Psalm 54:3 - New Revised Standard Version Updated Edition 2021

³ For the insolent have risen against me; the ruthless seek my life; they do not set God before them. Selah

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King James Version (Oxford) 1769

³ 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

³ 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)

³ 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

³ The proud have come up against me; violent people want me dead. They pay no attention to God. Selah

Catholic Public Domain Version

³ Be attentive to me, and heed me. I have been grieved in my training, and I have been disturbed

Psalm 54:3 Cross References

Psalm 86:14

O God, the insolent rise up against me; a band of ruffians seeks my life, and they do not set you before them.

Psalm 36:1

Transgression speaks to the wicked deep in their hearts; there is no fear of God before their eyes.

John 16:3

And they will do this because they have not known the Father or me.

Psalm 53:4

Have they no knowledge, those evildoers, who eat up my people as they eat bread and do not call upon God?

Psalm 40:14

Let all those be put to shame and confusion who seek to snatch away my life; let those be turned back and brought to dishonor who desire my hurt.

Psalm 22:16

For dogs are all around me; a company of evildoers encircles me; they bound my hands and feet.

Psalm 16:8

I keep the Lord always before me; because he is at my right hand, I shall not be moved.

Psalm 69:8

I have become a stranger to my kindred, an alien to my mother’s children.

Psalm 20:2

May he send you help from the sanctuary and give you support from Zion.

Psalm 43:1

Vindicate me, O God, and defend my cause against an ungodly people; from those who are deceitful and unjust, deliver me!