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Psalms 62:3
Psalms 62:3 is verse 3 of Psalms chapter 62, shown here in the Berean Standard Bible.
Berean Standard Bible
How long will you threaten a man? Will all of you throw him down like a leaning wall or a tottering fence?
King James Version
How long will ye imagine mischief against a man? ye shall be slain all of you: as a bowing wall shall ye be, and as a tottering fence.
World English Bible
How long will you assault a man? Would all of you throw him down, like a leaning wall, like a tottering fence?
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Psalms 62:1–5 · Berean Standard Bible
1 In God alone my soul finds rest; my salvation comes from Him.
2 He alone is my rock and my salvation. He is my fortress; I will never be shaken.
3 How long will you threaten a man? Will all of you throw him down like a leaning wall or a tottering fence?
4 They fully intend to cast him down from his lofty perch; they delight in lies; with their mouths they bless, but inwardly they curse. Selah
5 Rest in God alone, O my soul, for my hope comes from Him.
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Cross-references
The Treasury of Scripture Knowledge lists these related verses. Scripture text comes from the Berean Standard Bible.
Psalms 4:2How long, O men, will my honor be maligned? How long will you love vanity and seek after lies ? Selah
Psalms 82:2“How long will you judge unjustly and show partiality to the wicked? Selah
Exodus 10:3So Moses and Aaron went to Pharaoh and told him, “This is what the LORD, the God of the Hebrews, says: ‘How long will you refuse to humble yourself before Me? Let My people go, so that they may worship Me.
Exodus 16:28Then the LORD said to Moses, “How long will you refuse to keep My commandments and instructions?
Proverbs 1:22“How long, O simple ones, will you love your simple ways? How long will scoffers delight in their scorn and fools hate knowledge?
Proverbs 6:9How long will you lie there, O slacker? When will you get up from your sleep?
Jeremiah 4:14Wash the evil from your heart, O Jerusalem, so that you may be saved. How long will you harbor wicked thoughts within you?
Matthew 17:17“O unbelieving and perverse generation!” Jesus replied. “How long must I remain with you? How long must I put up with you? Bring the boy here to Me.”
Psalms 21:11Though they intend You harm, the schemes they devise will not prevail.
Psalms 38:12Those who seek my life lay snares; those who wish me harm speak destruction, plotting deceit all day long.
Psalms 140:2who devise evil in their hearts and stir up war all day long.
Hosea 7:15Although I trained and strengthened their arms, they plot evil against Me.
Psalms 73:18Surely You set them on slick ground; You cast them down into ruin.
Psalms 73:19How suddenly they are laid waste, completely swept away by terrors!
Psalms 73:20Like one waking from a dream, so You, O Lord, awaken and despise their form.
1 Samuel 26:10David added, “As surely as the LORD lives, the LORD Himself will strike him down; either his day will come and he will die, or he will go into battle and perish.
Isaiah 30:13this iniquity of yours is like a breach about to fail, a bulge in a high wall, whose collapse will come suddenly— in an instant!
Isaiah 30:14It will break in pieces like a potter’s jar, shattered so that no fragment can be found. Not a shard will be found in the dust large enough to scoop the coals from a hearth or to skim the water from a cistern.”