Psalm 59:3 - Revised Version with Apocrypha 1895

³ For, lo, they lie in wait for my soul; The mighty gather themselves together against me: Not for my transgression, nor for my sin, O LORD.

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King James Version (Oxford) 1769

³ For, lo, they lie in wait for my soul: The mighty are gathered against me; Not for my transgression, nor for my sin, O LORD.

Amplified Bible - Classic Edition

³ For, behold, they lie in wait for my life; fierce and mighty men are banding together against me, not for my transgression nor for any sin of mine, O Lord.

American Standard Version (1901)

³ For, lo, they lie in wait for my soul; The mighty gather themselves together against me: Not for my transgression, nor for my sin, O Jehovah.

Common English Bible

³ Look at how they lie in ambush for my life! Powerful people are attacking me, LORD— but not because of any error or sin of mine.

Catholic Public Domain Version

³ O God, you have rejected us, and you have ruined us. You became angry, and yet you have been merciful to us.

Douay-Rheims version of The Bible - 1752 version

³ O God, thou hast cast us off, and hast destroyed us; thou hast been angry, and hast had mercy on us.

Psalm 59:3 Cross References

Psalm 140:2

Which imagine mischiefs in their heart; Continually do they gather themselves together for war.

Psalm 2:2

The kings of the earth set themselves, And the rulers take counsel together, Against the LORD, and against his anointed, saying,

Psalm 38:12

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.

Psalm 56:6

They gather themselves together, they hide themselves, They mark my steps, Even as they have waited for my soul.

Psalm 69:4

They that hate me without a cause are more than the hairs of mine head: They that would cut me off, being mine enemies wrongfully, are mighty: Then I restored that which I took not away.

Proverbs 12:6

The words of the wicked are of lying in wait for blood: But the mouth of the upright shall deliver them.

Proverbs 24:15

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

Micah 7:2

The godly man is perished out of the earth, and there is none upright among men: they all lie in wait for blood; they hunt every man his brother with a net.

John 15:25

But this cometh to pass, that the word may be fulfilled that is written in their law, They hated me without a cause.

Acts 23:21

Do not thou therefore yield unto them: for there lie in wait for him of them more than forty men, which have bound themselves under a curse, neither to eat nor to drink till they have slain him: and now are they ready, looking for the promise from thee.

1 Samuel 19:1

And Saul spake to Jonathan his son, and to all his servants, that they should slay David. But Jonathan Saul's son delighted much in David.

1 Samuel 24:11

Moreover, my father, see, yea, see the skirt of thy robe in my hand: for in that I cut off the skirt of thy robe, and killed thee not, know thou and see that there is neither evil nor transgression in mine hand, and I have not sinned against thee, though thou huntest after my soul to take it.

1 Samuel 24:17

And he said to David, Thou art more righteous than I: for thou hast rendered unto me good, whereas I have rendered unto thee evil.

1 Samuel 26:18

And he said, Wherefore doth my lord pursue after his servant? for what have I done? or what evil is in mine hand?