12 Those who seek my life (A)lay their snares;
    those who seek my hurt (B)speak of ruin
    and meditate (C)treachery all day long.

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12 Those who want to kill me set their traps,(A)
    those who would harm me talk of my ruin;(B)
    all day long they scheme and lie.(C)

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12 They also that seek after my life lay snares for me: and they that seek my hurt speak mischievous things, and imagine deceits all the day long.

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My enemies say of me in malice,
    “When will he die, and his name perish?”
And when one comes to see me, (A)he utters empty words,
    while his heart gathers iniquity;
    when he goes out, he tells it abroad.
All who hate me whisper together about me;
    they imagine the worst for me.[a]

They say, “A deadly thing is poured out[b] on him;
    he will not rise again from where he lies.”

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Footnotes

  1. Psalm 41:7 Or they devise evil against me
  2. Psalm 41:8 Or has fastened

My enemies say of me in malice,
    “When will he die and his name perish?(A)
When one of them comes to see me,
    he speaks falsely,(B) while his heart gathers slander;(C)
    then he goes out and spreads(D) it around.

All my enemies whisper together(E) against me;
    they imagine the worst for me, saying,
“A vile disease has afflicted him;
    he will never get up(F) from the place where he lies.”

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Mine enemies speak evil of me, When shall he die, and his name perish?

And if he come to see me, he speaketh vanity: his heart gathereth iniquity to itself; when he goeth abroad, he telleth it.

All that hate me whisper together against me: against me do they devise my hurt.

An evil disease, say they, cleaveth fast unto him: and now that he lieth he shall rise up no more.

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