Psalm 37:32 - Revised Standard Version CI

³² The wicked watches the righteous, and seeks to slay him.

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King James Version (Oxford) 1769

³² The wicked watcheth the righteous, And seeketh to slay him.

Amplified Bible - Classic Edition

³² The wicked lie in wait for the [uncompromisingly] righteous and seek to put them to death.

American Standard Version (1901)

³² The wicked watcheth the righteous, And seeketh to slay him.

Common English Bible

³² The wicked, on the other hand, target the righteous, seeking to kill them.

Psalm 37:32 Cross References

Genesis 39:16

Then she laid up his garment by her until his master came home,

2 Kings 6:13

And he said, “Go and see where he is, that I may send and seize him.” It was told him, “Behold, he is in Dothan.”

Psalm 37:12

The wicked plots against the righteous, and gnashes his teeth at him;

Psalm 56:7

so recompense them for their crime; in wrath cast down the peoples, O God!

Proverbs 24:15

Lie not in wait as a wicked man against the dwelling of the righteous; do not violence to his home;

Jeremiah 11:19

But I was like a gentle lamb led to the slaughter. I did not know it was against me they devised schemes, saying, “Let us destroy the tree with its fruit, let us cut him off from the land of the living, that his name be remembered no more.”

Jeremiah 18:23

Yet, thou, O Lord, knowest all their plotting to slay me. Forgive not their iniquity, nor blot out their sin from thy sight. Let them be overthrown before thee; deal with them in the time of thine anger.

Jeremiah 20:10

For I hear many whispering. Terror is on every side! “Denounce him! Let us denounce him!” say all my familiar friends, watching for my fall. “Perhaps he will be deceived, then we can overcome him, and take our revenge on him.”

Daniel 6:5

Then these men said, “We shall not find any ground for complaint against this Daniel unless we find it in connection with the law of his God.”

Luke 11:54

lying in wait for him, to catch at something he might say.

Luke 14:1

One sabbath when he went to dine at the house of a ruler who belonged to the Pharisees, they were watching him.

Luke 20:20

So they watched him, and sent spies, who pretended to be sincere, that they might take hold of what he said, so as to deliver him up to the authority and jurisdiction of the governor.

Luke 6:7

And the scribes and the Pharisees watched him, to see whether he would heal on the sabbath, so that they might find an accusation against him.

Acts 9:24

but their plot became known to Saul. They were watching the gates day and night, to kill him;

1 Samuel 19:10

And Saul sought to pin David to the wall with the spear; but he eluded Saul, so that he struck the spear into the wall. And David fled, and escaped.

1 Samuel 23:14

And David remained in the strongholds in the wilderness, in the hill country of the Wilderness of Ziph. And Saul sought him every day, but God did not give him into his hand.