Psalm 54:3 - Revised Standard Version (RSV-CI)

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

More versions

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

Douay-Rheims version of The Bible - 1752 version

³ be attentive to me and hear me. I am grieved in my exercise; and am troubled,

Psalm 54:3 Cross References

Psalm 16:8

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

Psalm 20:2

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

Psalm 22:16

Yea, dogs are round about me; a company of evildoers encircle me; they have pierced my hands and feet—

Psalm 36:1

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

Psalm 40:14

Let them be put to shame and confusion altogether who seek to snatch away my life; let them be turned back and brought to dishonor who desire my hurt!

Psalm 43:1

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

Psalm 53:4

Have those who work evil no understanding, who eat up my people as they eat bread, and do not call upon God?

Psalm 69:8

I have become a stranger to my brethren, an alien to my mother's sons.

Psalm 86:14

O God, insolent men have risen up against me; a band of ruthless men seek my life, and they do not set thee before them.

John 16:3

And they will do this because they have not known the Father, nor me.