Psalm 37:32

New Revised Standard Version Updated Edition 2021

The wicked watch for the righteous and seek to kill them.

Cross References

Genesis 39:16

Then she kept his garment by her until his master came home,

2 Kings 6:13

He said, “Go and find where he is; I will send and seize him.” He was told, “He is in Dothan.”

Psalm 37:12

The wicked plot against the righteous and gnash their teeth at them,

Psalm 56:7

Do not deliver them for any reason; in wrath cast down the peoples, O God!

Proverbs 24:15

Do not lie in wait like an outlaw against the home of the righteous; do no violence to the place where the righteous live;

Jeremiah 11:19

But I was like a gentle lamb led to the slaughter. And I did not know it was against me that they devised schemes, saying, “Let us destroy the tree with its fruit; let us cut him off from the land of the living, so that his name will no longer be remembered!”

Jeremiah 18:23

Yet you, O Lord, know all their plotting to kill me. Do not forgive their iniquity; do not blot out their sin from your sight. Let them be tripped up before you; deal with them while you are angry.

Jeremiah 20:10

For I hear many whispering: “Terror is all around! Denounce him! Let us denounce him!” All my close friends are watching for me to stumble. “Perhaps he can be enticed, and we can prevail against him and take our revenge on him.”

Daniel 6:5

The men said, “We shall not find any ground for complaint against this Daniel unless we find it in connection with the law of his God.”

Luke 11:54

lying in wait for him, to catch him in something he might say.

Luke 14:1

On one occasion when Jesus was going to the house of a leader of the Pharisees to eat a meal on the Sabbath, they were watching him closely.

Luke 20:20

So they watched him and sent spies who pretended to be honest, in order to trap him by what he said and then to hand him over to the jurisdiction and authority of the governor.

Luke 6:7

The scribes and the Pharisees were watching him to see whether he would cure on the Sabbath, so that they might find grounds to bring an accusation against him.

Acts 9:24

but their plot became known to Saul. They were watching the gates day and night so that they might kill him,

1 Samuel 19:10

Saul sought to pin David to the wall with the spear, but he eluded Saul, so that he struck the spear into the wall. David fled and escaped that night.

1 Samuel 23:14

David remained in the strongholds in the wilderness, in the hill country of the wilderness of Ziph. Saul sought him every day, but the Lord did not give him into his hand.