Psalm 55:3 {54:4}
Good News Translation
I am terrified by the threats of my enemies, crushed by the oppression of the wicked. They bring trouble on me; they are angry with me and hate me.

New Revised Standard Version
by the noise of the enemy, because of the clamor of the wicked. For they bring trouble upon me, and in anger they cherish enmity against me.

Contemporary English Version
because my enemies attack with loud shouts. They treat me terribly and hold angry grudges.

New American Bible
at the uproar of the enemy, the clamor of the wicked. They heap trouble upon me, savagely accuse me.

Douay-Rheims Bible
At the voice of the enemy, and at the tribulation of the sinner. For they have cast iniquities upon me: and in wrath they were troublesome to me.

Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

At the voice of the enemy, and at the tribulation of the sinner. For they have cast iniquities upon me: and in wrath they were troublesome to me.

oppression

Psalm 12:5 By reason of the misery of the needy, and the groans of the poor, now will I arise, saith the Lord. I will set him in safety: I will deal confidently in his regard.

Psalm 54:3 For strangers have risen up against me; and the mighty have sought after my soul: and they have not set God before their eyes.

Psalm 73:8 They have thought and spoken wickedness: they have spoken iniquity on high.

Lamentations 3:34-36 Lamed. To crush under his feet all the prisoners of the land, . . .

for they

Psalm 27:12 Deliver me not over to the will of them that trouble me; for unjust witnesses have risen up against me; and iniquity hath lied to itself.

Psalm 35:11 Unjust witnesses rising up have asked me things I knew not.

2 Samuel 15:3 And Absalom answered him: Thy words seem to me good and just. But there is no man appointed by the king to hear thee. And Absalom said:

2 Samuel 16:7,8 And thus said Semei when he cursed the king: Come out, come out, thou man of blood, and thou man of Belial. . . .

2 Samuel 19:19 Said to him: Impute not to me, my lord, the iniquity, nor remember the injuries of thy servant on the day that thou, my lord, the king, wentest out of Jerusalem, nor lay it up in thy heart, O king.

Matthew 26:59 And the chief priests and the whole council sought false witness against Jesus, that they might put him to death.

Context
Cast Your Burden upon the LORD
2Be attentive to me and hear me. I am grieved in my exercise; and am troubled, 3At the voice of the enemy, and at the tribulation of the sinner. For they have cast iniquities upon me: and in wrath they were troublesome to me.4My heart is troubled within me: and the fear of death is fallen upon me.…
Cross References
2 Samuel 16:7
And thus said Semei when he cursed the king: Come out, come out, thou man of blood, and thou man of Belial.

2 Samuel 16:8
The Lord hath repaid thee for all the blood of the house of Saul: because thou hast usurped the kingdom in his stead, and the Lord hath given the kingdom into the hand of Absalom thy son: and behold thy evils press upon thee, because thou art a man of blood.

Job 30:15
I am brought to nothing: as a wind thou hast taken away my desire: and my prosperity hath passed away like a cloud.

Psalm 17:9
From the face of the wicked who have afflicted me. My enemies have surrounded my soul:

Psalm 71:11
Saying: God hath forsaken him: pursue and take him, for there is none to deliver him.

Psalm 143:3
For the enemy hath persecuted my soul: he hath brought down my life to the earth. He hath made me to dwell in darkness as those that have been dead of old:

Psalm 55:2
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