Psalms 56:1

American Standard Version (1901)

[For the Chief Musician; set to Jonath elem rehokim. [A Psalm] of David. Michtam; when the Philistines took him in Gath]. Be merciful unto me, O God; For man would swallow me up: All the day long he fighting oppresseth me.

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  • Ps 16:1 : 1 [Michtam of David]. Preserve me, O God; For in thee do I take refuge.
  • Ps 57:1-3 : 1 [For the Chief Musician; [set to] Al-tashheth. [A Psalm] of David. Michtam; when he fled from Saul, in the cave]. Be merciful unto me, O God, be merciful unto me; For my soul taketh refuge in thee: Yea, in the shadow of thy wings will I take refuge, Until [these] calamities be overpast. 2 I will cry unto God Most High, Unto God that performeth [all things] for me. 3 He will send from heaven, and save me, [When] he that would swallow me up reproacheth; {{Selah God will send forth his lovingkindness and his truth.
  • Ps 69:13-16 : 13 But as for me, my prayer is unto thee, O Jehovah, in an acceptable time: O God, in the abundance of thy lovingkindness, Answer me in the truth of thy salvation. 14 Deliver me out of the mire, and let me not sink: Let me be delivered from them that hate me, and out of the deep waters. 15 Let not the waterflood overwhelm me, Neither let the deep shallow me up; And let not the pit shut its mouth upon me. 16 Answer me, O Jehovah; for thy lovingkindness is good: According to the multitude of thy tender mercies turn thou unto me.
  • Ps 27:2 : 2 When evil-doers came upon me to eat up my flesh, [Even] mine adversaries and my foes, they stumbled and fell.
  • Ps 31:9 : 9 Have mercy upon me, O Jehovah, for I am in distress: Mine eye wasteth away with grief, [yea], my soul and my body.
  • Ps 35:25 : 25 Let them not say in their heart, Aha, so would we have it: Let them not say, We have swallowed him up.
  • Ps 106:17 : 17 The earth opened and swallowed up Dathan, And covered the company of Abiram.
  • Ps 124:3 : 3 Then they had swallowed us up alive, When their wrath was kindled against us;
  • Ps 136:10 : 10 To him that smote Egypt in their first-born; For his lovingkindness [endureth] for ever;
  • Ps 136:15 : 15 But overthrew Pharaoh and his host in the Red Sea; For his lovingkindness [endureth] for ever:
  • Ps 136:17-20 : 17 To him that smote great kings; For his lovingkindness [endureth] for ever; 18 And slew famous kings; For his lovingkindness [endureth] for ever: 19 Sihon king of the Amorites; For his lovingkindness [endureth] for ever; 20 And Og king of Bashan; For his lovingkindness [endureth] for ever;
  • Ps 143:12 : 12 And in thy lovingkindness cut off mine enemies, And destroy all them that afflict my soul; For I am thy servant.
  • Prov 1:12 : 12 Let us swallow them up alive as Sheol, And whole, as those that go down into the pit;
  • Lam 2:2 : 2 The Lord hath swallowed up all the habitations of Jacob, and hath not pitied: He hath thrown down in his wrath the strongholds of the daughter of Judah; He hath brought them down to the ground; he hath profaned the kingdom and the princes thereof.
  • Lam 2:5 : 5 The Lord is become as an enemy, he hath swallowed up Israel; He hath swallowed up all her palaces, he hath destroyed his strongholds; And he hath multiplied in the daughter of Judah mourning and lamentation.
  • Lam 2:16 : 16 All thine enemies have opened their mouth wide against thee; They hiss and gnash the teeth; they say, We have swallowed her up; Certainly this is the day that we looked for; we have found, we have seen it.
  • Hos 8:8 : 8 Israel is swallowed up: now are they among the nations as a vessel wherein none delighteth.
  • 1 Cor 15:54 : 54 But when this corruptible shall have put on incorruption, and this mortal shall have put on immortality, then shall come to pass the saying that is written, Death is swallowed up in victory.
  • Ps 58:1 : 1 [For the Chief Musician; [set to] Al-tashheth. [A Psalm] of David. Michtam]. Do ye indeed in silence speak righteousness? Do ye judge uprightly, O ye sons of men?
  • Ps 59:1 : 1 [For the Chief Musician; [set to] Al-tashheth. [A Psalm] of David. Michtam; when Saul sent, and they watched the house to kill him]. Deliver me from mine enemies, O my God: Set me on high from them that rise up against me.
  • Ps 59:10 : 10 My God with his lovingkindness will meet me: God will let me see [my desire] upon mine enemies.
  • Ps 60:1 : 1 [For the Chief Musician; set to Shushan Eduth. Michtam of David, to teach; when he strove with Aram-naharaim and with Aram-zobah, and Joab returned, and smote of Edom in the Valley of Salt twelve thousand]. O God thou hast cast us off, thou hast broken us down; Thou hast been angry; oh restore us again.
  • Ps 21:9 : 9 Thou wilt make them as a fiery furnace in the time of thine anger: Jehovah will swallow them up in his wrath, And the fire shall devour them.
  • 1 Sam 21:11-15 : 11 And the servants of Achish said unto him, Is not this David the king of the land? did they not sing one to another of him in dances, saying, Saul hath slain his thousands, And David his ten thousands? 12 And David laid up these words in his heart, and was sore afraid of Achish the king of Gath. 13 And he changed his behavior before them, and feigned himself mad in their hands, and scrabbled on the doors of the gate, and let his spittle fall down upon his beard. 14 Then said Achish unto his servants, Lo, ye see the man is mad; wherefore then have ye brought him to me? 15 Do I lack madmen, that ye have brought this fellow to play the madman in my presence? shall this fellow come into my house?
  • 1 Sam 29:4 : 4 But he princes of the Philistines were wroth with him; and the princes of the Philistines said unto him, Make the man return, that he may go back to his place where thou hast appointed him, and let him not go down with us to battle, lest in the battle he become an adversary to us: for wherewith should this [fellow] reconcile himself unto his lord? should it not be with the heads of these men?

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