Psalms 41:7 · KJV
“All that hate me whisper together against me: against me do they devise my hurt. {my...: Heb. evil to me}”
— Psalms 41:7
And if he come to see {me}, he speaketh vanity: his heart gathereth iniquity to itself; {when} he goeth abroad, he telleth {it}.
An evil disease, {say they}, cleaveth fast unto him: and {now} that he lieth he shall rise up no more. {An...: Heb. A thing of Belial}
Psalms 41 — Context
Mine enemies speak evil of me, When shall he die, and his name perish?
6And if he come to see {me}, he speaketh vanity: his heart gathereth iniquity to itself; {when} he goeth abroad, he telleth {it}.
7All that hate me whisper together against me: against me do they devise my hurt. {my...: Heb. evil to me}
8An evil disease, {say they}, cleaveth fast unto him: and {now} that he lieth he shall rise up no more. {An...: Heb. A thing of Belial}
9Yea, mine own familiar friend, in whom I trusted, which did eat of my bread, hath lifted up {his} heel against me. {mine...: Heb. the man of my peace} {lifted...: Heb. magnified}
Cross References
Proverbs 16:28
A froward man soweth strife: and a whisperer separateth chief friends. {soweth: Heb. sendeth forth}
Matthew 22:15
And they sent out unto him their disciples with the Herodians, saying, Master, we know that thou art true, and teachest the way of God in truth, neither carest thou for any {man}: for thou regardest not the person of men.
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,
Psalms 56:5-6
Every day they wrest my words: all their thoughts {are} against me for evil.
Proverbs 26:20
Where no wood is, {there} the fire goeth out: so where {there is} no talebearer, the strife ceaseth. {Where no...: Heb. Without wood} {talebearer: or, whisperer} {ceaseth: Heb. is silent}
Romans 1:29
Being filled with all unrighteousness, fornication, wickedness, covetousness, maliciousness; full of envy, murder, debate, deceit, malignity; whisperers,
2 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:
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.