Psalm 31:13 {30:14}
Good News Translation
I hear many enemies whispering; terror is all around me. They are making plans against me, plotting to kill me.

New Revised Standard Version
For I hear the whispering of many— terror all around!— as they scheme together against me, as they plot to take my life.

Contemporary English Version
I hear the crowds whisper, "Everyone is afraid!" They are plotting and scheming to murder me.

New American Bible
I hear the whispers of the crowd; terrors are all around me. They conspire together against me; they plot to take my life.

Douay-Rheims Bible
For I have heard the blame of many that dwell round about. While they assembled together against me, they consulted to take away my life.

Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

For I have heard the blame of many that dwell round about. While they assembled together against me, they consulted to take away my life.

I have

Psalm 55:10 Day and night shall iniquity surround it upon its walls: and in the midst thereof are labour,

Psalm 101:5 The man that in private detracted his neighbour, him did I persecute. With him that had a proud eye, and an unsatiable heart, I would not eat.

1 Samuel 22:8-10 That all of you have conspired against me, and there is no one to inform me, especially when even my son hath entered into league with the son of Isai? There is not one of you that pitieth my case, nor that giveth me any information: because my son hath raised up my servant against me, plotting against me to this day. . . .

1 Samuel 24:9 And said to Saul: Why dost thou hear the words of men that say: David seeketh thy hurt?

Jeremiah 20:10 For I heard the reproaches of many, and terror on every side: Persecute him, and let us persecute him: from all the men that were my familiars, and continued at my side: if by any means he may be deceived, and we may prevail against him, and be revenged on him.

Luke 23:1,2,5 And the whole multitude of them, rising up, led him to Pilate. . . .

fear

Psalm 56:1-3 Unto the end, for a people that is removed at a distance from the sanctuary: for David, for an inscription of a title (or pillar) when the Philistines held him in Geth. [2] Have mercy on me, O God, for man hath trodden me under foot; all the day long he hath afflicted me fighting against me. . . .

Psalm 57:4 And he hath delivered my soul from the midst of the young lions. I slept troubled. The sons of men, whose teeth are weapons and arrows, and their tongue a sharp sword.

Jeremiah 6:25 Go not out into the fields, nor walk in the highway: for the sword of the enemy, and fear is on every side.

Jeremiah 20:3,4 And when it was light the next day, Phassur brought Jeremiah out of the stocks. And Jeremiah said to him: The Lord hath not called thy name Phassur, but fear on every side. . . .

Lamentations 2:22 Thau. Thou hast called as to a festival, those that should terrify me round about, and there was none in the day of the wrath of the Lord that escaped and was left: those that I brought up, and nourished, my enemy hath consumed them.

while

1 Samuel 19:10-17 And Saul endeavoured to nail David to the wall with his spear. And David slipt away out of the presence of Saul: and the spear missed him, and was fastened in the wall, and David fled, and escaped that night. . . .

1 Samuel 20:33 And Saul caught up a spear to strike him. And Jonathan understood that it was determined by his father to kill David.

1 Samuel 23:19,20 And the Ziphites went up to Saul, in Gabaa, saying: Lo, doth not David lie hid with us in the strong holds of the wood, in mount Hachila, which is on the right hand of the desert. . . .

2 Samuel 17:1-4 And Achitophel said to Absalom: I will choose me twelve thousand men, and I will arise and pursue after David this night. . . .

Jeremiah 11:19 And I was as a meek lamb, that is carried to be a victim: and I knew not that they had devised counsels against me, saying: Let us put wood on his bread, and cut him off from the land of the living, and let his name be remembered no more.

Matthew 26:3,4,59 Then were gathered together the chief priests and ancients of the people, into the court of the high priest, who was called Caiphas: . . .

Matthew 27:1 And when morning was come, all the chief priests and ancients of the people took counsel against Jesus, that they might put him to death.

Context
Into Your Hands I Commit My Spirit
12I am forgotten as one dead from the heart. I am become as a vessel that is destroyed. 13For I have heard the blame of many that dwell round about. While they assembled together against me, they consulted to take away my life.14But I have put my trust in thee, O Lord: I said: Thou art my God.…
Cross References
Matthew 27:1
And when morning was come, all the chief priests and ancients of the people took counsel against Jesus, that they might put him to death.

Genesis 37:18
And when they saw him afar off, before he came nigh them, they thought to kill him:

Psalm 31:20
Thou shalt hide them in the secret of thy face, from the disturbance of men. Thou shalt protect them in thy tabernacle from the contradiction of tongues.

Psalm 37:12
The sinner shall watch the just man: and shall gnash upon him with his teeth.

Psalm 41:7
All my enemies whispered together against me: they devised evils to me.

Psalm 50:20
Sitting thou didst speak against thy brother, and didst lay a scandal against thy mother's son:

Psalm 62:4
But they have thought to cast away my price; I ran in thirst: they blessed with their mouth, but cursed with their heart.

Psalm 71:10
For my enemies have spoken against me; and they that watched my soul have consulted together,

Jeremiah 20:10
For I heard the reproaches of many, and terror on every side: Persecute him, and let us persecute him: from all the men that were my familiars, and continued at my side: if by any means he may be deceived, and we may prevail against him, and be revenged on him.

Lamentations 2:22
Thau. Thou hast called as to a festival, those that should terrify me round about, and there was none in the day of the wrath of the Lord that escaped and was left: those that I brought up, and nourished, my enemy hath consumed them.

Psalm 31:12
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