Psalm 38:12 - Psalms of David in Metre 1650 (Scottish Psalter)

¹² Yea, they that seek my life lay snares: who seek to do me wrong Speak things mischievous, and deceits imagine all day long.

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King James Version (Oxford) 1769

¹² They also that seek after my life lay snares for me: And they that seek my hurt speak mischievous things, and imagine deceits all the day long.

Amplified Bible - Classic Edition

¹² They also that seek and demand my life lay snares for me, and they that seek and require my hurt speak crafty and mischievous things; they meditate treachery and deceit all the day long.

American Standard Version (1901)

¹² They also that seek after my life lay snares for me; And they that seek my hurt speak mischievous things, And meditate deceits all the day long.

Common English Bible

¹² Those who want me dead lay traps; those who want me harmed utter threats, muttering lies all day long.

Catholic Public Domain Version

¹² I fall short at corrections from the strength of your hand. For you have chastised man for iniquity. And you have made his soul shrink away like a spider. Nevertheless, it is in vain that any man be disquieted.

Douay-Rheims version of The Bible - 1752 version

¹² thou hast corrected man for iniquity. And thou hast made his soul to waste away like a spider: surely in vain is any man disquieted.

Psalm 38:12 Cross References

Psalm 10:9

He, lion-like, lurks in his den; he waits the poor to take; And when he draws him in his net, his prey he doth him make.

Psalm 119:110

I err'd not from them, though for me the wicked snares did set.

Psalm 140:5

The proud for me a snare have hid, and cords; yea, they a net Have by the way-side for me spread; they gins for me have set.

Psalm 141:9

Lord, keep me safely from the snares which they for me prepare; And from the subtile gins of them that wicked workers are.

Psalm 31:12

Ev'n so I am forgot, As men are out of mind when dead: I'm like a broken pot.

Psalm 35:20

For peace they do not speak at all; but crafty plots prepare Against all those within the land that meek and quiet are.

Psalm 35:4

Let them confounded be and sham'd that for my soul have sought: Who plot my hurt turn'd back be they, and to confusion brought.

Psalm 41:5

Those that to me are enemies, of me do evil say, When shall he die, that so his name may perish quite away?

Psalm 54:3

For they that strangers are to me do up against me rise; Oppressors seek my soul, and God set not before their eyes.

Psalm 69:9

Because the zeal did eat me up, which to thine house I bear; And the reproaches cast at thee, upon me fallen are.

Psalm 88:9

By reason of affliction mine eye mourns dolefully: To thee, Lord, do I call, and stretch my hands continually.