Parallel Verses
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.
A Conservative Version
They gather themselves together. They hide themselves. They mark my steps, even as they have waited for my soul.
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 day long they injure my cause; all their thoughts are against me for evil.
6
They
As they have
Names
Cross References
Psalm 59:3
For behold, they lie in wait for my life; fierce men stir up strife against me. For no transgression or sin of mine, O LORD,
Psalm 71:10
For my enemies speak concerning me; those who watch for my life consult together
Psalm 140:2
who plan evil things in their heart and stir up wars continually.
Job 14:16
For then you would number my steps; you would not keep watch over my sin;
Job 31:4
Does not he see my ways and number all my steps?
Psalm 2:1-3
Why do the nations rage and the peoples plot in vain?
Psalm 10:8-10
He sits in ambush in the villages; in hiding places he murders the innocent. His eyes stealthily watch for the helpless;
Psalm 37:32
The wicked watches for the righteous and seeks to put him to death.
Psalm 57:6
They set a net for my steps; my soul was bowed down. They dug a pit in my way, but they have fallen into it themselves. Selah
Psalm 64:2-6
Hide me from the secret plots of the wicked, from the throng of evildoers,
Psalm 89:51
with which your enemies mock, O LORD, with which they mock the footsteps of your anointed.
Isaiah 54:15
If anyone stirs up strife, it is not from me; whoever stirs up strife with you shall fall because of you.
Jeremiah 20:10
For I hear many whispering. Terror is on every side! "Denounce him! Let us denounce him!" say all my close friends, watching for my fall. "Perhaps he will be deceived; then we can overcome him and take our revenge on him."
Daniel 6:4
Then the presidents and the satraps sought to find a ground for complaint against Daniel with regard to the kingdom, but they could find no ground for complaint or any fault, because he was faithful, and no error or fault was found in him.
Matthew 26:3-4
Then the chief priests and the elders of the people gathered in the palace of the high priest, whose name was Caiaphas,
Matthew 26:57
Then those who had seized Jesus led him to Caiaphas the high priest, where the scribes and the elders had gathered.
Matthew 27:1
When morning came, all the chief priests and the elders of the people took counsel against Jesus to put him to death.
Luke 20:20
So they watched him and sent spies, who pretended to be sincere, that they might catch him in something he said, so as to deliver him up to the authority and jurisdiction of the governor.
Acts 4:5-6
On the next day their rulers and elders and scribes gathered together in Jerusalem,
Acts 23:12-14
When it was day, the Jews made a plot and bound themselves by an oath neither to eat nor drink till they had killed Paul.