Psalm 27:12

New International Reader's Version

My enemies want to harm me. So don’t turn me over to them. Witnesses who tell lies are rising up against me. They say all sorts of evil things about me.

Cross References

Psalm 140:8

Lord, don’t give sinners what they want. Don’t let their plans succeed.

Psalm 25:19

Look at how many enemies I have! See how terrible their hatred is for me!

Psalm 31:8

You have not handed me over to the enemy. You have put me in a wide and safe place.

Psalm 35:11

Mean people come forward to speak against me. They ask me things I don’t know anything about.

Psalm 35:25

Don’t let them think, “That’s exactly what we wanted!” Don’t let them say, “We have swallowed him up.”

Psalm 38:16

I said, “Don’t let my enemies have the joy of seeing me fall. Don’t let them brag when my feet slip.”

Psalm 41:11

Then I will know that you are pleased with me, because my enemies haven’t won the battle over me.

Psalm 41:2

The Lord guards them and keeps them alive. They are counted among those who are blessed in the land. The Lord won’t hand them over to the wishes of their enemies.

Exodus 20:16

“Do not be a false witness against your neighbor.

Acts 26:11

I often went from one synagogue to another to have them punished. I tried to force them to speak evil things against Jesus. All I wanted to do was hurt them. I even went looking for them in the cities of other lands.

Acts 9:1

Meanwhile, Saul continued to oppose the Lord’s followers. He said they would be put to death. He went to the high priest.

Deuteronomy 19:16

Suppose a witness who tells lies goes to court and brings charges against someone. The witness says someone committed a crime.

1 Samuel 26:19

King Saul, please listen to what I’m saying. Was it the Lord who made you angry with me? If it was, may he accept my offering. Was it people who made you angry at me? If it was, may the Lord see them cursed. They have driven me today from my share of the Lord’s land. By doing that, they might as well have said, ‘Go and serve other gods.’