Psalm 56:6

A Call For God's Protection

⁵ Every day they make wrong use of my words; all their thoughts are against me for evil. ⁶ They come together, they are waiting in secret places, they take note of my steps, they are waiting for my soul. ⁷ By evil-doing they will not get free from punishment. In wrath, O God, let the peoples be made low.

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Psalm 59:3

For see, they are watching in secret for my soul; the strong have come together against me? but not because of my sin, or my evil-doing, O Lord.

Psalm 71:10

For my haters are waiting secretly for me; and those who are watching for my soul are banded together in their evil designs,

Psalm 140:2

For their hearts are full of evil designs; and they are ever making ready causes of war.

Job 14:16

For now my steps are numbered by you, and my sin is not overlooked.

Job 31:4

Does he not see my ways, and are not my steps all numbered?

Psalm 2:1-3

Why are the nations so violently moved, and why are the thoughts of the people so foolish?

Psalm 10:8-10

He is waiting in the dark places of the towns: in the secret places he puts to death those who have done no wrong: his eyes are secretly turned against the poor.

Psalm 37:32

The sinners are watching the upright man, desiring to put him to death.

Psalm 57:6

They have made ready a net for my steps; my soul is bent down; they have made a great hole before me, and have gone down into it themselves. (Selah.)

Psalm 64:2-6

Keep me safe from the secret purpose of wrongdoers; from the band of the workers of evil;

Psalm 89:51

The bitter words of your haters, O Lord, shaming the footsteps of your king.

Isaiah 54:15

See, they may be moved to war, but not by my authority: all those who come together to make an attack on you, will be broken against you.

Jeremiah 20:10

For numbers of them say evil secretly in my hearing (there is fear on every side): they say, Come, let us give witness against him; all my nearest friends, who are watching for my fall, say, It may be that he will be taken by deceit, and we will get the better of him and give him punishment.

Daniel 6:4

Then the chief rulers and the captains were looking for some cause for putting Daniel in the wrong in connection with the kingdom, but they were unable to put forward any wrongdoing or error against him; because he was true, and no error or wrong was to be seen in him.

Matthew 26:3-4

Then the chief priests and the rulers of the people came together in the house of the high priest, who was named Caiaphas.

Matthew 26:57

And those who had made Jesus prisoner took him away to the house of Caiaphas, the high priest, where the scribes and those in authority over the people had come together.

Matthew 27:1

Now when it was morning, all the chief priests and those in authority took thought together with the purpose of putting Jesus to death.

Luke 20:20

And they kept watch on him, and sent out secret representatives, who were acting the part of good men, in order that they might get something from his words, on account of which they might give him up to the government and into the power of the ruler.

Acts 4:5-6

And on the day after, the rulers and those in authority and the scribes came together in Jerusalem;

Acts 23:12-14

And when it was day, the Jews came together and put themselves under an oath that they would take no food or drink till they had put Paul to death.