For strangers have risen up against me. Violent men have sought after my soul. They haven’t set God before them. Selah.
Parallel translations
- KJV For strangers are risen up against me, and oppressors seek after my soul: they have not set God before them. Selah.
- BSB For strangers rise up against me, and ruthless men seek my life—men with no regard for God. Selah
- NKJV For strangers have risen up against me, And oppressors have sought after my life; They have not set God before them. Selah
- NASB For strangers have risen against me And violent men have sought my life; They have not set God before them. Selah
- NLT For strangers are attacking me; violent people are trying to kill me. They care nothing for God. Interlude
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Cross-references · 11
- 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 36:1For the Chief Musician. By David, the servant of Yahweh. An inner sanctuary is within my heart about the disobedience of the wicked: “There is no fear of God before his eyes.”
- John 16:3They will do these things because they have not known the Father, nor me.
- Ps 53:4Have the workers of iniquity no knowledge, who eat up my people as they eat bread, and don’t call on God?
- Ps 40:14Let them be disappointed and confounded together who seek after my soul to destroy it. Let them be turned backward and brought to dishonor who delight in my hurt.
- Ps 22:16For dogs have surrounded me. A company of evildoers have enclosed me. They have pierced my hands and feet.
- Ps 16:8I have set Yahweh always before me. Because he is at my right hand, I shall not be moved.
- Job 19:13–15“He has put my brothers far from me. My acquaintances are wholly estranged from me.
- Ps 59:3–5For, behold, they lie in wait for my soul. The mighty gather themselves together against me, not for my disobedience, nor for my sin, Yahweh.
- Matt 27:20–23Now the chief priests and the elders persuaded the multitudes to ask for Barabbas, and destroy Jesus.
- Ps 69:8I have become a stranger to my brothers, an alien to my mother’s children.
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