Psalms 31:13
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For I hear the slander of many; there is terror on every side. They conspire against me and plot to take my life.
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For I have heard the whispering of many: “Terror is on every side! Report him; let us report him!” All my trusted friends watch for my fall: “Perhaps he will be deceived so that we may prevail against him and take our vengeance upon him.”
When morning came, all the chief priests and elders of the people conspired against Jesus to put Him to death.
You summoned my attackers on every side, as for the day of an appointed feast. In the day of the LORD’s anger no one escaped or survived; my enemy has destroyed those I nurtured and reared.
Then Saul hurled his spear at Jonathan to kill him; so Jonathan knew that his father was determined to kill David.
Now the chief priests and the whole Sanhedrin were seeking false testimony against Jesus in order to put Him to death.
For I was like a gentle lamb led to slaughter; I did not know that they had plotted against me: “Let us destroy the tree with its fruit; let us cut him off from the land of the living, that his name may be remembered no more.”
Whoever slanders his neighbor in secret, I will put to silence; the one with haughty eyes and a proud heart, I will not endure.
Do not go out to the fields; do not walk the road. For the enemy has a sword; terror is on every side.
My soul is among the lions; I lie down with ravenous beasts— with men whose teeth are spears and arrows, whose tongues are sharp swords.
But they kept insisting, “He stirs up the people all over Judea with His teaching. He began in Galilee and has come all the way here.”