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New King James Version

Psalms 41:7

All who hate me whisper together against me; Against me they devise my hurt.

Bible Study Resources

Concordances:

- Nave's Topical Bible - Accusation, False;   Malice;   Slander;   Speaking;   Thompson Chain Reference - Evil;   Silence-Speech;   Speaking, Evil;   Whispering, Evil;   Torrey's Topical Textbook - Slander;  

Dictionaries:

- Baker Evangelical Dictionary of Biblical Theology - Hate, Hatred;   Hastings' Dictionary of the Bible - English Versions;   Greek Versions of Ot;   Magic, Divination, and Sorcery;   Psalms;   Sin;   The Hawker's Poor Man's Concordance And Dictionary - Bless;   People's Dictionary of the Bible - Psalms the book of;  

Parallel Translations

Christian Standard Bible®
All who hate me whisper together about me;they plan to harm me.
Hebrew Names Version
All who hate me whisper together against me. They imagine the worst for me.
King James Version
All that hate me whisper together against me: against me do they devise my hurt.
English Standard Version
All who hate me whisper together about me; they imagine the worst for me.
New Century Version
All my enemies whisper about me and think the worst about me.
New English Translation
All who hate me whisper insults about me to one another; they plan ways to harm me.
Amplified Bible
All who hate me whisper together about me; Against me they devise my hurt [imagining the worst for me], saying,
New American Standard Bible
All who hate me whisper together against me; They plot my harm against me, saying,
World English Bible
All who hate me whisper together against me. They imagine the worst for me.
Geneva Bible (1587)
All they yt hate me, whisper together against me: euen against me do they imagine mine hurt.
Legacy Standard Bible
All who hate me whisper together against me;Against me, they devise for me calamity, saying,
Berean Standard Bible
All who hate me whisper against me; they imagine the worst for me:
Contemporary English Version
My enemies whisper about me. They think the worst,
Complete Jewish Bible
When they come to see me they speak insincerely, their hearts meanwhile gathering falsehoods; then they go out and spread bad reports.
Darby Translation
All that hate me whisper together against me; against me do they devise my hurt.
Easy-to-Read Version
Those who hate me whisper about me. They think the worst about me.
George Lamsa Translation
All that hate me whisper together about me; they devise evil against me.
Good News Translation
All who hate me whisper to each other about me, they imagine the worst about me.
Lexham English Bible
All who hate me speak together against me. Against me they assume the worst for me:
Literal Translation
All those hating me whisper together against me; they plot evil against me,
Miles Coverdale Bible (1535)
All they that hate me, runne together agaynst me, and ymagin euell agaynst me.
American Standard Version
All that hate me whisper together against me; Against me do they devise my hurt.
Bible in Basic English
All my haters are talking secretly together against me; they are designing my downfall.
JPS Old Testament (1917)
And if one come to see me, he speaketh falsehood; his heart gathereth iniquity to itself; when he goeth abroad, he speaketh of it.
King James Version (1611)
All that hate me, whisper together against me; against me doe they deuise my hurt.
Bishop's Bible (1568)
All they that hated me whispered together: they imagined euyl agaynst me.
Brenton's Septuagint (LXX)
All my enemies whispered against me; against me they devised my hurt.
English Revised Version
All that hate me whisper together against me: against me do they devise my hurt.
Wycliffe Bible (1395)
He yede with out forth; and spak to the same thing. Alle myn enemyes bacbitiden pryuyli ayens me; ayens me thei thouyten yuels to me.
Update Bible Version
All that hate me whisper together against me; Against me they devise my hurt.
Webster's Bible Translation
All that hate me whisper together against me: against me do they devise my hurt.
New Living Translation
All who hate me whisper about me, imagining the worst.
New Life Bible
All who hate me speak in secret together against me. They make plans to hurt me, saying,
New Revised Standard
All who hate me whisper together about me; they imagine the worst for me.
J.B. Rotherham Emphasized Bible
Together - against me, do all who hate me whisper among themselves, Against me, devise they hurt for me.
Douay-Rheims Bible
(40-8) All my enemies whispered together against me: they devised evils to me.
Revised Standard Version
All who hate me whisper together about me; they imagine the worst for me.
Young's Literal Translation
All hating me whisper together against me, Against me they devise evil to me:
New American Standard Bible (1995)
All who hate me whisper together against me; Against me they devise my hurt, saying,

Contextual Overview

5 My enemies speak evil of me: "When will he die, and his name perish?" 6 And if he comes to see me, he speaks lies; His heart gathers iniquity to itself; When he goes out, he tells it. 7 All who hate me whisper together against me; Against me they devise my hurt. 8 "An evil disease," they say, "clings to him. And now that he lies down, he will rise up no more." 9 Even my own familiar friend in whom I trusted, Who ate my bread, Has lifted up his heel against me. 10 But You, O LORD, be merciful to me, and raise me up, That I may repay them. 11 By this I know that You are well pleased with me, Because my enemy does not triumph over me. 12 As for me, You uphold me in my integrity, And set me before Your face forever. 13 Blessed be the LORD God of Israel From everlasting to everlasting! Amen and Amen.

Bible Verse Review
  from Treasury of Scripure Knowledge

whisper: Proverbs 16:28, Proverbs 26:20, *marg. Romans 1:29, 2 Corinthians 12:20

against: Psalms 31:13, Psalms 56:5, Psalms 56:6, Matthew 22:15, Matthew 26:3, Matthew 26:4

my hurt: Heb. evil to me

Reciprocal: Psalms 71:11 - God Psalms 138:7 - Though I walk Proverbs 12:5 - counsels Luke 6:45 - and an

Cross-References

Genesis 20:3
But God came to Abimelech in a dream by night, and said to him, "Indeed you are a dead man because of the woman whom you have taken, for she is a man's wife."
Genesis 37:5
Now Joseph had a dream, and he told it to his brothers; and they hated him even more.

Gill's Notes on the Bible

All that hate me whisper together against me,.... That is, they privately conspired against him; see Matthew 22:15;

against me do they devise my hurt; not only to take away his name and credit, but his life.

Barnes' Notes on the Bible

All that hate me whisper together against me - They talk the matter over where they suppose that no one can hear; they endeavonr to collect and arrange all that can be said against me; they place all that they can say or think as individuals, all that they have separately known or suspected, into “common stock,” and make use of it against me. There is a conspiracy against me - a purpose to do me all the evil that they can. This shows that, in the apprehension of the sufferer, the one who came to see for himself Psalms 41:6 came as one of a company - as one deputed or delegated to find some new occasion for a charge against him, and that he had not to suffer under the single malignity of one, but under the combined malignity of many.

Against me do they devise my hurt - Margin, as in Hebrew: “evil to me.” That is, they devise some report, the truth of which they endeavor to confirm by something that they may observe in my sickness which will be injurious to me, and which will prove to the world that I am a bad man - a man by whose death the world would be benefited. The slanderous report on which they seemed to agree is mentioned in the following verse - that he was suffering under a disease which was directly and manifestly the result of a sinful life, and that it must be fatal.

Clarke's Notes on the Bible

Verse Psalms 41:7. All that hate me whisper together against me — This is in consequence of the information given by the hypocritical friend, who came to him with the lying tongue, and whose heart gathereth iniquity to itself, which, when he went abroad, he told to others as ill-minded as himself, and they also drew their wicked inferences.


 
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