Parallel Verses

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,

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.

References

Fausets

Context Readings

A Plea For Protection

12 I have been forgotten as dead out of mind, I have been as a perishing vessel. 13 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, 14 And I on Thee -- I have trusted, O Jehovah, I have said, 'Thou art my God.'

Cross References

Jeremiah 20:10

For I have heard the evil report of many, Fear is round about: 'Declare, and we declare it,' All mine allies are watching for my halting, 'Perhaps he is enticed, and we prevail over him, And we take our vengeance out of him.'

Matthew 27:1

And morning having come, all the chief priests and the elders of the people took counsel against Jesus, so as to put him to death;

Lamentations 2:22

Thou dost call as at a day of appointment, My fears from round about, And there hath not been in the day of the anger of Jehovah, An escaped and remaining one, They whom I stretched out and nourished, My enemy hath consumed!

2 Samuel 17:1-4

And Ahithophel said unto Absalom, 'Let me choose, I pray thee, twelve thousand men, and I arise and pursue after David to-night,

1 Samuel 19:10-17

and Saul seeketh to smite with the javelin through David, and through the wall, and he freeth himself from the presence of Saul, and he smiteth the javelin through the wall; and David hath fled and escapeth during that night.

1 Samuel 20:33

And Saul casteth the javelin at him to smite him, and Jonathan knoweth that it hath been determined by his father to put David to death.

1 Samuel 22:8-10

for ye have conspired all of you against me, and there is none uncovering mine ear about my son's covenanting with the son of Jesse, and there is none of you grieving for me, and uncovering mine ear, that my son hath raised up my servant against me, to lie in wait as at this day.'

1 Samuel 23:19-20

And the Ziphites go up unto Saul to Gibeah, saying, 'Is not David hiding himself with us in fortresses, in the forest, in the height of Hachilah, which is on the south of the desolate place?

1 Samuel 24:9

And David saith to Saul, 'Why dost thou hear the words of man, saying, Lo, David is seeking thine evil?

Psalm 55:10

By day and by night they go round it, on its walls. Both iniquity and perverseness are in its midst,

Psalm 56:1-3

To the Overseer. -- 'On the Dumb Dove far off.' -- A secret treasure of David, in the Philistines' taking hold of him in Gath. Favour me, O God, for man swallowed me up, All the day fighting he oppresseth me,

Psalm 57:4

My soul is in the midst of lions, I lie down among flames -- sons of men, Their teeth are a spear and arrows, And their tongue a sharp sword.

Psalm 101:5

Whoso slandereth in secret his neighbour, Him I cut off, The high of eyes and proud of heart, him I endure not.

Jeremiah 6:25

Go not forth to the field, And in the way walk not, For a sword hath the enemy, fear is round about.

Jeremiah 11:19

And I am as a trained lamb brought to slaughter, And I have not known That against me they have devised devices: We destroy the tree with its food, and cut him off From the land of the living, And his name is not remembered again.

Jeremiah 20:3-4

and it cometh to pass on the morrow, that Pashhur bringeth out Jeremiah from the stocks, and Jeremiah saith unto him, 'Not Pashhur hath Jehovah called thy name, but -- Magor-Missabib.

Matthew 26:3-4

Then were gathered together the chief priests, and the scribes, and the elders of the people, to the court of the chief priest who was called Caiaphas;

Matthew 26:59

And the chief priests, and the elders, and all the council, were seeking false witness against Jesus, that they might put him to death,

Luke 23:1-2

And having risen, the whole multitude of them did lead him to Pilate,

Luke 23:5

and they were the more urgent, saying -- 'He doth stir up the people, teaching throughout the whole of Judea -- having begun from Galilee -- unto this place.'

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