Psalm 55:3 - Revised Standard Version (RSV-CI)

³ by the noise of the enemy, because of the oppression of the wicked. For they bring trouble upon me, and in anger they cherish enmity against me.

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King James Version (Oxford) 1769

³ Because of the voice of the enemy, Because of the oppression of the wicked: For they cast iniquity upon me, And in wrath they hate me.

Amplified Bible - Classic Edition

³ [And I am distracted] at the noise of the enemy, because of the oppression and threats of the wicked; for they would cast trouble upon me, and in wrath they persecute me.

American Standard Version (1901)

³ Because of the voice of the enemy, Because of the oppression of the wicked; For they cast iniquity upon me, And in anger they persecute me.

Common English Bible

³ over the enemy’s noise, at the wicked person’s racket, because they bring disaster on me and harass me furiously.

Catholic Public Domain Version

³ My enemies have trampled over me all day long. For those who make war against me are many.

Douay-Rheims version of The Bible - 1752 version

³ My enemies have trodden on me all the day long; for they are many that make war against me.

Psalm 55:3 Cross References

2 Samuel 15:3

Absalom would say to him, “See, your claims are good and right; but there is no man deputed by the king to hear you.”

2 Samuel 19:19

and said to the king, “Let not my lord hold me guilty or remember how your servant did wrong on the day my lord the king left Jerusalem; let not the king bear it in mind.

Psalm 12:5

“Because the poor are despoiled, because the needy groan, I will now arise,” says the Lord; “I will place him in the safety for which he longs.”

Psalm 17:9

from the wicked who despoil me, my deadly enemies who surround me.

Psalm 27:12

Give me not up to the will of my adversaries; for false witnesses have risen against me, and they breathe out violence.

Psalm 35:11

Malicious witnesses rise up; they ask me of things that I know not.

Psalm 54:3

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

Psalm 71:11

and say, “God has forsaken him; pursue and seize him, for there is none to deliver him.”

Psalm 73:8

They scoff and speak with malice; loftily they threaten oppression.

Matthew 26:59

Now the chief priests and the whole council sought false testimony against Jesus that they might put him to death,