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Psalms 41:7
7All who hate me whisper together about me; Against me they devise my hurt [imagining the worst for me], saying,
Psalms 41:7 in other versions
- King James Version (KJV)All that hate me whisper together against me: against me do they devise my hurt.
- New International Version (NIV)All my enemies whisper together against me; they imagine the worst for me, saying,
- English Standard Version (ESV)All who hate me whisper together about me; they imagine the worst for me.
- New King James Version (NKJV)All who hate me whisper together against me; Against me they devise my hurt.
Context of Psalms 41:7
5My enemies speak evil of me, saying, “When will he die and his name perish?” 6And when one comes to see me, he speaks empty words, While his heart gathers malicious gossip [against me]; When he goes away, he tells it [everywhere]. All who hate me whisper together about me; Against me they devise my hurt [imagining the worst for me], saying, 8“A wicked thing is poured out upon him and holds him; And when he lies down, he will not rise up again.” 9Even my own close friend in whom I trusted, Who ate my bread, Has lifted up his heel against me [betraying me].
Read all of Psalms 41Psalms 41:7 word by word
יַ֗חַד עָלַ֣י יִ֭תְלַחֲשׁוּ כָּל־שֹׂנְאָ֑י עָלַ֓י׀ יַחְשְׁב֖וּ רָעָ֣ה לִֽי׃Read the interlinear
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Cross-references for Psalms 41:7
- Proverbs 16:28A perverse man spreads strife, And one who gossips separates intimate friends.
- Proverbs 26:20For lack of wood the fire goes out, And where there is no whisperer [who gossips], contention quiets down.
- Romans 1:29until they were filled (permeated, saturated) with every kind of unrighteousness, wickedness, greed, evil; full of envy, murder, strife, deceit, malice and mean-spiritedness. They are gossips [spreading rumors],
- 2 Corinthians 12:20For I am afraid that perhaps when I come I may find you not to be as I wish, and that you may find me not as you wish—that perhaps there may be strife, jealousy, angry tempers, disputes, slander, gossip, arrogance and disorder;
- Psalms 31:13For I have heard the slander and whispering of many, Terror is on every side; While they schemed together against me, They plotted to take away my life.
- Psalms 56:5All day long they twist my words and say hurtful things; All their thoughts are against me for evil.
- Matthew 22:15Then the Pharisees went and conspired together plotting how to trap Him by [distorting] what He said.
- Matthew 26:3Then the chief priests and the elders of the people gathered in the courtyard of the [elegant home of the Jewish] high priest, whose name was Caiaphas,
Commentaries on Psalms 41:7
- Adam Clarke Bible Commentary · v. 7All 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 illminded as himself, and they also drew their wicked inferences.Read the comment
- Barnes’ Notes on the Bible · v. 7All 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…Read the comment
- Matthew Henry Concise Commentary · v. 5-13Verses 5-13 We complain, and justly, of the want of sincerity, and that there is scarcely any true friendship to be found among men; but the former days were no better. One particularly, in whom David had reposed great confidence, took part with his enemies. And let us not think it strange, if we receive evil from those we suppose to be friends. Have not we ourselves thus broken our words toward God? We eat of his bread daily, yet lift up the heel against…Read the comment
- Tyndale Open Study Notes · v. 5-9The psalmist’s enemies disguise themselves as friends, while his friends openly become his enemies.Read the comment
- Jamieson–Fausset–Brown Commentary · v. 7-87-8. So of others, all act alike.Read the comment
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Commentaries on Psalms 41
- Adam Clarke Bible Commentary
- Barnes’ Notes on the Bible
- Matthew Henry Concise Commentary
- Tyndale Open Study Notes
- Jamieson–Fausset–Brown Commentary
- Rashi on Tanakh
- Calvin’s Commentaries
- Keil & Delitzsch Commentary
- John Wesley’s Notes
- The Treasury of David
- Darby Translation Notes
- Geneva Bible Translation Notes
- Kingcomments
- Matthew Henry’s Complete Commentary
- Matthew Henry’s Modern English Commentary
- Scofield Reference Notes, 1917 Edition
- Seventh-day Adventist Bible Commentary
- EGW Writings
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