Psalm 3:1
Good News Translation
I have so many enemies, LORD, so many who turn against me!

New Revised Standard Version
O LORD, how many are my foes! Many are rising against me;

Contemporary English Version
I have a lot of enemies, LORD. Many fight against

New American Bible
A psalm of David, when he fled from his son Absalom. [2] How many are my foes, LORD! How many rise against me!

Douay-Rheims Bible
The psalm of David when he fled from the face of his son Absalom. [2] Why, O Lord, are they multiplied that afflict me? many are they who rise up against me.

Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

The psalm of David when he fled from the face of his son Absalom. [2] Why, O Lord, are they multiplied that afflict me? many are they who rise up against me.

when

2 Samuel 15:1-18:33 Now after these things Absalom made himself chariots, and horsemen, and fifty men to run before him. . . .

how

2 Samuel 15:12 Absalom also sent for Achitophel the Gilonite, David's counsellor, from his city Gilo. And while he was offering sacrifices, there was a strong conspiracy, and the people running together increased with Absalom.

2 Samuel 16:15 But Absalom and all his people came into Jerusalem, and Achitophel was with him.

2 Samuel 17:11-13 But this seemeth to me to be good counsel: Let all Israel be gathered to thee, from Dan to Bersabee, as the sand of the sea which cannot be numbered: and thou shalt be in the midst of them. . . .

Matthew 27:25 And the whole people answering, said: His blood be upon us and upon our children.

many

Psalm 17:7 Shew forth thy wonderful mercies; thou who savest them that trust in thee.

Matthew 10:21 The brother also shall deliver up the brother to death, and the father the son; and the children shall rise up against their parents, and shall put them to death.

Context
Deliver Me, O LORD!
1The psalm of David when he fled from the face of his son Absalom. [2] Why, O Lord, are they multiplied that afflict me? many are they who rise up against me.2Many say to my soul: There is no salvation for him in his God.…
Cross References
2 Samuel 15:12
Absalom also sent for Achitophel the Gilonite, David's counsellor, from his city Gilo. And while he was offering sacrifices, there was a strong conspiracy, and the people running together increased with Absalom.

2 Samuel 15:13
And there came a messenger to David, saying: All Israel with their whole heart followeth Absalom.

2 Samuel 15:14
And David said to his servants, that were with him in Jerusalem: Arise and let us flee: for we shall not escape else from the face of Absalom: make haste to go out, lest he come and overtake us, and bring ruin upon us, and smite the city with the edge of the sword.

Psalm 25:19
Consider my enemies for they are multiplied, and have hated me with an unjust hatred.

Psalm 69:4
They are multiplied above the hairs of my head, who hate me without cause. My enemies are grown strong who have wrongfully persecuted me: then did I pay that which I took not away.

Psalm 2:12
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