Parallel Verses
A Conservative Version
They gather themselves together. They hide themselves. They mark my steps, even as they have waited for my soul.
New American Standard Bible
They
As they have
King James Version
They gather themselves together, they hide themselves, they mark my steps, when they wait for my soul.
Holman Bible
they watch my steps
while they wait to take my life.
International Standard Version
They gather together and hide in ambush. They watch my every step as they lie in wait for my life.
American Standard Version
They gather themselves together, they hide themselves, They mark my steps, Even as they have waited for my soul.
Amplified
They attack, they hide and lurk,
They watch my steps,
As they have [expectantly] waited to take my life.
Bible in Basic English
They come together, they are waiting in secret places, they take note of my steps, they are waiting for my soul.
Darby Translation
They gather themselves together, they hide themselves; they mark my steps, because they wait for my soul.
Julia Smith Translation
They will sojourn, they will hide, they will watch my heels as they waited for my soul
King James 2000
They gather themselves together, they hide themselves, they mark my steps, when they wait for my soul.
Lexham Expanded Bible
They attack, they hide, they watch my {steps}, as they [lie in] wait for my life.
Modern King James verseion
They stir up strife; they hide themselves; they watch my steps as they wait for my soul.
Modern Spelling Tyndale-Coverdale
They hold all together, and keep themselves close, and mark my steps, when they lay wait for my soul.
NET Bible
They stalk and lurk; they watch my every step, as they prepare to take my life.
New Heart English Bible
They conspire and lurk, watching my steps, they are eager to take my life.
The Emphasized Bible
They stir up strife - they lie hid, They, mark my steps, - Seeing they have waited for my life.
Webster
They assemble themselves, they hide themselves, they mark my steps, when they wait for my soul.
World English Bible
They conspire and lurk, watching my steps, they are eager to take my life.
Youngs Literal Translation
They assemble, they hide, they watch my heels, When they have expected my soul.
Word Count of 20 Translations in Psalm 56:6
Verse Info
Context Readings
A Call For God's Protection
5 All the day long they wrest my words. All their thoughts are against me for evil. 6 They gather themselves together. They hide themselves. They mark my steps, even as they have waited for my soul. 7 Shall they escape by iniquity? In anger cast down the peoples, O God.
Names
Cross References
Psalm 59:3
For, lo, they lay in wait for my soul. The mighty gather themselves together against me, not for my transgression, nor for my sin, O LORD.
Psalm 71:10
For my enemies speak concerning me, and those who watch for my soul take counsel together,
Psalm 140:2
[and men] who devise mischievous things in their heart. They gather themselves continually together for war.
Job 14:16
But now thou number my steps. Do thou not watch over my sin?
Job 31:4
Does he not see my ways, and number all my steps?
Psalm 2:1-3
Why do the nations rage, and the peoples meditate vain {things (LXX/NT)}?
Psalm 10:8-10
He sits in the lurking-places of the villages. In the covert places he murders the innocent man. His eyes are secretly set against the poor man.
Psalm 37:32
A wicked man watches a righteous man, and seeks to kill him.
Psalm 57:6
They have prepared a net for my steps. My soul is bowed down. They have dug a pit before me. They are fallen into the midst of it themselves. Selah.
Psalm 64:2-6
Hide me from the secret counsel of evil-doers, from the tumult of the workers of iniquity,
Psalm 89:51
with which thine enemies have reproached, O LORD, with which they have reproached the footsteps of thine anointed.
Isaiah 54:15
Behold, they may gather together, but not by me. Whoever shall gather together against thee shall fall because of thee.
Jeremiah 20:10
For I have heard the defaming of many, terror on every side. Denounce, and we will denounce him, [say] all my familiar friends, those who watch for my fall. Perhaps he will be persuaded, and we shall prevail against him, and we sha
Daniel 6:4
Then the presidents and the satraps sought to find occasion against Daniel concerning the kingdom, but they could find no occasion nor fault, inasmuch as he was faithful, nor was there any error or fault found in him.
Matthew 26:3-4
Then the chief priests, and the scholars, and the elders of the people, assembled together to the courtyard of the high priest, who was called Caiaphas,
Matthew 26:57
And those who seized Jesus led him away to Caiaphas the high priest where the scholars and the elders were assembled together.
Matthew 27:1
But having become morning, all the chief priests and the elders of the people held consultation against Jesus in order to condemn him to death.
Luke 20:20
And having watched him, they sent forth insidious men pretending themselves to be righteous, so that they might take hold of his word, in order to deliver him up to the rule and to the authority of the governor.
Acts 4:5-6
And it came to pass on the morrow, to be assembled in Jerusalem, their rulers, and elders, and scholars,
Acts 23:12-14
And when it became day, some of the Jews, having made a conspiracy, put themselves under a curse, saying neither to eat nor to drink until they would kill Paul.