Parallel Verses

New American Standard Bible

They attack, they lurk,
They watch my steps,
As they have waited to take my life.

King James Version

They gather themselves together, they hide themselves, they mark my steps, when they wait for my soul.

Holman Bible

They stir up strife, they lurk;
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.

Verse Info

Context Readings

A Call For God's Protection

5 Every day my life is filled with sorrow; all their thoughts are against me for evil. 6 They attack, they lurk,
They watch my steps,
As they have waited to take my life.
7 Shall they escape by iniquity? in thine anger cast down the peoples, O God.


Cross References

Psalm 59:3

For, behold, they lie in wait for my soul; the strong are gathered against me; I am not in rebellion, nor in sin, O LORD.

Psalm 71:10

For my enemies speak against me, and those that lay in wait for my soul take counsel together,

Psalm 140:2

Who devise evil in their heart; they are continually gathered together for war.

Job 14:16

For now thou dost number my steps; thou dost not open up my sin.

Job 31:4

Does he not see my ways and count all my steps?

Psalm 2:1-3

Why do the Gentiles rage, and the peoples imagine a vain thing?

Psalm 10:8-10

He sits in the lurking places of the villages: in the secret places he murders the innocent: his eyes are secretly set against the poor.

Psalm 37:32

Tzaddi The wicked watches the righteous and seeks to slay him.

Psalm 57:6

They have prepared a net for my steps; my soul is bowed down; they have dug a pit before me, into the midst of which they are fallen themselves. Selah.

Psalm 64:2-6

Hide me from the secret counsel of the wicked, from the insurrection of the workers of iniquity:

Psalm 89:51

because thine enemies have dishonoured, O LORD; they have dishonoured the footsteps of thine anointed.

Isaiah 54:15

If anyone should conspire against thee, it shall be without me, whosoever would conspire against thee shall fall before thee.

Jeremiah 20:10

For I heard the murmuring of many, fear on every side, Report, and we will report it. All my friends watched to see if I would stumble. Peradventure he will deceive himself, they said, and we shall prevail against him, and we shall take our revenge on him.

Daniel 6:4

Then the presidents and governors looked for occasions against Daniel on behalf of the kingdom, but they could find no occasion or fault because he was faithful, and no vice nor fault was found in him.

Matthew 26:3-4

Then the princes of the priests and the scribes and the elders of the people assembled together in the palace of the high priest, who was called Caiaphas,

Matthew 26:57

And those that had laid hold on Jesus led him away to Caiaphas the high priest, where the scribes and the elders were assembled.

Matthew 27:1

When the morning was come, all the princes of the priests and the elders of the people took counsel against Jesus to put him to death,

Luke 20:20

And they watched him and sent forth spies who feigned themselves just men that they might take hold of him as he was speaking, that so they might deliver him unto the power and authority of the governor.

Acts 4:5-6

And it came to pass on the next day that their princes and elders and scribes

Acts 23:12-14

And when it was day, certain of the Jews banded together and they vowed under a curse, saying that they would neither eat nor drink until they had killed Paul.

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