Psalm 37:32 - Revised Version with Apocrypha 1895

³² The wicked watcheth the righteous, And seeketh 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

And 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 fetch him. And it was told him, saying, Behold, he is in Dothan.

Psalm 37:12

The wicked plotteth against the just, And gnasheth upon him with his teeth.

Psalm 56:7

Shall they escape by iniquity? In anger cast down the peoples, O God.

Proverbs 24:15

Lay not wait, O wicked man, against the habitation of the righteous; Spoil not his resting place:

Jeremiah 11:19

But I was like a gentle lamb that is led to the slaughter; and I knew not that they had devised devices against me, saying, Let us destroy the tree with the fruit thereof, and let us cut him off from the land of the living, that his name may be no more remembered.

Jeremiah 18:23

Yet, LORD, thou knowest all their counsel against me to slay me; forgive not their iniquity, neither blot out their sin from thy sight: but let them be overthrown before thee; deal thou with them in the time of thine anger.

Jeremiah 20:10

For I have heard the defaming of many, terror on every side. Denounce, and we will denounce him, say all my familiar friends, they that watch for my halting; peradventure he will be enticed, and we shall prevail against him, and we shall take our revenge on him.

Daniel 6:5

Then said these men, We shall not find any occasion against this Daniel, except we find it against him concerning the law of his God.

Luke 11:54

laying wait for him, to catch something out of his mouth.

Luke 14:1

And it came to pass, when he went into the house of one of the rulers of the Pharisees on a sabbath to eat bread, that they were watching him.

Luke 20:20

And they watched him, and sent forth spies, which feigned themselves to be righteous, that they might take hold of his speech, so as to deliver him up to the rule and to the authority of the governor.

Luke 6:7

And the scribes and the Pharisees watched him, whether he would heal on the sabbath; that they might find how to accuse him.

Acts 9:24

but their plot became known to Saul. And they watched the gates also day and night that they might kill him:

1 Samuel 19:10

And Saul sought to smite David even to the wall with the spear; but he slipped away out of Saul's presence, and he smote the spear into the wall: and David fled, and escaped that night.

1 Samuel 23:14

And David abode in the wilderness in the strong holds, and remained in the hill country in the wilderness of Ziph. And Saul sought him every day, but God delivered him not into his hand.