All who hate me whisper together against me. They imagine the worst for me.
Parallel translations
- KJV All that hate me whisper together against me: against me do they devise my hurt.
- BSB All who hate me whisper against me; they imagine the worst for me:
- NKJV All who hate me whisper together against me; Against me they devise my hurt.
- NASB All who hate me whisper together against me; They plot my harm against me, saying,
- NLT All who hate me whisper about me, imagining the worst.
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Cross-references · 8
- Prov 16:28A perverse man stirs up strife. A whisperer separates close friends.
- Ps 56:5–6All day long they twist my words. All their thoughts are against me for evil.
- Matt 22:15Then the Pharisees went and took counsel how they might entrap him in his talk.
- Matt 26:3–4Then 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.
- Ps 31:13For I have heard the slander of many, terror on every side, while they conspire together against me, they plot to take away my life.
- 2 Cor 12:20For I am afraid that by any means, when I come, I might find you not the way I want to, and that I might be found by you as you don’t desire; that by any means there would be strife, jealousy, outbursts of anger, factions, slander, whisperings, proud thoughts, riots;
- Rom 1:29being filled with all unrighteousness, sexual immorality, wickedness, covetousness, malice; full of envy, murder, strife, deceit, evil habits, secret slanderers,
- Prov 26:20For lack of wood a fire goes out. Without gossip, a quarrel dies down.
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