Psalms 38:12

While friends retreat, enemies actively plot David's ruin with traps and lies. The afflicted believer often faces hostility on top of isolation.

Cross-references · 12

• Ps 35:20For they don’t speak peace, but they devise deceitful words against those who are quiet in the land.
• 2 Sam 17:1–3Moreover Ahithophel said to Absalom, “Let me now choose twelve thousand men, and I will arise and pursue after David tonight.
• Ps 140:5The proud have hidden a snare for me, they have spread the cords of a net by the path. They have set traps for me. Selah.
• Ps 119:110The wicked have laid a snare for me, yet I haven’t gone astray from your precepts.
• Ps 35:4Let those who seek after my soul be disappointed and brought to dishonor. Let those who plot my ruin be turned back and confounded.
• Ps 64:2–5Hide me from the conspiracy of the wicked, from the noisy crowd of the ones doing evil;
• Ps 54:3For strangers have risen up against me. Violent men have sought after my soul. They haven’t set God before them. Selah.
• Ps 141:9Keep me from the snare which they have laid for me, from the traps of the workers of iniquity.
• Luke 20:19–22The chief priests and the scribes sought to lay hands on him that very hour, but they feared the people — for they knew he had spoken this parable against them.
• 2 Sam 16:7–8Shimei said when he cursed, “Be gone, be gone, you man of blood, and base fellow!
• Ps 62:3–4How long will you assault a man, would all of you throw him down, Like a leaning wall, like a tottering fence?
• Ps 10:9He lurks in secret as a lion in his ambush. He lies in wait to catch the helpless. He catches the helpless, when he draws him in his net.

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