Verse 5

Let my hater go after my soul and take it; let my life be crushed to the earth, and my honour into the dust. (Selah.)

Referenced Verses

  • Job 16:15 : 15 I have made haircloth the clothing of my skin, and my horn is rolled in the dust.
  • Job 31:5-9 : 5 If I have gone in false ways, or my foot has been quick in working deceit; 6 (Let me be measured in upright scales, and let God see my righteousness:) 7 If my steps have been turned out of the way, or if my heart went after my eyes, or if the property of another is in my hands; 8 Let me put seed in the earth for another to have the fruit of it, and let my produce be uprooted. 9 If my heart went after another man's wife, or if I was waiting secretly at my neighbour's door; 10 Then let my wife give pleasure to another man and let others make use of her body.
  • Job 31:38-40 : 38 If my land has made an outcry against me, or the ploughed earth has been in sorrow; 39 If I have taken its produce without payment, causing the death of its owners; 40 Then in place of grain let thorns come up, and in place of barley evil-smelling plants.
  • Job 40:12-13 : 12 His tail is curving like a cedar; the muscles of his legs are joined together. 13 His bones are pipes of brass, his legs are like rods of iron.
  • Ps 3:2 : 2 Unnumbered are those who say of my soul, There is no help for him in God. (Selah.)
  • Ps 44:5 : 5 Through you will we overcome our haters; by your name will they be crushed under our feet who are violent against us.
  • Ps 49:12 : 12 But man, like the animals, does not go on for ever; he comes to an end like the beasts.
  • Ps 60:12 : 12 Through God we will do great things, for through him our haters will be crushed under our feet.
  • Isa 10:6 : 6 I will send him against a nation of wrongdoers, and against the people of my wrath I will give him orders, to take their wealth in war, crushing them down like the dust in the streets.
  • Isa 63:3 : 3 I have been crushing the grapes by myself, and of the peoples there was no man with me: in my wrath and in my passion, they were crushed under my feet; and my robes are marked with their life-blood, and all my clothing is red.
  • Jer 17:13 : 13 O Lord, the hope of Israel, all who give you up will be put to shame; those who go away from you will be cut off from the earth, because they have given up the Lord, the fountain of living waters.
  • Hab 3:13 : 13 You went out for the salvation of your people, for the salvation of the one on whom your holy oil was put; wounding the head of the family of the evil-doer, uncovering the base even to the neck. Selah.
  • Zech 10:5 : 5 Together they will be like men of war, crushing down their haters into the earth of the streets in the fight; they will make war because the Lord is with them: and the horsemen will be shamed.
  • Mal 4:3 : 3 And the evil-doers will be crushed under you, they will be dust under your feet, in the day when I do my work, says the Lord of armies.