Psalm 31:13

A Plea For Protection

¹² I am clean forgotten, as a dead man, out of mind; I am become like a broken vessel. ¹³ 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. ¹⁴ But my hope hath been in thee, O LORD; I have said, "Thou art my God."

Fear is on Every Side

Terror On Every Side

Jeremiah 20:10

For why? I heard so many derisions and blasphemies, yea even of my own companions, and such as were conversant with me: which went about, to make me afraid, saying, "Upon him; let us go upon him, to fear him, and make him hold his tongue: that we may overcome him, and be avenged of him."

Matthew 27:1

when the morning was come, all the chief priests and the elders of the people held a counsel against Jesus, to put him to death,

Lamentations 2:22

{Tav} My neighbours that are round about me hast thou called, as it were to a feast day: so that in the day of the LORD's wrath none escaped, neither was any left behind. Those that I had brought up and nourished, hath mine enemy destroyed.

2 Samuel 17:1-4

Then Ahithophel said unto Absalom, "Let me choose out, I pray thee, twelve thousand men. And I will up and follow after David by night.

1 Samuel 19:10-17

And Saul intended to nail David to the wall with the Javelin: But David rid himself out of Saul's presence and he smote the spear into the wall. But David fled and saved himself that same night.

1 Samuel 20:33

Then Saul cast a spear at him to hit him, whereby Jonathan wist well, that it was utterly determined of his father to slay David.

1 Samuel 22:8-10

that ye have all conspired against me? So that there is none of you that openeth mine ear? Insomuch that my son hath made a bond with the son of Jesse, neither is there any of you that mourneth for me or showeth it in mine ear: because my son hath set up my servant to lie await against me, as it appeareth this day."

1 Samuel 23:19-20

Then came the Ziphites to Saul, to Gibeah, saying, "David hideth himself fast by us in strongholds that are in a thicket in the hill of Hachilah on the rightside of the wilderness.

1 Samuel 24:9

and said to Saul, "Wherefore giveth thou an ear to men's words, that say, 'David seeketh thee evil?'

Psalm 55:10

This goeth day and night about the walls; mischief and vice are in the midst of it.

Psalm 56:1-3

{To the chanter, upon the domme stock dove, which flyeth far off: Michtam of David, when the Philistines took him in Gath} Be merciful unto me, O God, for men will tread me down: they are daily fighting and troubling me.

Psalm 57:4

I lie with my soul among the cruel lions; even among the children of men, whose teeth are spears and arrows, and their tongue a sharp sword.

Psalm 101:5

Who so privily slandereth his neighbour, him will I destroy. Whoso hath also a proud look and high stomach, I will not suffer him.

Jeremiah 6:25

No man go forth into the field, no man come upon the high street: for the sword and fear of the enemy shall be on every side!"

Jeremiah 11:19

But I, as a meek lamb, was carried away to be slain: not knowing, that they had devised such a counsel against me saying, "We will destroy his meat with wood, and drive him out of the land of the living: that his name shall never be thought upon."

Jeremiah 20:3-4

The next day following, Pashhur brought Jeremiah out of the stocks again. Then said Jeremiah unto him, "The LORD shall call thee no more Pashhur, that is, excellent and increasing; but Magormissabib, that is, fearful and afraid everywhere.

Matthew 26:3-4

Then assembled together the chief priests and the scribes and the elders of the people into the palace of the high priest, called Caiaphas:

Matthew 26:59

The chief priests, and the elders, and all the council, sought false witness against Jesus, for to put him to death,

Luke 23:1-2

And the whole multitude of them arose, and led him unto Pilate.

Luke 23:5

And they were the more fierce, saying, "He moveth the people, teaching throughout Jewry, and began at Galilee, even to this place."