Psalm 37:12 - New Revised Standard Version Updated Edition 2021

¹² The wicked plot against the righteous and gnash their teeth at them,

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King James Version (Oxford) 1769

¹² The wicked plotteth against the just, And gnasheth upon him with his teeth.

Amplified Bible - Classic Edition

¹² The wicked plot against the [uncompromisingly] righteous (the upright in right standing with God); they gnash at them with their teeth.

American Standard Version (1901)

¹² The wicked plotteth against the just, And gnasheth upon him with his teeth.

Common English Bible

¹² The wicked plot against the righteous, grinding their teeth at them.

Catholic Public Domain Version

¹² My friends and my neighbors have drawn near and stood against me. And those who were next to me stood far apart. And those who sought my soul used violence.

Psalm 37:12 Cross References

Micah 2:1

Woe to those who devise wickedness and evil deeds on their beds! When the morning dawns, they perform it, because it is in their power.

Psalm 35:16

they impiously mocked more and more, gnashing at me with their teeth.

Daniel 8:12

Because of wickedness, the host was given over to it together with the regular burnt offering; it cast truth to the ground and kept prospering in what it did.

Psalm 31:13

For I hear the whispering of many— terror all around!— as they scheme together against me, as they plot to take my life.

Matthew 26:16

And from that moment he began to look for an opportunity to betray him.

Matthew 26:4

and they conspired to arrest Jesus by stealth and kill him.

Daniel 8:24

He shall grow strong in power, shall cause fearful destruction, and shall succeed in what he does. He shall destroy the powerful and the people of the holy ones.

Esther 3:6

But he thought it beneath him to kill only Mordecai. So, having been told who Mordecai’s people were, Haman plotted to destroy all the Jews, the people of Mordecai, throughout the whole kingdom of Ahasuerus.

1 Samuel 18:21

Saul thought, “Let me give her to him that she may be a snare for him and that the hand of the Philistines may be against him.” Therefore Saul said to David a second time, “You shall now be my son-in-law.”

Psalm 37:32

The wicked watch for the righteous and seek to kill them.

Genesis 39:16

Then she kept his garment by her until his master came home,

Esther 3:5

When Haman saw that Mordecai did not bow down or do obeisance to him, Haman was infuriated.

Esther 5:13

Yet all this does me no good so long as I see Mordecai the Jew sitting at the king’s gate.”

Psalm 34:22

The Lord redeems the life of his servants; none of those who take refuge in him will be condemned.