Psalm 86:14 {85:14}
Good News Translation
Proud people are coming against me, O God; a cruel gang is trying to kill me--people who pay no attention to you.

New Revised Standard Version
O God, the insolent rise up against me; a band of ruffians seeks my life, and they do not set you before them.

Contemporary English Version
Proud and violent enemies, who don't care about you, have ganged up to attack and kill me.

New American Bible
O God, the arrogant have risen against me; a ruthless band has sought my life; to you they pay no heed.

Douay-Rheims Bible
O God, the wicked are risen up against me, and the assembly of the mighty have sought my soul: and they have not set thee before their eyes.

Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

O God, the wicked are risen up against me, and the assembly of the mighty have sought my soul: and they have not set thee before their eyes.

O God

Psalm 36:11 Let not the foot of pride come to me, and let not the hand of the sinner move me.

Psalm 54:3 For strangers have risen up against me; and the mighty have sought after my soul: and they have not set God before their eyes.

Psalm 119:51,69,85 The proud did iniquitously altogether: but I declined not from thy law. . . .

Psalm 140:5 The proud have hidden a net for me. And they have stretched out cords for a snare: they have laid for me a stumblingblock by the wayside.

2 Samuel 15:1 Now after these things Absalom made himself chariots, and horsemen, and fifty men to run before him.

assemblies

2 Samuel 16:20-23 And Absalom said to Achitophel: Consult what we are to do. . . .

2 Samuel 17:1,4,14 And Achitophel said to Absalom: I will choose me twelve thousand men, and I will arise and pursue after David this night. . . .

Matthew 26:3,4 Then were gathered together the chief priests and ancients of the people, into the court of the high priest, who was called Caiphas: . . .

Matthew 27:1,2 And when morning was come, all the chief priests and ancients of the people took counsel against Jesus, that they might put him to death. . . .

Acts 4:27,28 For of a truth there assembled together in this city against thy holy child Jesus, whom thou hast anointed, Herod, and Pontius Pilate, with the Gentiles and the people of Israel, . . .

violent.

Psalm 10:4,11,13 The sinner hath provoked the Lord according to the multitude of his wrath he will not seek him: . . .

Psalm 14:4 Shall not all they know that work iniquity, who devour my people as they eat bread?

Psalm 36:1 Unto the end, for the servant of God, David himself. [2] The unjust hath said within himself, that he would sin: there is no fear of God before his eyes.

Ezekiel 8:12 And he said to me: Surely thou seest, O son of man, what the ancients of the house of Israel do in the dark, every one in private in his chamber: for they say: The Lord seeth us not, the Lord hath forsaken the earth.

Ezekiel 9:9 And he said to me: The iniquity of the house of Israel, and of Juda, is exceeding great, and the land is filled with blood, and the city is filled with perverseness: for they have said: The Lord hath forsaken the earth, and the Lord seeth not.

Context
Tried But Trusting
13For thy mercy is great towards me: and thou hast delivered my soul out of the lower hell. 14O God, the wicked are risen up against me, and the assembly of the mighty have sought my soul: and they have not set thee before their eyes.15And thou, O Lord, art a God of compassion, and merciful, patient, and of much mercy, and true.…
Cross References
Psalm 54:3
For strangers have risen up against me; and the mighty have sought after my soul: and they have not set God before their eyes.

Psalm 140:1
Unto the end, a psalm of David. [2] Deliver me, O Lord, from the evil man: rescue me from the unjust man.

Psalm 86:13
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