For I have heard the defaming of many, Terror on every side: While they took counsel together against me, They devised to take away my life.
Psalm 41:7 - Revised Version with Apocrypha 1895 All that hate me whisper together against me: Against me do they devise my hurt. More versionsKing James Version (Oxford) 1769 All that hate me whisper together against me: Against me do they devise my hurt. Amplified Bible - Classic Edition All who hate me whisper together about me; against me do they devise my hurt [imagining the worst for me]. American Standard Version (1901) All that hate me whisper together against me; Against me do they devise my hurt. Common English Bible All of those who hate me talk about me, whispering to each other, plotting evil against me: Catholic Public Domain Version and my God. My soul has been troubled within myself. Because of this, I will remember you from the land of the Jordan and from Hermon, from the little mountain. Douay-Rheims version of The Bible - 1752 version and my God. My soul is troubled within myself: therefore will I remember thee from the land of Jordan and Hermoniim, from the little hill. |
For I have heard the defaming of many, Terror on every side: While they took counsel together against me, They devised to take away my life.
A froward man scattereth abroad strife: And a whisperer separateth chief friends.
For lack of wood the fire goeth out: And where there is no whisperer, contention ceaseth.
Then went the Pharisees, and took counsel how they might ensnare him in his talk.
being filled with all unrighteousness, wickedness, covetousness, maliciousness; full of envy, murder, strife, deceit, malignity; whisperers,
For I fear, lest by any means, when I come, I should find you not such as I would, and should myself be found of you such as ye would not; lest by any means there should be strife, jealousy, wraths, factions, backbitings, whisperings, swellings, tumults;