Parallel Verses

New American Standard Bible

For I have heard the slander of many,
Terror is on every side;
While they took counsel together against me,
They schemed to take away my life.

King James Version

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.

Holman Bible

I have heard the gossip of many;
terror is on every side.
When they conspired against me,
they plotted to take my life.

International Standard Version

I have heard the slander of many; it is like terror all around me, as they conspire together and plot to take my life.

A Conservative Version

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.

American Standard Version

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.

Amplified


For I have heard the slander and whispering of many,
Terror is on every side;
While they schemed together against me,
They plotted to take away my life.

Bible in Basic English

False statements against me have come to my ears; fear was on every side: they were talking together against me, designing to take away my life.

Darby Translation

For I have heard the slander of many terror on every side when they take counsel together against me: they plot to take away my life.

Julia Smith Translation

For I heard the slander of many sojourning round about: in their sitting together against me they purposed to take away my soul

King James 2000

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.

Lexham Expanded Bible

For I hear [the] rumor of many, "Terror on every side!" When conspiring together against me, they have plotted to take my life.

Modern King James verseion

For I have heard the slander of many; fear is on every side; because of their plottings together against me, they planned to take away my life.

Modern Spelling Tyndale-Coverdale

For I have heard the blasphemy of the multitude, and fear is on every side, while they conspire together against me, and take their counsel to take away my life.

NET Bible

For I hear what so many are saying, the terrifying news that comes from every direction. When they plot together against me, they figure out how they can take my life.

New Heart English Bible

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.

The Emphasized Bible

For I have heard the whispering of many - A terror round about! When they have sat in conclave together against me, to take away my life, have they intrigued.

Webster

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.

World English Bible

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.

Youngs Literal Translation

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,

References

Fausets

Context Readings

A Plea For Protection

12 I have been forgotten like one who is dead; I have become like a broken vessel. 13 For I have heard the slander of many,
Terror is on every side;
While they took counsel together against me,
They schemed to take away my life.
14 But I trust in you, O LORD; I say, "You are my God."

Cross References

Jeremiah 20:10

For I hear many whispering. Terror is on every side! "Denounce him! Let us denounce him!" say all my close friends, watching for my fall. "Perhaps he will be deceived; then we can overcome him and take our revenge on him."

Matthew 27:1

When morning came, all the chief priests and the elders of the people took counsel against Jesus to put him to death.

Lamentations 2:22

You summoned as if to a festival day my terrors on every side, and on the day of the anger of the LORD no one escaped or survived; those whom I held and raised my enemy destroyed.

2 Samuel 17:1-4

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

1 Samuel 19:10-17

And Saul sought to pin David to the wall with the spear, but he eluded Saul, so that he struck the spear into the wall. And David fled and escaped that night.

1 Samuel 20:33

But Saul hurled his spear at him to strike him. So 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? No one discloses to me when my son makes a covenant with the son of Jesse. None of you 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 went up to Saul at Gibeah, saying, "Is not David hiding among us in the strongholds at Horesh, on the hill of Hachilah, which is south of Jeshimon

1 Samuel 24:9

And David said to Saul, "Why do you listen to the words of men who say, 'Behold, David seeks your harm'?

Psalm 55:10

Day and night they go around it on its walls, and iniquity and trouble are within it;

Psalm 56:1-3

Be gracious to me, O God, for man tramples on me; all day long an attacker oppresses me;

Psalm 57:4

My soul is in the midst of lions; I lie down amid fiery beasts-- the children of man, whose teeth are spears and arrows, whose tongues are sharp swords.

Psalm 101:5

Whoever slanders his neighbor secretly I will destroy. Whoever has a haughty look and an arrogant heart I will not endure.

Jeremiah 6:25

Go not out into the field, nor walk on the road, for the enemy has a sword; terror is on every side.

Jeremiah 11:19

But I was like a gentle lamb led to the slaughter. I did not know it was against me they devised schemes, saying, "Let us destroy the tree with its fruit, let us cut him off from the land of the living, that his name be remembered no more."

Jeremiah 20:3-4

The next day, when Pashhur released Jeremiah from the stocks, Jeremiah said to him, "The LORD does not call your name Pashhur, but Terror On Every Side.

Matthew 26:3-4

Then the chief priests and the elders of the people gathered in the palace of the high priest, whose name was Caiaphas,

Matthew 26:59

Now the chief priests and the whole Councilwere seeking false testimony against Jesus that they might put him to death,

Luke 23:1-2

Then the whole company of them arose and brought him before Pilate.

Luke 23:5

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

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