Parallel Verses

Modern King James verseion

The wicked have waited for me to destroy me; but I will think on Your testimonies.

New American Standard Bible

The wicked wait for me to destroy me;
I shall diligently consider Your testimonies.

King James Version

The wicked have waited for me to destroy me: but I will consider thy testimonies.

Holman Bible

The wicked hope to destroy me,
but I contemplate Your decrees.

International Standard Version

The wicked lay in wait to destroy me, while I ponder your decrees.

A Conservative Version

The wicked have waited for me, to destroy me. I will consider thy testimonies.

American Standard Version

The wicked have waited for me, to destroy me; But I will consider thy testimonies.

Amplified


The wicked wait for me to destroy me,
But I will consider Your testimonies.

Bible in Basic English

The sinners have been waiting for me to give me up to destruction; but I will give all my mind to your unchanging ward.

Darby Translation

The wicked have awaited me to destroy me; but I attend unto thy testimonies.

Julia Smith Translation

The unjust waited for me to destroy me: I shall understand thy testimonies.

King James 2000

The wicked have waited for me to destroy me: but I will consider your testimonies.

Lexham Expanded Bible

For me [the] wicked [lie in] wait to destroy me. I give attention to your testimonies.

Modern Spelling Tyndale-Coverdale

The ungodly lay wait for me to destroy me, but I consider thy testimonies.

NET Bible

The wicked prepare to kill me, yet I concentrate on your rules.

New Heart English Bible

The wicked have waited for me, to destroy me. I will consider your statutes.

The Emphasized Bible

For me, have the lawless waited, to destroy me, Thy testimonies, will I diligently consider.

Webster

The wicked have waited for me to destroy me: but I will consider thy testimonies.

World English Bible

The wicked have waited for me, to destroy me. I will consider your statutes.

Youngs Literal Translation

Thy wicked waited for me to destroy me, Thy testimonies I understand.

Verse Info

Context Readings

Lamed

94 I am Yours, save me; for I have sought Your Commandments. 95 The wicked have waited for me to destroy me; but I will think on Your testimonies. 96 I have seen an end to all perfection; Your Commandment is exceedingly broad.


Cross References

1 Samuel 23:20-23

And now, O king, come down according to all the desire of your soul. Come down, and it is for us to shut him up into the king's hand.

2 Samuel 17:1-4

And Ahithophel said to Absalom, Please let me choose out twelve thousand men, and I will arise and pursue after David tonight.

Psalm 10:8-10

He sits in the hiding-places of the villages; in the secret places he murders the innocent. His eyes are secretly set against the poor.

Psalm 27:2

When the wicked, my enemies and my foes, came on me to eat my flesh, they stumbled and fell.

Psalm 37:32

The wicked watches the righteous, and seeks to kill him.

Psalm 38:12

And those who seek my life lay snares for me; and those who seek my hurt speak sly things, and utter deceits all the day long.

Psalm 119:24

Your testimonies also are my delight and my advisers.

Psalm 119:31

I have stuck to Your testimonies; O Jehovah, do not put me to shame.

Psalm 119:61

The bands of the wicked have robbed me; but I have not forgotten Your Law.

Psalm 119:69

The proud have forged a lie against me; I will keep Your Commandments with all my heart.

Psalm 119:85-87

The proud have dug pits for me, which are not according to Your Law.

Psalm 119:111

I have taken Your testimonies as an inheritance forever; for they are the rejoicing of my heart.

Psalm 119:125

I am Your servant; give me understanding, that I may know Your testimonies.

Psalm 119:129

PE: Your testimonies are wonderful; therefore my soul keeps them.

Psalm 119:167

My soul has kept Your testimonies; and I love them very much.

Matthew 26:3-5

Then the chief priests, and the scribes, and the elders of the people, assembled together to the palace of the high priest, who was called Caiaphas.

Acts 12:11

And having come to himself, Peter said, Now I know surely that the Lord has sent His angel and has delivered me out of the hand of Herod, and from all the expectation of the people of the Jews.

Acts 23:21

But do not yield to them, for there are more than forty men of them lying in wait for him, who have bound themselves with an oath that they will neither eat nor drink until they have killed him. And now they are ready, looking for a promise from you.

Acts 25:3

asking a favor against him that he would send for him to Jerusalem, making a plot to kill him on way.

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