Psalms 56:6

The enemies conspire, lurk, and watch David's steps, eager to kill him. It exposes their patient, murderous intent.

Cross-references · 20

• Ps 71:10For my enemies talk about me. Those who watch for my soul conspire together,
• Ps 59:3For, behold, they lie in wait for my soul. The mighty gather themselves together against me, not for my disobedience, nor for my sin, Yahweh.
• Ps 140:2those who devise mischief in their hearts. They continually gather themselves together for war.
• Acts 23:12–14When it was day, some of the Jews banded together, and bound themselves under a curse, saying that they would neither eat nor drink until they had killed Paul.
• Luke 20:20They watched him, and sent out spies, who pretended to be righteous, that they might trap him in something he said, so as to deliver him up to the power and authority of the governor.
• Acts 4:5–6In the morning, their rulers, elders, and scribes were gathered together in Jerusalem.
• Ps 2:1–3Why do the nations rage, and the peoples plot a vain thing?
• Ps 64:2–6Hide me from the conspiracy of the wicked, from the noisy crowd of the ones doing evil;
• Ps 57:6They have prepared a net for my steps. My soul is bowed down. They dig a pit before me. They fall into the middle of it themselves. Selah.
• Ps 10:8–10He lies in wait near the villages. From ambushes, he murders the innocent. His eyes are secretly set against the helpless.
• Ps 89:51With which your enemies have mocked, Yahweh, with which they have mocked the footsteps of your anointed one.
• Ps 37:32The wicked watches the righteous, and seeks to kill him.
• Matt 26:57Those who had taken Jesus led him away to Caiaphas the high priest, where the scribes and the elders were gathered together.
• Matt 27:1Now when morning had come, all the chief priests and the elders of the people took counsel against Jesus to put him to death:
• Jer 20:10For I have heard the defaming of many, “Terror on every side! Denounce, and we will denounce him!” say all my familiar friends, those who watch for my fall. “Perhaps he will be persuaded, and we shall prevail against him, and we shall take our revenge on him.”
• 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.
• Isa 54:15Behold, they may gather together, but not by me. Whoever gathers together against you will fall because of you.
• Job 31:4Doesn’t he see my ways, and count all my steps?
• Job 14:16But now you count my steps. Don’t you watch over my sin?
• Dan 6:4Then the presidents and the satraps sought to find occasion against Daniel as touching the kingdom; but they could find no occasion nor fault, because he was faithful, neither was there any error or fault found in him.

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