Psalm 54:3 - Revised Version with Apocrypha 1895

For strangers are risen up against me, And violent men have sought after my soul: They have not set God before them. Selah

More versions

King James Version (Oxford) 1769

For strangers are risen up against me, And oppressors seek after my soul: They have not set God before them. Selah.

Amplified Bible - Classic Edition

For strangers and insolent men are rising up against me, and violent men and ruthless ones seek and demand my life; they do not set God before them. Selah [pause, and calmly think of that]!

American Standard Version (1901)

For strangers are risen up against me, And violent men have sought after my soul: They have not set God before them. [Selah

Common English Bible

The proud have come up against me; violent people want me dead. They pay no attention to God. Selah

Catholic Public Domain Version

Be attentive to me, and heed me. I have been grieved in my training, and I have been disturbed

Douay-Rheims version of The Bible - 1752 version

be attentive to me and hear me. I am grieved in my exercise; and am troubled,

Psalm 54:3 Cross References

Psalm 16:8

I have set the LORD always before me: Because he is at my right hand, I shall not be moved.

Psalm 20:2

Send thee help from the sanctuary, And strengthen thee out of Zion;

Psalm 22:16

For dogs have compassed me: The assembly of evil-doers have enclosed me; They pierced my hands and my feet.

Psalm 36:1

The transgression of the wicked saith within my heart, There is no fear of God before his eyes.

Psalm 40:14

Let them be ashamed and confounded together That seek after my soul to destroy it: Let them be turned backward and brought to dishonour That delight in my hurt.

Psalm 43:1

Judge me, O God, and plead my cause against an ungodly nation: O deliver me from the deceitful and unjust man.

Psalm 53:4

Have the workers of iniquity no knowledge? Who eat up my people as they eat bread, And call not upon God.

Psalm 69:8

I am become a stranger unto my brethren, And an alien unto my mother's children.

Psalm 86:14

O God, the proud are risen up against me, And the congregation of violent men have sought after my soul, And have not set thee before them.

John 16:3

And these things will they do, because they have not known the Father, nor me.