Psalm 54:3 - The Scriptures 2009

³ For strangers have risen up against me, And cruel men have sought after my life; They have not set Elohim before them. Selah.

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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 have set יהוה always before me; Because He is at my right hand I am not shaken.

Psalm 20:2

He does send you help from the set-apart place, And does uphold you from Tsiyon!

Psalm 22:16

For dogs have surrounded Me; A crowd of evil ones have encircled Me, Piercing My hands and My feet;

Psalm 36:1

Transgression speaks to the wrong within his heart; Fear of Elohim is not before his eyes.

Psalm 40:14

Let those who seek to destroy my life Be ashamed and abashed altogether; Let those who are desiring my evil Be driven back and put to shame.

Psalm 43:1

Rule me rightly, O Elohim, And plead my cause against a nation without loving-commitment. Oh, deliver me from a man of deceit and unrighteousness!

Psalm 53:4

Have the workers of wickedness no knowledge, Who eat up my people as they eat bread, And do not call on Elohim?

Psalm 69:8

I have become a stranger to my brothers, And a foreigner to my mother’s children;

Psalm 86:14

O Elohim, the proud have risen against me, And a band of dreaded men have sought my life, And have not set You before them.

John 16:3

“And this they shall do to you because they did not know the Father, nor Me.