Psalm 55:3 - Revised Version with Apocrypha 1895

Because of the voice of the enemy, Because of the oppression of the wicked; For they cast iniquity upon me, And in anger they persecute me.

More versions

King James Version (Oxford) 1769

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.

Amplified Bible - Classic Edition

[And I am distracted] at the noise of the enemy, because of the oppression and threats of the wicked; for they would cast trouble upon me, and in wrath they persecute me.

American Standard Version (1901)

Because of the voice of the enemy, Because of the oppression of the wicked; For they cast iniquity upon me, And in anger they persecute me.

Common English Bible

over the enemy’s noise, at the wicked person’s racket, because they bring disaster on me and harass me furiously.

Catholic Public Domain Version

My enemies have trampled over me all day long. For those who make war against me are many.

Douay-Rheims version of The Bible - 1752 version

My enemies have trodden on me all the day long; for they are many that make war against me.

Psalm 55:3 Cross References

2 Samuel 15:3

And Absalom said unto him, See, thy matters are good and right; but there is no man deputed of the king to hear thee.

2 Samuel 19:19

And he said unto the king, Let not my lord impute iniquity unto me, neither do thou remember that which thy servant did perversely the day that my lord the king went out of Jerusalem, that the king should take it to his heart.

Psalm 12:5

For the spoiling of the poor, for the sighing of the needy, Now will I arise, saith the LORD; I will set him in safety at whom they puff.

Psalm 17:9

From the wicked that spoil me, My deadly enemies, that compass me about.

Psalm 27:12

Deliver me not over unto the will of mine adversaries: For false witnesses are risen up against me, and such as breathe out cruelty.

Psalm 35:11

Unrighteous witnesses rise up; They ask me of things that I know not.

Psalm 54:3

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

Psalm 71:11

Saying, God hath forsaken him: Pursue and take him; for there is none to deliver.

Psalm 73:8

They scoff, and in wickedness utter oppression: They speak loftily.

Matthew 26:59

Now the chief priests and the whole council sought false witness against Jesus, that they might put him to death;