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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.
New American Standard Bible
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They
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
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.
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,
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Word Count of 20 Translations in Psalm 31:13
Verse Info
Context Readings
A Plea For Protection
12 I have become forgotten like [one] dead, out of {mind}. I am like a destroyed vessel. 13 For I hear [the] rumor of many, "Terror on every side!" When conspiring together against me, they have plotted to take my life. 14 But as for me, I trust you, O Yahweh. I say, "You [are] my God."
Cross References
Jeremiah 20:10
For I hear the rumor of many, "Terror [is] from all around, denounce [him], yes, let us denounce him!" {All my close friends} [are] watchers of my stumbling, [saying], "perhaps he can be persuaded, and we can prevail over him, and we can take our revenge on him."
Matthew 27:1
Now [when it] was early morning, all the chief priests and the elders of the people took counsel against Jesus in order to put him to death.
Lamentations 2:22
You have summoned my horror from all around, as if for a feast day; no one on the day of Yahweh's anger [is] a fugitive and a survivor; whoever I have cared for and reared, my enemy has destroyed.
2 Samuel 17:1-4
Then Ahithophel said to Absalom, "Please let me choose twelve thousand men, and I will set out and pursue after David {tonight}.
1 Samuel 19:10-17
So Saul tried {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 [same] night.
1 Samuel 20:33
Then Saul hurled his spear at him to kill him. So Jonathan knew {that his father had decided} to kill David.
1 Samuel 22:8-10
For all of you have conspired against me, and {no one discloses to me} the {making} [of an agreement] between my son and the son of Jesse! None of you have had sympathy for me or {disclosed to me} [that] {my son commissioned my servant against me to ambush me} as [has been done] 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 Hakilah, which [is] south of Jeshimon
1 Samuel 24:9
Then David said to Saul, "Why do you listen to the words of people who say: 'Look, David [is] {seeking to do you harm}'?
Psalm 55:10
Day and night they go around it on its walls, and iniquity and trouble [are] in its midst.
Psalm 56:1-3
Be gracious to me, O God, because humankind has trampled me; fighting all the day he oppresses me.
Psalm 57:4
My soul [is] among lions. I lie down [among those who] devour-- the children of humankind whose teeth [are] spears and arrows and whose tongues [are] sharp swords.
Psalm 101:5
One who slanders his neighbor in secret, him I will destroy. [One] haughty of eyes and {arrogant} of heart, him I will not endure.
Jeremiah 6:25
You must not go out [into] the field, and you must not walk on the road, for {the enemy has a sword}, terror [is] all around.
Jeremiah 11:19
And I [was] like a gentle ram-lamb that is brought to slaughter, and I did not know that they planned plans against me, [saying], "Let us destroy the tree with its fruit, and let us cut him off from [the] land of [the] living, so that his name will no longer be remembered."
Jeremiah 20:3-4
{And then} on the next day, when Pashhur brought Jeremiah out from the stocks, Jeremiah said to him, "Yahweh will not call your name Pashhur, {but} Terror From All Around.
Matthew 26:3-4
Then the chief priests and the elders of the people assembled in the palace of the high priest, who was named Caiaphas,
Matthew 26:59
Now the chief priests and the whole Sanhedrin were looking for false testimony against Jesus in order that they could put him to death.
Luke 23:1-2
And the whole assembly of them rose up [and] brought him before Pilate.
Luke 23:5
But they insisted, saying, "He incites the people, teaching throughout the whole of Judea and beginning from Galilee as far as here."