See how many enemies I have and how viciously they hate me!
Parallel translations
- WEB Consider my enemies, for they are many. They hate me with cruel hatred.
- KJV Consider mine enemies; for they are many; and they hate me with cruel hatred.
- BSB Consider my enemies, for they are many, and they hate me with vicious hatred.
- ESV Consider how many are my foes, and with what violent hatred they hate me.
- NKJV Consider my enemies, for they are many; And they hate me with cruel hatred.
- NASB Look at my enemies, for they are many, And they hate me with violent hatred.
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David asks God to consider his many enemies who hate him with violent hatred. He brings the reality of fierce opposition before God.
Overview
David draws God's attention to the multitude of his foes and the cruelty of their hatred. He does not seek personal revenge but entrusts his cause to God. This pattern of laying enmity before the Lord rather than retaliating anticipates Christ, who when reviled did not revile in return but committed himself to the One who judges justly.
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- Ps 86:14God, the proud have risen up against me. A company of violent men have sought after my soul, and they don’t hold regard for you before them.
- Ps 143:3For the enemy pursues my soul. He has struck my life down to the ground. He has made me live in dark places, as those who have been long dead.
- Ps 38:19But my enemies are vigorous and many. Those who hate me without reason are numerous.
- Ps 57:4My soul is among lions. I lie among those who are set on fire, even the sons of men, whose teeth are spears and arrows, and their tongue a sharp sword.
- Ps 140:11An evil speaker won’t be established in the earth. Evil will hunt the violent man to overthrow him.
- Ps 52:2Your tongue plots destruction, like a sharp razor, working deceitfully.
- Ps 140:1For the Chief Musician. A Psalm by David. Deliver me, Yahweh, from the evil man. Preserve me from the violent man;
- Luke 22:2The chief priests and the scribes sought how they might put him to death, for they feared the people.
- Ps 3:1–2A Psalm by David, when he fled from Absalom his son. Yahweh, how my adversaries have increased! Many are those who rise up against me.
- Ps 27:12Don’t deliver me over to the desire of my adversaries, for false witnesses have risen up against me, such as breathe out cruelty.
- Ps 56:2My enemies want to swallow me up all day long, for they are many who fight proudly against me.
- Ps 140:4Yahweh, keep me from the hands of the wicked. Preserve me from the violent men who have determined to trip my feet.
- Luke 23:5But they insisted, saying, “He stirs up the people, teaching throughout all Judea, beginning from Galilee even to this place.”
- Ps 18:48He rescues me from my enemies. Yes, you lift me up above those who rise up against me. You deliver me from the violent man.
- Ps 27:2When evildoers came at me to eat up my flesh, even my adversaries and my foes, they stumbled and fell.
- 2 Sam 17:2–4I will come on him while he is weary and exhausted, and will make him afraid. All the people who are with him will flee. I will strike the king only,
- Ps 11:5Yahweh examines the righteous, but the wicked and him who loves violence his soul hates.
- 2 Sam 16:11David said to Abishai, and to all his servants, “Behold, my son, who came out of my bowels, seeks my life. How much more this Benjamite, now? Leave him alone, and let him curse; for Yahweh has invited him.
- Luke 23:21–23but they shouted, saying, “Crucify! Crucify him!”
- Ps 138:7Though I walk in the middle of trouble, you will revive me. You will stretch out your hand against the wrath of my enemies. Your right hand will save me.
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