Psalms 37:12

The wicked plots against the righteous and gnashes his teeth in hostility. The godly often face active malice.

Cross-references · 12

• Ps 35:16Like godless jesters at a feast, they gnashed their teeth at me.
• Mic 2:1Woe to those who devise iniquity and plot evil on their beds! At morning’s light they accomplish it because the power is in their hands.
• Dan 8:12And in the rebellion, the host and the daily sacrifice were given over to the horn, and it flung truth to the ground and prospered in whatever it did.
• Ps 31:13For I hear the slander of many; there is terror on every side. They conspire against me and plot to take my life.
• Matt 26:16So from then on Judas looked for an opportunity to betray Jesus.
• 1 Sam 18:21“I will give her to David,” Saul thought, “so that she may be a snare to him, and the hand of the Philistines may be against him.” So Saul said to David, “For a second time now you can be my son-in-law.”
• Matt 26:4and they conspired to arrest Jesus covertly and kill Him.
• Esth 3:6And when he learned the identity of Mordecai’s people, he scorned the notion of laying hands on Mordecai alone. Instead, he sought to destroy all of Mordecai’s people, the Jews, throughout the kingdom of Xerxes.
• Ps 37:32Though the wicked lie in wait for the righteous, and seek to slay them,
• 1 Sam 23:7–9When Saul was told that David had gone to Keilah, he said, “God has delivered him into my hand, for he has trapped himself by entering a town with gates and bars.”
• Dan 8:24His power will be great, but it will not be his own. He will cause terrible destruction and succeed in whatever he does. He will destroy the mighty men along with the holy people.
• 2 Sam 15:10–12Then Absalom sent spies throughout the tribes of Israel with this message: “When you hear the sound of the horn, you are to say, ‘Absalom reigns in Hebron!’”

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