Psalms 56:6 · KJV
“They gather themselves together, they hide themselves, they mark my steps, when they wait for my soul.”
— Psalms 56:6
Every day they wrest my words: all their thoughts {are} against me for evil.
Shall they escape by iniquity? in {thine} anger cast down the people, O God.
Psalms 56 — Context
In God I will praise his word, in God I have put my trust; I will not fear what flesh can do unto me.
5Every day they wrest my words: all their thoughts {are} against me for evil.
6They gather themselves together, they hide themselves, they mark my steps, when they wait for my soul.
7Shall they escape by iniquity? in {thine} anger cast down the people, O God.
8Thou tellest my wanderings: put thou my tears into thy bottle: {are they} not in thy book?
Cross References
Psalms 71:10
For mine enemies speak against me; and they that lay wait for my soul take counsel together, {lay...: Heb. watch, or, observe}
Psalms 59:3
For, lo, they lie in wait for my soul: the mighty are gathered against me; not {for} my transgression, nor {for} my sin, O LORD.
Psalms 140:2
Which imagine mischiefs in {their} heart; continually are they gathered together {for} war.
Luke 20:20
And they watched {him}, and sent forth spies, which should feign themselves just men, that they might take hold of his words, that so they might deliver him unto the power and authority of the governor.
Acts 23:12-14
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. {under a curse: or, with an oath of execration}
Psalms 2:1-3
Why do the heathen rage, and the people imagine a vain thing? {rage: or, tumultuously assemble} {imagine: Heb. meditate}
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:
Matthew 26:57
But Peter followed him afar off unto the high priest's palace, and went in, and sat with the servants, to see the end.