Psalms 71:10 · KJV
“For mine enemies speak against me; and they that lay wait for my soul take counsel together, {lay...: Heb. watch, or, observe}”
— Psalms 71:10
Cast me not off in the time of old age; forsake me not when my strength faileth.
Saying, God hath forsaken him: persecute and take him; for {there is} none to deliver {him}.
Psalms 71 — Context
Let my mouth be filled {with} thy praise {and with} thy honour all the day.
9Cast me not off in the time of old age; forsake me not when my strength faileth.
10For mine enemies speak against me; and they that lay wait for my soul take counsel together, {lay...: Heb. watch, or, observe}
11Saying, God hath forsaken him: persecute and take him; for {there is} none to deliver {him}.
12O God, be not far from me: O my God, make haste for my help.
Cross References
Psalms 56:6
They gather themselves together, they hide themselves, they mark my steps, when they wait for my soul.
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.
Psalms 83:3
They have taken crafty counsel against thy people, and consulted against thy hidden ones.
Psalms 37:32-33
The wicked watcheth the righteous, and seeketh to slay him.
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,
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}
Psalms 10:9
He lieth in wait secretly as a lion in his den: he lieth in wait to catch the poor: he doth catch the poor, when he draweth him into his net. {secretly: Heb. in the secret places}
1 Samuel 19:11
Saul also sent messengers unto David's house, to watch him, and to slay him in the morning: and Michal David's wife told him, saying, If thou save not thy life to night, to morrow thou shalt be slain.