the slander and murmuring of my assailants against me all day long.
Parallel translations
- WEB The lips of those that rose up against me, and their device against me all day long.
- KJV The lips of those that rose up against me, and their device against me all the day.
- NKJV The lips of my enemies And their whispering against me all the day.
- NASB The lips of my assailants and their talk Are against me all day long.
- NLT My enemies whisper and mutter as they plot against me all day long.
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Quick answer
The whispered words and plots of his adversaries continue against him all day long.
Overview
The poet describes the constant murmuring and scheming of those who rose against him. Their hostility is unrelenting, pursuing him without pause. Yet by laying it before God who hears all, he places his continual trials into the hands of the One who judges rightly (Ps. 38:12).
Cross-references & the web
Cross-references · 5
- Ezek 36:3therefore prophesy and declare that this is what the Lord GOD says: Because they have made you desolate and have trampled you on every side, so that you became a possession of the rest of the nations and were taken up in slander by the lips of their talkers,
- Ps 59:12By the sins of their mouths and the words of their lips, let them be trapped in their pride, in the curses and lies they utter.
- Ps 59:7See what they spew from their mouths—sharp words from their lips: “For who can hear us?”
- Ps 140:3They sharpen their tongues like snakes; the venom of vipers is on their lips. Selah
- Jer 18:18Then some said, “Come, let us make plans against Jeremiah, for the law will never be lost to the priest, nor counsel to the wise, nor an oracle to the prophet. Come, let us denounce him and pay no heed to any of his words.”
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The weeping over a ruined city and the steadfast mercies that are new every morning point to the man of sorrows who wept over Jerusalem and whose mercy rises new from the grave.
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