Psalms 56:6

WEB

⁶They conspire and lurk, watching my steps. They are eager to take my life.

KJV

⁶They gather themselves together, they hide themselves, they mark my steps, when they wait for my soul.

BSB

⁶They conspire, they lurk, they watch my steps while they wait to take my life.

FBV

⁶They gather together in their hiding places to keep watch on me, hoping to kill me.

Extra References

Psalms 59:3

³For, behold, they lie in wait for my soul. The mighty gather themselves together against me, not for my disobedience, nor for my sin, LORD.

Psalms 71:10

¹⁰For my enemies talk about me. Those who watch for my soul conspire together,

Psalms 140:2

²those who devise mischief in their hearts. They continually gather themselves together for war.

¹²When it was day, some of the Jews banded together and bound themselves under a curse, saying that they would neither eat nor drink until they had killed Paul. ¹³There were more than forty people who had made this conspiracy. ¹⁴They came to the chief priests and the elders, and said, “We have bound ourselves under a great curse to taste nothing until we have killed Paul.

Luke 20:20

²⁰They watched him and sent out spies, who pretended to be righteous, that they might trap him in something he said, so as to deliver him up to the power and authority of the governor.

Matthew 26:3-4

³Then the chief priests, the scribes, and the elders of the people were gathered together in the court of the high priest, who was called Caiaphas. ⁴They took counsel together that they might take Jesus by deceit and kill him.

Daniel 6:4

⁴Then the presidents and the local governors sought to find occasion against Daniel as touching the kingdom; but they could find no occasion or fault, because he was faithful. There wasn’t any error or fault found in him.

Jeremiah 20:10

¹⁰For I have heard the defaming of many: “Terror on every side! Denounce, and we will denounce him!” say all my familiar friends, those who watch for my fall. “Perhaps he will be persuaded, and we will prevail against him, and we will take our revenge on him.”

Isaiah 54:15

¹⁵Behold, they may gather together, but not by me. Whoever gathers together against you will fall because of you.

Psalms 10:8-10

⁸He lies in wait near the villages. From ambushes, he murders the innocent. His eyes are secretly set against the helpless. ⁹He lurks in secret as a lion in his ambush. He lies in wait to catch the helpless. He catches the helpless when he draws him in his net. ¹⁰The helpless are crushed. They collapse. They fall under his strength.