Psalm 109:3 {108:3}
Good News Translation
and they say evil things about me, attacking me for no reason.

New Revised Standard Version
They beset me with words of hate, and attack me without cause.

Contemporary English Version
and hateful things are said for no reason.

New American Bible
with hateful words they surround me, attacking me without cause.

Douay-Rheims Bible
They have spoken against me with deceitful tongues; and they have compassed me about with words of hatred; and have fought against me without cause.

Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

They have spoken against me with deceitful tongues; and they have compassed me about with words of hatred; and have fought against me without cause.

compassed

Psalm 17:11 They have cast me forth, and now they have surrounded me: they have set their eyes bowing down to the earth.

Psalm 22:12 Many calves have surrounded me: fat bulls have besieged me.

Psalm 88:17 They have come round about me like water all the day: they have compassed me about together.

2 Samuel 16:7,8 And thus said Semei when he cursed the king: Come out, come out, thou man of blood, and thou man of Belial. . . .

Hosea 11:12 Ephraim hath compassed me about with denials, and the house of Israel with deceit: but Juda went down as a witness with God, and is faithful with the saints.

fought

Psalm 35:7,20 For without cause they have hidden their net for me unto destruction: without cause they have upbraided my soul. . . .

Psalm 59:3,4 For behold they have caught my soul: the mighty have rushed in upon me: . . .

Psalm 69:4 They are multiplied above the hairs of my head, who hate me without cause. My enemies are grown strong who have wrongfully persecuted me: then did I pay that which I took not away.

1 Samuel 19:4,5 And Jonathan spoke good things of David to Saul, his father: and said to him: Sin not, O king, against thy servant, David, because he hath not sinned against thee, and his works are very good towards thee. . . .

1 Samuel 26:18 And he said: Wherefore doth my lord persecute his servant? What have I done? or what evil is there in my hand?

2 Samuel 15:12 Absalom also sent for Achitophel the Gilonite, David's counsellor, from his city Gilo. And while he was offering sacrifices, there was a strong conspiracy, and the people running together increased with Absalom.

John 15:24,25 If I had not done among them the works that no other man hath done, they would not have sin: but now they have both seen and hated both me and my Father. . . .

Context
The Song of the Slandered
2O God, be not thou silent in my praise: for the mouth of the wicked and the mouth of the deceitful man is opened against me. 3They have spoken against me with deceitful tongues; and they have compassed me about with words of hatred; and have fought against me without cause.4Instead of making me a return of love, they detracted me: but I gave myself to prayer.…
Cross References
John 15:25
But that the word may be fulfilled which is written in their law: they hated me without cause.

Psalm 35:7
For without cause they have hidden their net for me unto destruction: without cause they have upbraided my soul.

Psalm 69:4
They are multiplied above the hairs of my head, who hate me without cause. My enemies are grown strong who have wrongfully persecuted me: then did I pay that which I took not away.

Psalm 109:2
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