Psalms 41 · Verse 7

Psalms 41:7

All that hate me whisper together against me: against me do they devise my hurt.
Psalms 41:7, King James Version

Psalms 41:7 in other translations

BSBAll who hate me whisper against me; they imagine the worst for me:
WEBAll who hate me whisper together against me. They imagine the worst for me.
ASVAll that hate me whisper together against me; Against me do they devise my hurt.
YLTAll hating me whisper together against me, Against me they devise evil to me:
DARBYAll that hate me whisper together against me; against me do they devise my hurt.
BBEAll my haters are talking secretly together against me; they are designing my downfall.
WebsterAll that hate me whisper together against me: against me do they devise my hurt.

What does Psalms 41:7 mean?

Jamieson-Fausset-Brown on Psalms 41:7-8
7-8. So of others, all act alike.

Robert Jamieson, A. R. Fausset & David Brown, 1871 · public domain

Adam Clarke's Commentary
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 illminded as himself, and they also drew their wicked inferences.

Adam Clarke, 1831 · public domain

Matthew Henry's Concise Commentary on Psalms 41:5-13

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…

Read the full comment on Psalms 41:5-13 →

Psalms 41:7 in the original Hebrew

Word-by-word with transliteration, English gloss and Strong's number. Tap a number for the full definition and every place the word is used.

יַ֗חַדYa.chadtogetherH3162
עָלַ֣י'a.Laion meH5921
יִ֭תְלַחֲשׁוּYit.la.cha.shuthey whisper to one anotherH3907
כָּל\־kol-allH3605
שֹׂנְאָ֑יso.ne.'Ai[those who] hate meH8130
עָלַ֓י\׀'a.Laion meH5921
יַחְשְׁב֖וּyach.she.Vuthey plotH2803
רָעָ֣הra.'AhtroubleH7451
לִֽי\׃Lifor me

Source: STEPBible TAHOT/TAGNT (Tyndale House, CC BY 4.0).

Cross references for Psalms 41:7

  • Proverbs 16:28

    A froward man soweth strife: and a whisperer separateth chief friends.

  • Matthew 26:3-4

    Then assembled together the chief priests, and the scribes, and the elders of the people, unto the palace of the high priest, who was called Caiaphas, And consulted that they might take Jesus by subtilty, and kill him.

  • Psalms 56:5-6

    Every day they wrest my words: all their thoughts are against me for evil. They gather themselves together, they hide themselves, they mark my steps, when they wait for my soul.

  • Matthew 22:15

    Then went the Pharisees, and took counsel how they might entangle him in his talk.

  • Romans 1:29

    Being filled with all unrighteousness, fornication, wickedness, covetousness, maliciousness; full of envy, murder, debate, deceit, malignity; whisperers,

  • 2 Corinthians 12:20

    For I fear, lest, when I come, I shall not find you such as I would, and that I shall be found unto you such as ye would not: lest there be debates, envyings, wraths, strifes, backbitings, whisperings, swellings, tumults:

  • Proverbs 26:20

    Where no wood is, there the fire goeth out: so where there is no talebearer, the strife ceaseth.

  • Psalms 31:13

    For I have heard the slander of many: fear was on every side: while they took counsel together against me, they devised to take away my life.

Ranked by reader votes · OpenBible.info cross references (CC BY).

Treasury of Scripture Knowledge
whisper.
Pr 16:28; 26:20; *marg:
Ro 1:29; 2Co 12:20
against.
31:13; 56:5,6; Mt 22:15; 26:3,4
my hurt. Heb. evil to me.

Treasury of Scripture Knowledge (Samuel Bagster, c. 1836) · public domain

Context

  • Psalms 41:6

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

  • Psalms 41:7

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

  • Psalms 41:8

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

Read all of Psalms 41

Psalms 41:7 in other languages

Spanish
Reina-Valera 1909		Reunidos murmuraban contra mí todos los que me aborrecían: contra mí pensaban mal, diciendo de mí:
French
Bible J.N. Darby 1885		Et si l’un vient me voir, il dit des paroles de fausseté; son cœur amasse par-devers lui l’iniquité;… il sort dehors, il en parle.
German
Elberfelder 1871		Miteinander raunen wider mich alle meine Hasser; Böses ersinnen sie wider mich:
Latin
Clementine Vulgate		et Deus meus. Ad meipsum anima mea conturbata est: propterea memor ero tui de terra Jordanis et Hermoniim a monte modico.