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
Every day my life is filled with sorrow; 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 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.