Psalms 31:13 KJV — MannaFest

Psalms 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.

KJV

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ASV

For I have heard the defaming of many, Terror on every side: While they took counsel together against me, They devised to take away my life.

WEB

For I hear the slander of many; there is terror on every side. They conspire against me and plot to take my life.

YLT

For I have heard an evil account of many, Fear is round about. In their being united against me, To take my life they have devised,

DBT

For I have heard the slander of many — terror on every side — when they take counsel together against me: they plot to take away my life.

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Psalms — The canon's longest book — 150 Psalms edited into five doxology-bookended books, composed across a millennium, attributed to David, Asaph, Korah's sons, Moses, Solomon, Heman, Ethan, and anonymous voices. A ''Torah of David''; the Bible's longest continuous liturgical-devotional corpus.

Author: David principally (73 Psalms + 2 NT-cited); Asaph, Sons of Korah, Solomon, Moses, Heman, Ethan; ~50 anonymous.
Date: Composed c. 1400 BC (Mosaic Ps 90) through the post-exilic period (Ps 126 ''when the Lord turned again the captivity of Zion''). Roughly a millennium of composition; editorial compilation likely into the Persian period.

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Psalms 21:11
For they intended evil against thee: they imagined a mischievous device, which they are not able to perform.
Acts 23:12
And when it was day, certain of the Jews banded together, and bound themselves under a curse, saying that they would neither eat nor drink till they had killed Paul.
Jeremiah 20:10
For I heard the defaming of many, fear on every side. Report, say they, and we will report it. All my familiars watched for my halting, saying, Peradventure he will be enticed, and we shall prevail against him, and we shall take our revenge on him.
Matthew 27:1
When the morning was come, all the chief priests and elders of the people took counsel against Jesus to put him to death:
Lamentations 2:22
Thou hast called as in a solemn day my terrors round about, so that in the day of the Lord’s anger none escaped nor remained: those that I have swaddled and brought up hath mine enemy consumed.

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), a life so valuable, so useful, to the good services of which all Israel owed so much, and which was never forfeited. Thus, in all the plots of the Pharisees and Herodians against Christ, still the design was to take away his life, such are the enmity and cruelty of the serpent's seed.

Matthew Henry· Commentary on the Whole Bible, 1710puritan

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PSA 31:13LAM 2:22 JER 6:25
Reached by 2 independent paths from here.
PSA 31:13MAT 27:1 MRK 15:1
PSA 31:13JER 20:10 PSA 41:9
PSA 31:13JER 20:10 ISA 29:21
PSA 31:13MAT 27:1 JHN 18:28
PSA 31:13JER 20:10 JER 18:18
PSA 31:13JER 20:10 PRO 10:18
PSA 31:13MAT 27:1 LUK 22:66

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