Psalms 69:4

WEB

⁴Those who hate me without a cause are more than the hairs of my head. Those who want to cut me off, being my enemies wrongfully, are mighty. I have to restore what I didn’t take away.

KJV

⁴They that hate me without a cause are more than the hairs of mine head: they that would destroy me, being mine enemies wrongfully, are mighty: then I restored that which I took not away.

BSB

⁴Those who hate me without cause outnumber the hairs of my head; many are those who would destroy me— my enemies for no reason.Though ^[+] I did not steal, I must repay.

FBV

⁴Those who hate me for no reason are more than the number of hairs on my head. Many enemies try to destroy me by telling lies. How can I give back what I didn't steal?

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Extra References

John 15:25

²⁵But this happened so that the word may be fulfilled which was written in their law, ‘They hated me without a cause.’

Psalms 35:19

¹⁹Don’t let those who are my enemies wrongfully rejoice over me; neither let those who hate me without a cause wink their eyes.

³They have also surrounded me with words of hatred, and fought against me without a cause. ⁴In return for my love, they are my adversaries; but I am in prayer. ⁵They have rewarded me evil for good, and hatred for my love.

Psalms 35:11-12

¹¹Unrighteous witnesses rise up. They ask me about things that I don’t know about. ¹²They reward me evil for good, to the bereaving of my soul.

2 Corinthians 5:21

²¹For him who knew no sin he made to be sin on our behalf, so that in him we might become the righteousness of God.

Isaiah 53:4-7

⁴Surely he has borne our sickness and carried our suffering; yet we considered him plagued, struck by God, and afflicted. ⁵But he was pierced for our transgressions. He was crushed for our iniquities. The punishment that brought our peace was on him; and by his wounds we are healed. ⁶All we like sheep have gone astray. Everyone has turned to his own way; and the LORD has laid on him the iniquity of us all. ⁷He was oppressed, yet when he was afflicted he didn’t open his mouth. As a lamb that is led to the slaughter, and as a sheep that before its shearers is silent, so he didn’t open his mouth.

Psalms 38:19-20

¹⁹But my enemies are vigorous and many. Those who hate me without reason are numerous. ²⁰They who give evil for good are also adversaries to me, because I follow what is good.

Psalms 7:3-5

³LORD, my God, if I have done this, if there is iniquity in my hands, ⁴if I have rewarded evil to him who was at peace with me (yes, I have plundered him who without cause was my adversary), ⁵let the enemy pursue my soul, and overtake it; yes, let him tread my life down to the earth, and lay my glory in the dust. Selah.

Psalms 40:12

¹²For innumerable evils have surrounded me. My iniquities have overtaken me, so that I am not able to look up. They are more than the hairs of my head. My heart has failed me.

1 Peter 3:18

¹⁸Because Christ also suffered for sins once, the righteous for the unrighteous, that he might bring you to God, being put to death in the flesh, but made alive in the Spirit,