They surround me with hateful words and fight against me for no reason.
Parallel translations
- WEB They have also surrounded me with words of hatred, and fought against me without a cause.
- KJV They compassed me about also with words of hatred; and fought against me without a cause.
- BSB They surround me with hateful words and attack me without cause.
- ESV They encircle me with words of hate, and attack me without cause.
- NKJV They have also surrounded me with words of hatred, And fought against me without a cause.
- NASB They have also surrounded me with words of hatred, And have fought against me without cause.
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They surround David with words of hatred and attack him without cause.
Overview
David is encircled by hateful speech and assaulted though he has given no reason for such enmity. The phrase 'without a cause' underscores the injustice of the attack. Jesus applied this very expression to himself, saying his enemies hated him without a cause, marking David's experience as a shadow of Christ's undeserved suffering.
Cross-references & the web
Cross-references · 13
- Ps 69:4Those who hate me without a cause are more than the hairs of my head. Those who want to cut me off, being my enemies wrongfully, are mighty. I have to restore what I didn’t take away.
- Ps 35:7For without cause they have hidden their net in a pit for me. Without cause they have dug a pit for my soul.
- Ps 35:20For they don’t speak peace, but they devise deceitful words against those who are quiet in the land.
- Ps 88:17They came around me like water all day long. They completely engulfed me.
- John 15:24–25If I hadn’t done among them the works which no one else did, they wouldn’t have had sin. But now have they seen and also hated both me and my Father.
- Ps 17:11They have now surrounded us in our steps. They set their eyes to cast us down to the earth.
- 1 Sam 26:18He said, “Why does my lord pursue his servant? For what have I done? What evil is in my hand?
- Ps 59:3–4For, behold, they lie in wait for my soul. The mighty gather themselves together against me, not for my disobedience, nor for my sin, Yahweh.
- Ps 22:12Many bulls have surrounded me. Strong bulls of Bashan have encircled me.
- 1 Sam 19:4–5Jonathan spoke good of David to Saul his father, and said to him, “Don’t let the king sin against his servant, against David; because he has not sinned against you, and because his works have been very good toward you;
- 2 Sam 16:7–8Shimei said when he cursed, “Be gone, be gone, you man of blood, and base fellow!
- 2 Sam 15:12Absalom sent for Ahithophel the Gilonite, David’s counselor, from his city, even from Giloh, while he was offering the sacrifices. The conspiracy was strong; for the people increased continually with Absalom.
- Hos 11:12Ephraim surrounds me with falsehood, and the house of Israel with deceit. Judah still strays from God, and is unfaithful to the Holy One.
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