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Psalms 56:6
Psalms 56:6 is verse 6 of Psalms chapter 56, shown here in the Berean Standard Bible.
Berean Standard Bible
They conspire, they lurk, they watch my steps while they wait to take my life.
King James Version
They gather themselves together, they hide themselves, they mark my steps, when they wait for my soul.
World English Bible
They conspire and lurk, watching my steps. They are eager to take my life.
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Psalms 56:4–8 · Berean Standard Bible
4 In God, whose word I praise— in God I trust. I will not be afraid. What can man do to me?
5 All day long they twist my words; all their thoughts are on my demise.
6 They conspire, they lurk, they watch my steps while they wait to take my life.
7 In spite of such sin, will they escape? In Your anger, O God, cast down the nations.
8 You have taken account of my wanderings. Put my tears in Your bottle— are they not in Your book?
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Cross-references
The Treasury of Scripture Knowledge lists these related verses. Scripture text comes from the Berean Standard Bible.
Psalms 2:1Why do the nations rage and the peoples plot in vain?
Psalms 2:2The kings of the earth take their stand and the rulers gather together, against the LORD and against His Anointed One:
Psalms 2:3“Let us break Their chains and cast away Their cords.”
Psalms 59:3See how they lie in wait for me. Fierce men conspire against me for no transgression or sin of my own, O LORD.
Psalms 71:10For my enemies speak against me, and those who lie in wait for my life conspire,
Psalms 140:2who devise evil in their hearts and stir up war all day long.
Matthew 26:3At that time the chief priests and elders of the people assembled in the courtyard of the high priest, whose name was Caiaphas,
Matthew 26:4and they conspired to arrest Jesus covertly and kill Him.
Matthew 26:57Those who had arrested Jesus led Him away to the house of Caiaphas the high priest, where the scribes and elders had gathered.
Matthew 27:1When morning came, all the chief priests and elders of the people conspired against Jesus to put Him to death.
Acts 4:5The next day the rulers, elders, and scribes assembled in Jerusalem,
Acts 4:6along with Annas the high priest, Caiaphas, John, Alexander, and many others from the high priest’s family.
Acts 23:12When daylight came, the Jews formed a conspiracy and bound themselves with an oath not to eat or drink until they had killed Paul.
Acts 23:13More than forty of them were involved in this plot.
Acts 23:14They went to the chief priests and elders and said, “We have bound ourselves with a solemn oath not to eat anything until we have killed Paul.
Psalms 10:8He lies in wait near the villages; in ambush he slays the innocent; his eyes watch in stealth for the helpless.
Psalms 10:9He lies in wait like a lion in a thicket; he lurks to seize the oppressed; he catches the lowly in his net.
Psalms 10:10They are crushed and beaten down; the hapless fall prey to his strength.
Psalms 64:2Hide me from the scheming of the wicked, from the mob of workers of iniquity,
Psalms 64:3who sharpen their tongues like swords and aim their bitter words like arrows,
Psalms 64:4ambushing the innocent in seclusion, shooting suddenly, without fear.
Psalms 64:5They hold fast to their evil purpose; they speak of hiding their snares. “Who will see them?” they say.
Psalms 64:6They devise injustice and say, “We have perfected a secret plan.” For the inner man and the heart are mysterious.
Daniel 6:4Thus the administrators and satraps sought a charge against Daniel concerning the kingdom, but they could find no charge or corruption, because he was trustworthy, and no negligence or corruption was found in him.
Psalms 37:32Though the wicked lie in wait for the righteous, and seek to slay them,
Psalms 57:6They spread a net for my feet; my soul was despondent. They dug a pit before me, but they themselves have fallen into it! Selah
Psalms 89:51how Your enemies have taunted, O LORD, and have mocked every step of Your anointed one!
Job 14:16For then You would count my steps, but would not keep track of my sin.
Job 31:4Does He not see my ways and count my every step?
Jeremiah 20:10For I have heard the whispering of many: “Terror is on every side! Report him; let us report him!” All my trusted friends watch for my fall: “Perhaps he will be deceived so that we may prevail against him and take our vengeance upon him.”
Luke 20:20So they watched Him closely and sent spies who pretended to be sincere. They were hoping to catch Him in His words in order to hand Him over to the rule and authority of the governor.