Psalms 140:4
O Lord, take me out of the hands of sinners; keep me safe from the violent man: for they are designing my downfall.
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Psalms 140:4
O Lord, take me out of the hands of sinners; keep me safe from the violent man: for they are designing my downfall.
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Psalms 140:1
To the chief music-maker. A Psalm. Of David. O Lord, take me out of the power of the evil man; keep me safe from the violent man:
Psalms 140:2
For their hearts are full of evil designs; and they are ever making ready causes of war.
Psalms 140:3
Their tongues are sharp like the tongue of a snake; the poison of snakes is under their lips. (Selah.)
Psalms 140:4
O Lord, take me out of the hands of sinners; keep me safe from the violent man: for they are designing my downfall.
Psalms 140:5
The men of pride have put secret cords for my feet; stretching nets in my way, so that they may take me with their tricks. (Selah.)
Psalms 38:12
Those who have a desire to take my life put nets for me; those who are designing my destruction say evil things against me, all the day their minds are full of deceit.
Psalms 52:2
Purposing destruction, using deceit; your tongue is like a sharp blade.
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Psalms 71:4
O my God, take me out of the hand of the sinner, out of the hand of the evil and cruel man.
Psalms 17:8
Keep me as the light of your eyes, covering me with the shade of your wings,
Psalms 17:9
From the evil-doers who are violent to me, and from those who are round me, desiring my death.
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Psalms 140:11
Let not a man of evil tongue be safe on earth: let destruction overtake the violent man with blow on blow.
Psalms 140:6
I have said to the Lord, You are my God: give ear, O Lord, to the voice of my prayer.
Psalms 140:7
O Lord God, the strength of my salvation, you have been a cover over my head in the day of the fight.
Psalms 140:8
O Lord, give not the wrongdoer his desire; give him no help in his evil designs, or he may be uplifted in pride. (Selah.)
Psalms 140:9
As for those who come round me, let their heads be covered by the evil of their lips.
Psalms 118:13
I have been hard pushed by you, so that I might have a fall: but the Lord was my helper.
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Psalms 18:48
He makes me free from my haters; I am lifted up over those who come up against me: you have made me free from the violent man.
Psalms 86:14
O God, men of pride have come up against me, and the army of violent men would take my life; they have not put you before them.
2 Samuel 22:49
He makes me free from my haters: I am lifted up over those who come up against me: you have made me free from the violent man.
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Psalms 64:3
Who make their tongues sharp like a sword, and whose arrows are pointed, even bitter words;
Psalms 64:4
So that in secret they may let loose their arrows at the upright, suddenly and unseen.
Psalms 64:5
They make themselves strong in an evil purpose; they make holes for secret nets; they say, Who will see it,
Psalms 64:6
Or make discovery of our secret purpose? The design is framed with care; and the inner thought of a man, and his heart, is deep.
Psalms 37:32
The sinners are watching the upright man, desiring to put him to death.
Psalms 37:33
The Lord will not give him into their hands, or be against him when he is judged.
Jeremiah 11:19
But I was like a gentle lamb taken to be put to death; I had no thought that they were designing evil against me, saying, Come and let us make trouble his food, cutting him off from the land of the living, so that there may be no more memory of his name.
Jeremiah 18:18
Then they said, Come, let us make a design against Jeremiah; for teaching will never be cut off from the priest, or wisdom from the wise, or the word from the prophet. Come, let us make use of his words for an attack on him, and let us give attention with care to what he says.
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Acts 23:12
And when it was day, the Jews came together and put themselves under an oath that they would take no food or drink till they had put Paul to death.
Acts 23:13
And more than forty of them took this oath.
Acts 23:14
And they came to the chief priests and the rulers and said, We have taken a great oath to take no food till we have put Paul to death
Acts 23:15
So now, will you and the Sanhedrin make a request to the military authorities to have him sent down to you, as if you were desiring to go into the business in greater detail; and we, before ever he gets to you, will be waiting to put him to death.
Acts 25:3
Requesting Festus to give effect to their design against him, and send him to Jerusalem, when they would be waiting to put him to death on the way.
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