Psalms 31:13 · KJV
“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.”
— Psalms 31:13
I am forgotten as a dead man out of mind: I am like a broken vessel. {a broken...: Heb. a vessel that perisheth}
But I trusted in thee, O LORD: I said, Thou {art} my God.
Psalms 31 — Context
I was a reproach among all mine enemies, but especially among my neighbours, and a fear to mine acquaintance: they that did see me without fled from me.
12I am forgotten as a dead man out of mind: I am like a broken vessel. {a broken...: Heb. a vessel that perisheth}
13For 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.
14But I trusted in thee, O LORD: I said, Thou {art} my God.
15My times {are} in thy hand: deliver me from the hand of mine enemies, and from them that persecute me.
Cross References
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. {All...: Heb. Every man of my peace}
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.
1 Samuel 20:33
And Saul cast a javelin at him to smite him: whereby Jonathan knew that it was determined of his father to slay David.
Matthew 26:59
But found none: yea, though many false witnesses came, {yet} found they none. At the last came two false witnesses,
Matthew 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,
2 Samuel 17:1-4
Moreover Ahithophel said unto Absalom, Let me now choose out twelve thousand men, and I will arise and pursue after David this night:
Psalms 55:10
Day and night they go about it upon the walls thereof: mischief also and sorrow {are} in the midst of it.