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Psalms 55:3
Psalms 55:3 is verse 3 of Psalms chapter 55, shown here in the Berean Standard Bible.
Berean Standard Bible
at the voice of the enemy, at the pressure of the wicked. For they release disaster upon me and revile me in their anger.
King James Version
Because of the voice of the enemy, because of the oppression of the wicked: for they cast iniquity upon me, and in wrath they hate me.
World English Bible
because of the voice of the enemy, because of the oppression of the wicked. For they bring suffering on me. In anger they hold a grudge against me.
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Psalms 55:1–5 · Berean Standard Bible
1 Listen to my prayer, O God, and do not ignore my plea.
2 Attend to me and answer me. I am restless in my complaint, and distraught
3 at the voice of the enemy, at the pressure of the wicked. For they release disaster upon me and revile me in their anger.
4 My heart murmurs within me, and the terrors of death assail me.
5 Fear and trembling grip me, and horror has overwhelmed me.
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Cross-references
The Treasury of Scripture Knowledge lists these related verses. Scripture text comes from the Berean Standard Bible.
Psalms 12:5“For the cause of the oppressed and for the groaning of the needy, I will now arise,” says the LORD. “I will bring safety to him who yearns.”
Psalms 54:3For strangers rise up against me, and ruthless men seek my life— men with no regard for God. Selah
Psalms 73:8They mock and speak with malice; with arrogance they threaten oppression.
Lamentations 3:34To crush underfoot all the prisoners of the land,
Lamentations 3:35to deny a man justice before the Most High,
Lamentations 3:36to subvert a man in his lawsuit— of these the Lord does not approve.
Psalms 27:12Do not hand me over to the will of my foes, for false witnesses rise up against me, breathing out violence.
Psalms 35:11Hostile witnesses come forward; they make charges I know nothing about.
2 Samuel 15:3Absalom would say, “Look, your claims are good and right, but the king has no deputy to hear you.”
2 Samuel 16:7And as he yelled curses, Shimei said, “Get out, get out, you worthless man of bloodshed!
2 Samuel 16:8The LORD has paid you back for all the blood of the house of Saul, in whose place you have reigned, and the LORD has delivered the kingdom into the hand of your son Absalom. See, you have come to ruin because you are a man of bloodshed!”
2 Samuel 19:19and said, “My lord, do not hold me guilty, and do not remember your servant’s wrongdoing on the day my lord the king left Jerusalem. May the king not take it to heart.
Matthew 26:59Now the chief priests and the whole Sanhedrin were seeking false testimony against Jesus in order to put Him to death.