Psalms 59:3 · KJV
“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 59:3
Deliver me from the workers of iniquity, and save me from bloody men.
They run and prepare themselves without {my} fault: awake to help me, and behold. {help: Heb. meet}
Psalms 59 — Context
[To the chief Musician, Altaschith, Michtam of David; when Saul sent, and they watched the house to kill him.] Deliver me from mine enemies, O my God: defend me from them that rise up against me. {Altaschith...: or, Destroy not} {Michtam: or, A golden Psalm} {defend...: Heb. set me on high}
2Deliver me from the workers of iniquity, and save me from bloody men.
3For, lo, they lie in wait for my soul: the mighty are gathered against me; not {for} my transgression, nor {for} my sin, O LORD.
4They run and prepare themselves without {my} fault: awake to help me, and behold. {help: Heb. meet}
5Thou therefore, O LORD God of hosts, the God of Israel, awake to visit all the heathen: be not merciful to any wicked transgressors. Selah.
Cross References
Psalms 56:6
They gather themselves together, they hide themselves, they mark my steps, when they wait for my soul.
Psalms 69:4
They that hate me without a cause are more than the hairs of mine head: they that would destroy me, {being} mine enemies wrongfully, are mighty: then I restored {that} which I took not away.
1 Samuel 24:11
Moreover, my father, see, yea, see the skirt of thy robe in my hand: for in that I cut off the skirt of thy robe, and killed thee not, know thou and see that {there is} neither evil nor transgression in mine hand, and I have not sinned against thee; yet thou huntest my soul to take it.
Proverbs 12:6
The words of the wicked {are} to lie in wait for blood: but the mouth of the upright shall deliver them.
John 15:25
But {this cometh to pass}, that the word might be fulfilled that is written in their law, They hated me without a cause.
Micah 7:2
The good {man} is perished out of the earth: and {there is} none upright among men: they all lie in wait for blood; they hunt every man his brother with a net. {good: or, godly, or, merciful}
Psalms 37:32-33
The wicked watcheth the righteous, and seeketh to slay him.
1 Samuel 19:1
And Saul spake to Jonathan his son, and to all his servants, that they should kill David.