Psalm 62:3 {61:4}
Good News Translation
How much longer will all of you attack someone who is no stronger than a broken-down fence?

New Revised Standard Version
How long will you assail a person, will you batter your victim, all of you, as you would a leaning wall, a tottering fence?

Contemporary English Version
I feel like a shaky fence or a sagging wall. How long will all of you attack and assault me?

New American Bible
How long will you set yourself against a man? You shall all be destroyed, Like a sagging wall or a tumbled down fence!

Douay-Rheims Bible
How long do you rush in upon a man? you all kill, as if you were thrusting down a leaning wall, and a tottering fence.

Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

How long do you rush in upon a man? you all kill, as if you were thrusting down a leaning wall, and a tottering fence.

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Psalm 4:2 O ye sons of men, how long will you be dull of heart? why do you love vanity, and seek after lying?

Psalm 82:2 How long will you judge unjustly: and accept the persons of the wicked?

Exodus 10:3 Therefore Moses and Aaron went in to Pharao, and said to him: Thus saith the Lord God of the Hebrews: How long refusest thou to submit to me? let my people go, to sacrifice to me.

Exodus 16:28 And the Lord said to Moses: How long will you refuse to keep my commandments, and my law?

Proverbs 1:22 Turn ye at my reproof: behold I will utter my spirit to you, and will shew you my words.

Proverbs 6:9 Thou wilt sleep a little, thou wilt slumber a little, thou wilt fold thy hands a little to sleep:

Jeremiah 4:14 Wash thy heart from wickedness, O Jerusalem, that thou mayst be saved: how long shall hurtful thoughts abide in thee?

Matthew 17:17 And Jesus rebuked him, and the devil went out of him, and the child was cured from that hour.

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Psalm 21:11 For they have intended evils against thee: they have devised counsels which they have not been able to establish.

Psalm 38:12 And they that sought my soul used violence. And they that sought evils to me spoke vain things, and studied deceits all the day long.

Psalm 140:2 Who have devised iniquities in their hearts: all the day long they designed battles.

Hosea 7:15 And I have chastised them, and strengthened their arms: and they have imagined evil against me.

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Psalm 73:18-20 But indeed for deceits thou hast put it to them: when they were lifted up thou hast cast them down. . . .

1 Samuel 26:10 And David said: As the Lord liveth, unless the Lord shall strike him, or his day shall come to die, or he shall go down to battle, and perish:

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Isaiah 30:13,14 Therefore shall this iniquity be to you as a breach that falleth, and is found wanting in a high wall, for the destruction thereof shall come on a sudden, when it is not looked for. . . .

Context
Waiting on God
2For he is my God and my saviour: he is my protector, I shall be moved no more. 3How long do you rush in upon a man? you all kill, as if you were thrusting down a leaning wall, and a tottering fence.4But they have thought to cast away my price; I ran in thirst: they blessed with their mouth, but cursed with their heart.…
Cross References
Job 4:4
Thy words have confirmed them that were staggering, and thou hast strengthened the trembling knees:

Isaiah 30:13
Therefore shall this iniquity be to you as a breach that falleth, and is found wanting in a high wall, for the destruction thereof shall come on a sudden, when it is not looked for.

Psalm 62:2
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