All who hate me whisper together against me. They imagine the worst for me.
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All who hate me whisper together against me. They imagine the worst for me.
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All that hate me whisper together against me: against me do they devise my hurt.
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(41-8) All that hate me whisper together against me, against me do they devise my hurt:
Cross-references (8)
Passages linked to Psalms 41:7 in the Treasury of Scripture Knowledge, ordered by reader-vote popularity; verse text shown in World English Bible.
- Proverbs 16:28 A perverse man stirs up strife. A whisperer separates close friends.
- Psalms 56:5-6 All day long they twist my words. All their thoughts are against me for evil. They conspire and lurk, watching my steps. They are eager to take my life.
- Matthew 22:15 Then the Pharisees went and took counsel how they might entrap him in his talk.
- Matthew 26:3-4 Then the chief priests, the scribes, and the elders of the people were gathered together in the court of the high priest, who was called Caiaphas. They took counsel together that they might take Jesus by deceit, and kill him.
- Psalms 31:13 For I have heard the slander of many, terror on every side, while they conspire together against me, they plot to take away my life.
- Proverbs 26:20 For lack of wood a fire goes out. Without gossip, a quarrel dies down.
- Romans 1:29 being filled with all unrighteousness, sexual immorality, wickedness, covetousness, malice; full of envy, murder, strife, deceit, evil habits, secret slanderers,
- 2 Corinthians 12:20 For I am afraid that by any means, when I come, I might find you not the way I want to, and that I might be found by you as you don’t desire, that by any means there would be strife, jealousy, outbursts of anger, factions, slander, whisperings, proud thoughts, or riots,
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John Calvin 1540 · Public Domain 7. All they that hate me whisper together against…
7. All they that hate me whisper together against me. Here he seems generally to include both classes of his enemies; those who sought to oppress him in an open manner, and in the character of avowed enemies; and those who, under the pretense of friendship, attempted to do the same thing by deceit and stratagem. Accordingly, he says that all of them took counsel together about his destruction, just as we know that wicked men hold much secret consultation respecting their intended deeds of treachery, and whisper to one another concerning them. Hence he adds the words to meditate, or plot, which he employs to denote their base conspiracies and sinful consultations.
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John Trapp 1656 · Public Domain Psa 41:7 All that hate me whisper together against…
Psa 41:7 All that hate me whisper together against me: against me do they devise my hurt.
Ver. 7. All that hate me, whisper together against me] Heb. Mussitant, they mutter, as charmers use to do. These whisperers are dangerous fellows, Rom 1:29, like the wind that creepeth in by chinks in a wall or cracks in a window. A vento percolato, et iuimico reconciliato, libera nos, Domine, saith the Italian.
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Against me do they devise] Cogitant quasi coagitant.
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Matthew Poole 1685 · Public Domain Whisper together against me, i.e. secretly defame me, and…
Whisper together against me, i.e. secretly defame me, and closely plot against me.
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John Gill 1763 · Public Domain All that hate me whisper together against me,.... That…
All that hate me whisper together against me,.... That is, they privately conspired against him; see Mat 22:15;
against me do they devise my hurt; not only to take away his name and credit, but his life.
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Adam Clarke 1810 · Public Domain Verse 7. All that hate me whisper together against…
Verse 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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Albert Barnes 1834 · Public Domain All that hate me whisper together against me -…
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 Psa 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.
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Robert Jamieson, A. R. Fausset & David Brown 1871 · Public Domain So of others, all act alike.
So of others, all act alike.
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Daniel D. Whedon 1874 · Public Domain 7. Whisper together—The conspiracy was conducted with the utmost…
7. Whisper together—The conspiracy was conducted with the utmost privacy.
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The Cambridge Bible for Schools and Colleges 1878 · Public Domain 7. The scene outside the house is graphically depicted.…
7. The scene outside the house is graphically depicted. We see the associates waiting, eager for news. With a transparent pretence of secrecy they whisper together, and divert themselves with anticipating the worst.
do they devise my hurt] Or, imagine evil for me, indulging in uncharitable speculations as to the cause of his illness (cp. Job_22:5 ff.), and hoping for a fatal issue of it. The next verse is a summary of their malevolent conversation.
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The Pulpit Commentary 1880 · Public Domain All that hate me whisper together against me; i.e.…
All that hate me whisper together against me; i.e. gather themselves into knots, and hold whispered conversations about me as conspirators are apt to do. Against me do they devise my hurt; literally, hurt to me.
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Charles H. Spurgeon 1885 · Public Domain Ver. 7. All that hate me whisper together against…
Ver. 7. All that hate me whisper together against me. The spy meets his comrades in conclave and sets them all a whispering. Why could they not speak out? Were they afraid of the sick warrior? Or were their designs so treacherous that they must needs be hatched in secrecy? Mark the unanimity of the wickedall. How heartily the dogs unite to hunt the stag! Would God we were half as united in holy labour as persecutors in their malicious projects, and were half as wise as they are crafty, for their whispering was craft as well as cowardice, the conspiracy must not be known till all is ready. Against me do they devise my hurt. They lay their heads together, and scheme and plot. So did Ahithophel and the rest of Absalom's counsellors, so also did the chief priests and Pharisees. Evil men are good at devising; they are given to meditation, they are deep thinkers, but the mark they aim at is evermore the hurt of the faithful. Snakes in the grass are never there for a good end.
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Ver. 7-12. On a sick bed a man discovers not only his enemies and his friends, but himself and his God, more intimately.
Psalms 41:8*
Ver. 7-12. On a sick bed a man discovers not only his enemies and his friends, but himself and his God, more intimately.
Psalms 41:9*
Ver. 7-12. On a sick bed a man discovers not only his enemies and his friends, but himself and his God, more intimately.
Ver. 7-12. On a sick bed a man discovers not only his enemies and his friends, but himself and his God, more intimately.
Psalms 41:11*
Ver. 7-12. On a sick bed a man discovers not only his enemies and his friends, but himself and his God, more intimately.
Ver. 7-12. On a sick bed a man discovers not only his enemies and his friends, but himself and his God, more intimately.
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unfoldingWord translationNotes 2017 · CC BY-SA 4.0 against me they hope for my hurt
against me they hope for my hurt
Possible meanings are 1) "they hope that very bad things will happen to me" or 2) "they are planning to hurt me."
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An evil disease ... to him
His enemies speak of "disease" as if it were a person who has captured him. AT: "He is sick with a fatal disease" (See: Personification and Metaphor)
An evil disease
Possible meanings are 1) "A fatal disease" or 2) "Something evil"
now that he is lying down, he will rise up no more
Here the words "lying down" refer to lying in bed because of illness. That he will not "rise up" means that he will continue to lie down, which is a euphemism for death. AT: "now that he is sick in bed, he will die there" (See: Assumed Knowledge and Implicit Information and Euphemism)
has lifted up his heel against me
This is an idiom that means his friend betrayed him. AT: "has betrayed me" or "has turned against me" (See: Idiom)
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hope
evil
raise
trust
bread
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