Psalms 109:3
1 Hold not thy peace, O God of my praise;
2 For the mouth of the wicked and the mouth of the deceitful are opened against me: they have spoken against me with a lying tongue.
They compassed me about also with words of hatred; and fought against me without a cause.
4 For my love they are my adversaries: but I give myself unto prayer.
5 And they have rewarded me evil for good, and hatred for my love.
Do read the surrounding verses too, because the context often says more than a single verse.
Compare
- BSB
- They surround me with hateful words and attack me without cause.
- KJV
- They compassed me about also with words of hatred; and fought against me without a cause.
- WEB
- They have also surrounded me with words of hatred, and fought against me without a cause.
- ASV
- They have compassed me about also with words of hatred, And fought against me without a cause.
- DARBY
- And with words of hatred have they encompassed me; and they fight against me without a cause.
- BLB
- and with words of hatred they surround me, and they fight me without cause.
- ÅB
- Og med hatets ord har de omgitt meg og stridt imot meg uten årsak.
- OTB
- De har omringet meg med hatets ord,
Og kjempet mot meg uten grunn. - B1930
- Og med hatets ord har de omgitt mig og stridt imot mig uten årsak.
Study notes (Tyndale)
Original text and word study
Cross references
Psalms 69:4
They that hate me without a cause are more than the hairs of mine head: they that would destroy me, being mine enemies wrongfully, are mighty: then I restored that which I took not away.
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For without cause have they hid for me their net in a pit, which without cause they have digged for my soul.
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For they speak not peace: but they devise deceitful matters against them that are quiet in the land.
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If I had not done among them the works which none other man did, they had not had sin: but now have they both seen and hated both me and my Father.
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They came round about me daily like water; they compassed me about together.
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And thus said Shimei when he cursed, Come out, come out, thou bloody man, and thou man of Belial:
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They have now compassed us in our steps: they have set their eyes bowing down to the earth;
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And he said, Wherefore doth my lord thus pursue after his servant? for what have I done? or what evil is in mine hand?
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