Psalm 62:3 “How long will you threaten a man? Will all of you throw him down like…”

Psalm 62:3

How long will you threaten a man? Will all of you throw him down like a leaning wall or a tottering fence?

Berean Standard Bible

Other translations

King James Version

How long will ye imagine mischief against a man? ye shall be slain all of you: as a bowing wall shall ye be, and as a tottering fence.

World English Bible

How long will you assault a man? Would all of you throw him down, like a leaning wall, like a tottering fence?

American Standard Version

How long will ye set upon a man, That ye may slay him, all of you, Like a leaning wall, like a tottering fence?

Geneva Bible 1599

How long wil ye imagine mischiefe against a man? ye shalbe all slaine: ye shalbe as a bowed wall, or as a wall shaken.

Darby Translation

How long will ye assail a man; will ye [seek], all of you, to break him down as a bowing wall or a tottering fence?

Young's Literal Translation

Till when do ye devise mischief against a man? Ye are destroyed all of you, As a wall inclined, a hedge that is cast down.

Bible in Basic English

How long will you go on designing evil against a man? running against him as against a broken wall, which is on the point of falling?

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Cross references

“How”

Jeremiah 4:14 Psalm 82:2 Exodus 16:28 Proverbs 1:22 Psalm 4:2 Exodus 10:3

Jeremiah 4:14 · BSB

Wash the evil from your heart, O Jerusalem, so that you may be saved. How long will you harbor wicked thoughts within you?

Psalm 82:2 · BSB

“How long will you judge unjustly and show partiality to the wicked? Selah

Exodus 16:28 · BSB

Then the LORD said to Moses, “How long will you refuse to keep My commandments and instructions?

Proverbs 1:22 · BSB

“How long, O simple ones, will you love your simple ways? How long will scoffers delight in their scorn and fools hate knowledge?

Psalm 4:2 · BSB

How long, O men, will my honor be maligned? How long will you love vanity and seek after lies ? Selah

Exodus 10:3 · BSB

So Moses and Aaron went to Pharaoh and told him, “This is what the LORD, the God of the Hebrews, says: ‘How long will you refuse to humble yourself before Me? Let My people go, so that they may worship Me.

“imagine”

Psalm 140:2 Psalm 21:11 Psalm 38:12 Hosea 7:15

Psalm 140:2 · BSB

who devise evil in their hearts and stir up war all day long.

Psalm 21:11 · BSB

Though they intend You harm, the schemes they devise will not prevail.

Psalm 38:12 · BSB

Those who seek my life lay snares; those who wish me harm speak destruction, plotting deceit all day long.

Hosea 7:15 · BSB

Although I trained and strengthened their arms, they plot evil against Me.

“ye shall”

Psalm 73:18–20 1 Samuel 26:10

Psalm 73:18–20 · BSB

Surely You set them on slick ground; You cast them down into ruin.

1 Samuel 26:10 · BSB

David added, “As surely as the LORD lives, the LORD Himself will strike him down; either his day will come and he will die, or he will go into battle and perish.

“bowing”

Isaiah 30:13 Isaiah 30:14

Isaiah 30:13 · BSB

this iniquity of yours is like a breach about to fail, a bulge in a high wall, whose collapse will come suddenly— in an instant!

Isaiah 30:14 · BSB

It will break in pieces like a potter’s jar, shattered so that no fragment can be found. Not a shard will be found in the dust large enough to scoop the coals from a hearth or to skim the water from a cistern.”

Cross references adapted from OpenBible.info (CC BY 4.0) and the Treasury of Scripture Knowledge.

In context

2He alone is my rock and my salvation. He is my fortress; I will never be shaken.

4They fully intend to cast him down from his lofty perch; they delight in lies; with their mouths they bless, but inwardly they curse. Selah

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