Psalm 31:13

A Plea For Protection

¹² I am forgotten: gone from memory
like a dead person—like broken pottery.
¹³ I have heard the gossip of many;
terror is on every side.
When they conspired against me,
they plotted to take my life. ¹⁴ But I trust in You, Lord;
I say, “You are my God.”

Fear is on Every Side

Terror On Every Side

Jeremiah 20:10

For I have heard the gossip of many people,
“Terror is on every side!
Report him; let’s report him!”
Everyone I trusted watches for my fall.
“Perhaps he will be deceived
so that we might prevail against him
and take our vengeance on him.”

Matthew 27:1

When daybreak came, all the chief priests and the elders of the people plotted against Jesus to put Him to death.

Lamentations 2:22

ת TavYou summoned my attackers on every side,
as if for an appointed festival day;
on the day of the Lord’s anger
no one escaped or survived.
My enemy has destroyed
those I nurtured and reared.

2 Samuel 17:1-4

Ahithophel said to Absalom, “Let me choose 12,000 men, and I will set out in pursuit of David tonight.

1 Samuel 19:10-17

and Saul tried to pin David to the wall with the spear. As the spear struck the wall, David eluded Saul, ran away, and escaped that night.

1 Samuel 20:33

Then Saul threw his spear at Jonathan to kill him, so he knew that his father was determined to kill David.

1 Samuel 22:8-10

That’s why all of you have conspired against me! Nobody tells me when my own son makes a covenant with Jesse’s son. None of you cares about me or tells me that my son has stirred up my own servant to wait in ambush for me, as is the case today.”

1 Samuel 23:19-20

Some Ziphites came up to Saul at Gibeah and said, “David is hiding among us in the strongholds in Horesh on the hill of Hachilah south of Jeshimon.

1 Samuel 24:9

David said to Saul, “Why do you listen to the words of people who say, ‘Look, David intends to harm you’?

Psalm 55:10

day and night they make the rounds on its walls.
Crime and trouble are within it;

Psalm 56:1-3

For the choir director: according to “A Silent Dove Far Away.” A Davidic Miktam. When the Philistines seized him in Gath.Be gracious to me, God, for man tramples me;
he fights and oppresses me all day long.

Psalm 57:4

I am surrounded by lions;
I lie down with those who devour men.
Their teeth are spears and arrows;
their tongues are sharp swords.

Psalm 101:5

I will destroy anyone
who secretly slanders his neighbor;
I cannot tolerate anyone
with haughty eyes or an arrogant heart.

Jeremiah 6:25

Don’t go out to the fields;
don’t walk on the road.
For the enemy has a sword;
terror is on every side.

Jeremiah 11:19

for I was like a docile lamb led to slaughter.
I didn’t know that they had devised plots against me:
“Let’s destroy the tree with its fruit;
let’s cut him off from the land of the living
so that his name will no longer be remembered.”

Jeremiah 20:3-4

The next day, when Pashhur released Jeremiah from the stocks, Jeremiah said to him, “The Lord does not call you Pashhur, but Magor-missabib,

Matthew 26:3-4

Then the chief priests and the elders of the people assembled in the palace of the high priest, who was called Caiaphas,

Matthew 26:59

The chief priests and the whole Sanhedrin were looking for false testimony against Jesus so they could put Him to death.

Luke 23:1-2

Then their whole assembly rose up and brought Him before Pilate.

Luke 23:5

But they kept insisting, “He stirs up the people, teaching throughout all Judea, from Galilee where He started even to here.”