Parallel Verses
The Emphasized Bible
Yea they who are seeking my life, have laid snares, and they who are asking my harm, have threatened engulfing ruin, And, deceitful things - all day long, do they mutter.
New American Standard Bible
And those who
And they
King James Version
They also that seek after my life lay snares for me: and they that seek my hurt speak mischievous things, and imagine deceits all the day long.
Holman Bible
and those who want to harm me threaten to destroy me;
they plot treachery all day long.
International Standard Version
Those who seek my life lay snares for me; those who seek to do me harm brag all day long about their wicked planning.
A Conservative Version
Those also who seek after my life lay snares [for me]. And those who seek my hurt speak mischievous things, and meditate deceits all the day long.
American Standard Version
They also that seek after my life lay snares for me ; And they that seek my hurt speak mischievous things, And meditate deceits all the day long.
Amplified
Those who seek my life lay snares for me,
And those who seek to injure me threaten mischievous things and destruction;
They devise treachery all the day long.
Darby Translation
And they that seek after my life lay snares for me; and they that seek my hurt speak mischievous things, and meditate deceits all the day long.
Julia Smith Translation
My friends and my neighbors will stand from before my stroke, and my kindred stood from far off.
King James 2000
They also that seek after my life lay snares for me: and they that seek my hurt speak mischievous things, and plan deceit all the day long.
Lexham Expanded Bible
Those who seek my life lay snares as well, and those intent on my harm speak threats. They also plot deceit all day.
Modern King James verseion
And those who seek my life lay snares for me; and those who seek my hurt speak sly things, and utter deceits all the day long.
Modern Spelling Tyndale-Coverdale
They also that sought after my life laid snares for me; and they that went about to do me evil talked of wickedness, and imagined deceit all the day long.
NET Bible
Those who seek my life try to entrap me; those who want to harm me speak destructive words; all day long they say deceitful things.
New Heart English Bible
They also who seek after my life lay snares. Those who seek my hurt speak mischievous things, and meditate deceits all day long.
Webster
They also that seek after my life lay snares for me: and they that seek my hurt speak mischievous things, and imagine deceits all the day long.
World English Bible
They also who seek after my life lay snares. Those who seek my hurt speak mischievous things, and meditate deceits all day long.
Youngs Literal Translation
And those seeking my soul lay a snare, And those seeking my evil Have spoken mischievous things, And they do deceits meditate all the day.
Themes
Character » Of the wicked » Conspiring against saints
Character of the wicked » Conspiring against God's people
Topics
Word Count of 19 Translations in Psalm 38:12
Verse Info
Context Readings
Prayer Of A Suffering Sinner
11 My lovers, and my friends, from before my stroke, stand aloof, - and, my near ones, far away, do stand: 12 Yea they who are seeking my life, have laid snares, and they who are asking my harm, have threatened engulfing ruin, And, deceitful things - all day long, do they mutter. 13 But, I, as one deaf, will not hear, - and as one dumb, who will not open his mouth:
Cross References
Psalm 35:20
For, no salvation, will they utter, - But, against the quiet of the land, deceitful things, do they devise;
Psalm 140:5
The proud have hidden a snare for me, and, cords, have they spread as a net beside the track, Snares, have they set for me. Selah.
2 Samuel 16:7-8
And, thus, said Shimei, when he cursed, - Out! Out! thou man of bloodshed, and man of the Abandoned One!
2 Samuel 17:1-3
Then said Ahithophel unto Absolom: I pray thee, let me choose for myself, twelve thousand men, and arise, and pursue David to-night;
Psalm 10:9
He lieth in wait in a hiding-place, like a lion in his covert, He lieth in wait to catch the humbled, He catcheth the humbled, by drawing him into his net:
Psalm 35:4
Let them be ashamed and confounded, who are seeking my life, - Let them turn back and be put to the blush, who are devising my hurt:
Psalm 54:3
For, aliens, have risen up against me, And, men of violence, have sought my life, They have not set God before them. Selah.
Psalm 62:3-4
How long will ye shout at a man? Ye shall be crushed all of you, - Like a wall that bulgeth, - a fence pushed in!
Psalm 64:2-5
Wilt thou hide me, From the conclave of evil-doers, From the crowd of workers of iniquity.
Psalm 119:110
The lawless have set a snare for me, Yet, from thy precepts, have I not strayed.
Psalm 141:9
Keep me out of the clutches of the trap they have set for me, and the snares of the workers of iniquity.
Luke 20:19-22
And the Scribes and the High-priests sought to thrust on him their hands, in that very hour; and feared the people; for they perceived that, against them, spake he this parable.