Psalm 59:3 {58:4}
Good News Translation
Look! They are waiting to kill me; cruel people are gathering against me. It is not because of any sin or wrong I have done,

New Revised Standard Version
Even now they lie in wait for my life; the mighty stir up strife against me. For no transgression or sin of mine, O LORD,

Contemporary English Version
Merciless enemies, LORD, are hiding and plotting, hoping to kill me. I have not hurt them in any way at all.

New American Bible
They have set an ambush for my life; the powerful conspire against me. For no offense or misdeed of mine, LORD,

Douay-Rheims Bible
For behold they have caught my soul: the mighty have rushed in upon me:

Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

For behold they have caught my soul: the mighty have rushed in upon me:

they

Psalm 10:9,10 His eyes are upon the poor man: He lieth in wait in secret like a lion in his den. He lieth in ambush that he may catch the poor man: to catch the poor, whilst he draweth him to him. . . .

Psalm 37:32,33 The wicked watcheth the just man, and seeketh to put him to death, . . .

Psalm 38:12 And they that sought my soul used violence. And they that sought evils to me spoke vain things, and studied deceits all the day long.

Psalm 56:6 They will dwell and hide themselves: they will watch my heel. As they have waited for my soul,

1 Samuel 19:1 And Saul spoke to Jonathan, his son, and to all his servants, that they should kill David. But Jonathan, the son of Saul, loved David exceedingly.

Proverbs 12:6 Turn the wicked, and they shall not be: but the house of the just shall stand firm.

Micah 7:2 The holy man is perished out of the earth, and there is none upright among men: they all lie in wait for blood, every one hunteth his brother to death.

Acts 23:21 But do not thou give credit to them: for there lie in wait for him more than forty men of them, who have bound themselves by oath neither to eat nor to drink, till they have killed him. And they are now ready, looking for a promise from thee.

the mighty

Psalm 2:2 The kings of the earth stood up, and the princes met together, against the Lord, and against his Christ.

Acts 4:26,27 The kings of the earth stood up: and the princes assembled together against the Lord and his Christ. . . .

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Psalm 7:3-6 O Lord, my God, if I have done this thing, if there be iniquity in my hands: . . .

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.

1 Samuel 24:11,17 Moreover, see and know, O my father, the hem of thy robe in my hand, that when I cut off the hem of thy robe, I would not put out my hand against thee. Reflect, and see, that there is no evil in my hand, nor iniquity, neither have I sinned against thee: but thou liest in wait for my life, to take it away. . . .

1 Samuel 26:18 And he said: Wherefore doth my lord persecute his servant? What have I done? or what evil is there in my hand?

John 15:25 But that the word may be fulfilled which is written in their law: they hated me without cause.

Context
Deliver Me From My Enemies
2Deliver me from them that work iniquity, and save me from bloody men. 3For behold they have caught my soul: the mighty have rushed in upon me:4Neither is it my iniquity, nor my sin, O Lord: without iniquity have I run, and directed my steps.…
Cross References
1 Samuel 24:11
Moreover, see and know, O my father, the hem of thy robe in my hand, that when I cut off the hem of thy robe, I would not put out my hand against thee. Reflect, and see, that there is no evil in my hand, nor iniquity, neither have I sinned against thee: but thou liest in wait for my life, to take it away.

Psalm 7:3
O Lord, my God, if I have done this thing, if there be iniquity in my hands:

Psalm 7:4
If I have rendered to them that repaid me evils, let me deservedly fall empty before my enemies.

Psalm 10:9
His eyes are upon the poor man: He lieth in wait in secret like a lion in his den. He lieth in ambush that he may catch the poor man: to catch the poor, whilst he draweth him to him.

Psalm 56:6
They will dwell and hide themselves: they will watch my heel. As they have waited for my soul,

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 94:21
They will hunt after the soul of the just, and will condemn innocent blood.

Daniel 6:7
All the princes of the kingdom, the magistrates, and governors, the senators, and judges, have consulted together, that an imperial decree, and an edict be published: That whosoever shall ask any petition of any god, or man, for thirty days, but of thee, O king, shall be cast into the den of the lions.

Psalm 59:2
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