Psalms 38:19
But my enemies are energetic, [and] are strong, and those who hate me wrongfully are multiplied.
A Conservative Version
In The King James Version
But mine enemies are lively, and they are strong: and they that hate me wrongfully are multiplied.
In Context
18For I will declare my iniquity. I will be sorry for my sin.
20They also who render evil for good are adversaries to me, because I follow the thing that is good.
Cross References
Psalms 18:17He delivered me from my strong enemy, and from those who hated me, for they were too mighty for me.
Psalms 32:5I acknowledged my sin to thee, and I did not hide my iniquity. I said, I will confess my transgressions to LORD, and thou forgave the iniquity of my sin. Selah.
Psalms 56:1Be merciful to me, O God, for man would swallow me up. Fighting all the day long he oppresses me.
Psalms 69:4Those who hate me without a cause are more than the hairs of my head. Those who would cut me off, being my enemies wrongfully, are mighty. That which I took not away I have to restore.
John 15:18If the world hates you, know that it has hated me before you.
Matthew Henry on Psalms 38:13-22
Sorrowful Complaints. 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. 13 But I, as a deaf man, heard not; and I was as a dumb man that openeth not his mouth. 14 Thus I was as a man that heareth not, and in whose mouth are no reproofs. 15 For in thee, O Lord , do I hope: thou wilt hear, O Lord my God. 16 For I said, Hear me, lest otherwise they should rejoice over me: when my foot slippeth, they magnify themselves… Read the whole commentary →