne and brought up has my enemy destroyed.

2 Samuel 17:1-4

Moreover Ahithophel said to Absalom, "Let me now choose twelve thousand men, and I will arise and pursue after David tonight.

1 Samuel 19:10-17

Saul sought to pin David even to the wall with the spear; but he slipped away out of Saul's presence, and he stuck the spear into the wall. David fled, and escaped that night.

1 Samuel 20:33

Saul cast his spear at him to strike him. By this Jonathan knew that his father was determined to put David to death.

1 Samuel 22:8-10

that all of you have conspired against me, and there is none who discloses to me when my son makes a treaty with the son of Jesse, and there is none of you who is sorry for me, or discloses to me that my son has stirred up my servant against me, to lie in wait, as at this day?"

1 Samuel 23:19-20

Then the Ziphites came up to Saul to Gibeah, saying, "Doesn't David hide himself with us in the strongholds in the wood, in the hill of Hachilah, which is on the south of the desert?

1 Samuel 24:9

David said to Saul, "Why do you listen to men's words, saying, 'Behold, David seeks your hurt?'

Psalm 55:10

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

Psalm 56:1-3

Be merciful to me, God, for man wants to swallow me up. All day long, he attacks and oppresses me.

Psalm 57:4

My soul is among lions. I lie among those who are set on fire, even the sons of men, whose teeth are spears and arrows, and their tongue a sharp sword.

Psalm 101:5

I will silence whoever secretly slanders his neighbor. I won't tolerate one who is haughty and conceited.

Jeremiah 6:25

Do not go forth into the field, nor walk by the way; for the sword of the enemy and terror, are on every side."

Jeremiah 11:19

But I was like a gentle lamb that is led to the slaughter; and I did not 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."

Jeremiah 20:3-4

It happened on the next day, that Pashhur brought forth Jeremiah out of the stocks. Then Jeremiah said to him, "The LORD has not called your name 'Pashhur,' but 'Magor-Missabib.'

Matthew 26:3-4

Then the chief priests and the elders of the people were gathered together in the court of the high priest, who was called Caiaphas.

Matthew 26:59

Now the chief priests and the whole council sought false testimony against Jesus so they could put him to death;

Luke 23:1-2

The whole company of them rose up and brought him before Pilate.

Luke 23:5

But they insisted, saying, "He stirs up the people, teaching throughout all Judea, beginning from Galilee even to this place."