Psalm 31:13

A Plea For Protection

¹² Like a dead man, I am forgotten in their thoughts like broken pottery. ¹³ I have heard the slander of many; it is like terror all around me, as they conspire together and plot 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

Indeed, I hear many people whispering, "Terror on every side. Denounce him, let's denounce him!" All my close friends watch my steps and say, "Perhaps he will be deceived, and we can prevail against him and take vengeance on him."

Matthew 27:1

When morning came, all the high priests and elders of the people conspired against Jesus to put him to death.

Lamentations 2:22

You have invited those who terrorize me to come around, as if today were a festival. No one has escaped or survived the time of the LORD's anger. My enemy has finished off those whom I cuddled and raised.

1 Samuel 19:10-17

Saul tried to pin David to the wall with the spear, but he jumped away from Saul and the spear stuck in the wall. That night David escaped and fled.

1 Samuel 20:33

Then Saul threw the spear that was beside him to strike Jonathan down. So Jonathan realized that his father was determined to kill David.

1 Samuel 22:8-10

But all of you have conspired against me, and no one tells me about my son's covenant with Jesse's son. None of you feels sorry for me and tells me that my son has stirred up my servant against me to lie in wait, as he's doing this day."

1 Samuel 23:19-20

People from Ziph came up to Saul at Gibeah and informed him, "David is hiding with us in the strongholds in Horesh and on the hill of Hachilah south of Jeshimon, isn't he?

1 Samuel 24:9

Then David told Saul, "Why do you listen to the words of those who say, "Look, David is trying to harm you?'

Psalm 55:10

Day and night they prowl around its walls; evil and iniquity are within it.

Psalm 56:1-3

Have mercy on me, God, because men have harassed me. Those who oppress me have fought against me all day long.

Psalm 57:4

I am surrounded by lions. I lie down with those who burn with fire that is, with people whose teeth are like spears and arrows whose tongues are like sharp swords.

Psalm 101:5

I will destroy the one who secretly slanders a friend. I will not allow the proud and haughty to prevail.

Jeremiah 6:25

Don't go out into the field, and don't travel on the road, because the enemy has a sword, and terror is on every side.

Jeremiah 11:19

I was like a gentle lamb led to the slaughter. I didn't know that they had devised schemes against me. They told themselves, "Let's destroy the tree with its fruit. Let's eliminate him from the land of the living, so his name won't be remembered again."

Jeremiah 20:3-4

The next day, Pashhur released Jeremiah from the stocks, and Jeremiah told him, "The LORD has not named you Pashhur, but rather Magor-missabib.

Matthew 26:3-4

Then the high priests and the elders of the people assembled in the courtyard of the high priest, who was named Caiaphas.

Matthew 26:59

Meanwhile, the high priests and the whole Council were looking for false testimony against Jesus in order to have him put to death.

Luke 23:1-2

Then the whole crowd got up and took him to Pilate.

Luke 23:5

But they kept insisting, "He is stirring up the people with what he teaches all over Judea, from where he started in Galilee to this place."