Psalms 41:7
5 Mine enemies speak evil of me, When shall he die, and his name perish?
6 And if he come to see me, he speaketh vanity: his heart gathereth iniquity to itself; when he goeth abroad, he telleth it.
All that hate me whisper together against me: against me do they devise my hurt.
8 An evil disease, say they, cleaveth fast unto him: and now that he lieth he shall rise up no more.
9 Yea, mine own familiar friend, in whom I trusted, which did eat of my bread, hath lifted up his heel against me.
Do read the surrounding verses too, because the context often says more than a single verse.
Compare
- BSB
- All who hate me whisper against me; they imagine the worst for me:
- KJV
- All that hate me whisper together against me: against me do they devise my hurt.
- WEB
- All who hate me whisper together against me. They imagine the worst for me.
- ASV
- All that hate me whisper together against me; Against me do they devise my hurt.
- DARBY
- All that hate me whisper together against me; against me do they devise my hurt.
- BLB
- All those hating me, they whisper together against me; against me they devise evil to me:
- ÅB
- Alle som hater meg, hvisker sammen mot meg;
de tenker ut ondt mot meg: - OTB
- Alle som forakter meg hvisker sammen mot meg;
De planlegger skade mot meg og sier, - B1930
- Alle de som hater mig, hvisker sammen imot mig; de optenker imot mig det som er mig til skade:
Study notes (Tyndale)
Original text and word study
Cross references
Proverbs 16:28
A froward man soweth strife: and a whisperer separateth chief friends.
Read in contextMatthew 26:3–4
Then assembled together the chief priests, and the scribes, and the elders of the people, unto the palace of the high priest, who was called Caiaphas,
Read in contextPsalms 56:5–6
Every day they wrest my words: all their thoughts are against me for evil.
Read in contextMatthew 22:15
Then went the Pharisees, and took counsel how they might entangle him in his talk.
Read in contextRomans 1:29
Being filled with all unrighteousness, fornication, wickedness, covetousness, maliciousness; full of envy, murder, debate, deceit, malignity; whisperers,
Read in context2 Corinthians 12:20
For I fear, lest, when I come, I shall not find you such as I would, and that I shall be found unto you such as ye would not: lest there be debates, envyings, wraths, strifes, backbitings, whisperings, swellings, tumults:
Read in contextProverbs 26:20
Where no wood is, there the fire goeth out: so where there is no talebearer, the strife ceaseth.
Read in contextPsalms 31:13
For I have heard the slander of many: fear was on every side: while they took counsel together against me, they devised to take away my life.
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