Parallel Verses
Modern King James verseion
They stir up strife; they hide themselves; they watch my steps as they wait 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.
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 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 pervert my words; all their thoughts are against me for evil. 6 They stir up strife; they hide themselves; they watch my steps as they wait 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 lie in wait for my soul; the mighty are gathered against me; not for my transgression, nor for my sin, O Jehovah.
Psalm 71:10
For my enemies speak against me; and those who watch for my soul plot together,
Psalm 140:2
who devised evil things in the heart; they are always gathered for war.
Job 14:16
For now You number my steps; do You not watch over my sin?
Job 31:4
Does He not see my ways, and count all my steps?
Psalm 2:1-3
Why do the nations rage, and the peoples meditate on a vain thing?
Psalm 10:8-10
He sits in the hiding-places of the villages; in the secret places he murders the innocent. His eyes are secretly set against the poor.
Psalm 37:32
The wicked watches the righteous, 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 have fallen into it. Selah.
Psalm 64:2-6
Hide me from the council of those who injure, from the rebelling of the workers of iniquity,
Psalm 89:51
with which Your enemies have cursed, O Jehovah; with which they have cursed the footsteps of Your anointed.
Isaiah 54:15
Behold, they shall surely gather together, not by Me; whoever shall gather against you, he shall fall by you.
Jeremiah 20:10
For I heard the slanders of many, Terror is all around! Expose! Yea, let us expose him! Every man of my peace is watching for my fall, saying, Perhaps he will be lured away, and we shall prevail over him, and we shall take our revenge on him.
Daniel 6:4
Then the presidents and rulers sought to find occasion against Daniel concerning the kingdom. But they could find no occasion or fault, because he was faithful. Neither was there any error or fault found in him.
Matthew 26:3-4
Then the chief priests, and the scribes, and the elders of the people, assembled together to the palace of the high priest, who was called Caiaphas.
Matthew 26:57
And they who had seized Jesus led Him away to Caiaphas the high priest, where the scribes and the elders had assembled.
Matthew 27:1
And it becoming early morning, all the chief priests and elders of the people took counsel against Jesus to put Him to death.
Luke 20:20
And they watched and sent forth spies, pretending themselves to be righteous men, so that they might seize upon a word of His, that they might deliver Him in this way to the power and authority of the governor.
Acts 4:5-6
And it happened on the next day that their rulers and elders and scribes, gathered to Jerusalem,
Acts 23:12-14
And when it became day, some of the Jews banded together and bound themselves under a curse, saying that they would neither eat nor drink until they had killed Paul.