The wicked have waited for me, to destroy me. I will consider your statutes.
Parallel translations
- KJV The wicked have waited for me to destroy me: but I will consider thy testimonies.
- BSB The wicked wait to destroy me, but I will ponder Your testimonies.
- ESV The wicked lie in wait to destroy me, but I consider your testimonies.
- NKJV The wicked wait for me to destroy me, But I will consider Your testimonies.
- NASB The wicked wait for me to destroy me; I will diligently consider Your testimonies.
- NLT Though the wicked hide along the way to kill me, I will quietly keep my mind on your laws.
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- Ps 119:167My soul has observed your testimonies. I love them exceedingly.
- Ps 119:31I cling to your statutes, Yahweh. Don’t let me be disappointed.
- Ps 119:85–87The proud have dug pits for me, contrary to your law.
- Ps 119:69The proud have smeared a lie upon me. With my whole heart, I will keep your precepts.
- Ps 10:8–10He lies in wait near the villages. From ambushes, he murders the innocent. His eyes are secretly set against the helpless.
- Acts 25:3asking a favor against him, that he would summon him to Jerusalem; plotting to kill him on the way.
- Acts 23:21Therefore don’t yield to them, for more than forty men lie in wait for him, who have bound themselves under a curse neither to eat nor to drink until they have killed him. Now they are ready, looking for the promise from you.”
- Ps 119:125I am your servant. Give me understanding, that I may know your testimonies.
- Ps 119:129Your testimonies are wonderful, therefore my soul keeps them.
- Matt 26:3–5Then the chief priests, the scribes, and the elders of the people were gathered together in the court of the high priest, who was called Caiaphas.
- Acts 12:11When Peter had come to himself, he said, “Now I truly know that the Lord has sent out his angel and delivered me out of the hand of Herod, and from everything the Jewish people were expecting.”
- Ps 119:24Indeed your statutes are my delight, and my counselors. DALED
- Ps 38:12They also who seek after my life lay snares. Those who seek my hurt speak mischievous things, and meditate deceits all day long.
- Ps 27:2When evildoers came at me to eat up my flesh, even my adversaries and my foes, they stumbled and fell.
- Ps 37:32The wicked watches the righteous, and seeks to kill him.
- Ps 119:61The ropes of the wicked bind me, but I won’t forget your law.
- 1 Sam 23:20–23Now therefore, O king, come down. According to all the desire of your soul to come down; and our part will be to deliver him up into the king’s hand.”
- Ps 119:111I have taken your testimonies as a heritage forever, for they are the joy of my heart.
- 2 Sam 17:1–4Moreover Ahithophel said to Absalom, “Let me now choose twelve thousand men, and I will arise and pursue after David tonight.
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