Psalms 118:13

Bible in Basic English (1941)

I have been hard pushed by you, so that I might have a fall: but the Lord was my helper.

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Referenced Verses

  • Ps 140:4 : 4 O Lord, take me out of the hands of sinners; keep me safe from the violent man: for they are designing my downfall.
  • Ps 18:17-18 : 17 He made me free from my strong hater, and from those who were against me, because they were stronger than I. 18 They came on me in the day of my trouble; but the Lord was my support.
  • Ps 56:1-3 : 1 <To the chief music-maker; put to Jonath elem rehokim. Of David. Michtam. When the Philistines took him in Gath.> Have mercy on me, O God, for man is attempting my destruction; every day he makes cruel attacks against me. 2 My haters are ever ready to put an end to me; great numbers are lifting themselves up against me. 3 In the time of my fear, I will have faith in you.
  • Ps 86:17 : 17 Give me a sign for good; so that my haters may see it and be shamed; because you, Lord, have been my help and comfort.
  • 1 Sam 20:3 : 3 But David took his oath again and said, Your father sees that I am dear to you; so he says to himself, Let Jonathan have no idea of this, for it will be a grief to him; but as the Lord is living, and as your soul is living, there is only a step between me and death.
  • 1 Sam 25:29 : 29 And though a man has taken up arms against you, putting your life in danger, still the soul of my lord will be kept safe among the band of the living with the Lord your God; and the souls of those who are against you he will send violently away from him, like stones from a bag.
  • 2 Sam 17:1-3 : 1 Then Ahithophel said to Absalom, Let me take out twelve thousand men and this very night I will go after David: 2 And I will come up with him when he is tired and feeble, and make him full of fear: and all the people with him will go in flight; and I will make an attack on the king only: 3 And I will make all the people come back to you as a bride comes back to her husband: it is the life of only one man you are going after; so all the people will be at peace.
  • Mic 7:8 : 8 Do not be glad because of my sorrow, O my hater: after my fall I will be lifted up; when I am seated in the dark, the Lord will be a light to me.
  • Matt 4:1-9 : 1 Then Jesus was sent by the Spirit into the waste land to be tested by the Evil One. 2 And after going without food for forty days and forty nights, he was in need of it. 3 And the Evil One came and said to him, If you are the Son of God, give the word for these stones to become bread. 4 But he made answer and said, It is in the Writings, Bread is not man's only need, but every word which comes out of the mouth of God. 5 Then the Evil One took him to the holy town; and he put him on the highest point of the Temple and said to him, 6 If you are the Son of God, let yourself go down; for it is in the Writings, He will give his angels care over you; and, In their hands they will keep you up, so that your foot may not be crushed against a stone. 7 Jesus said to him, Again it is in the Writings, You may not put the Lord your God to the test. 8 Again, the Evil One took him up to a very high mountain, and let him see all the kingdoms of the world and the glory of them; 9 And he said to him, All these things will I give you, if you will go down on your face and give me worship. 10 Then said Jesus to him, Away, Satan: for it is in the Writings, Give worship to the Lord your God and be his servant only. 11 Then the Evil One went away from him, and angels came and took care of him.
  • Heb 2:14 : 14 And because the children are flesh and blood, he took a body himself and became like them; so that by his death he might put an end to him who had the power of death, that is to say, the Evil One;

Similar Verses (AI)

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  • Ps 118:10-12
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    81%

    10 All the nations have come round me; but in the name of the Lord I will have them cut down.

    11 They are round me, yes, they are all about me; but in the name of the Lord I will have them cut down.

    12 They are round me like bees; but they are put out like a fire among thorns; for in the name of the Lord I will have them cut down.

  • Ps 18:38-40
    3 verses
    79%

    38 I will give them wounds, so that they are not able to get up: they are stretched under my feet.

    39 For I have been armed by you with strength for the fight: you have made low under me those who come out against me.

    40 By you their backs are turned in flight, so that my haters are cut off.

  • Ps 118:14
    79%

    14 The Lord is my strength and my song; he has become my salvation.

  • Ps 18:17-18
    2 verses
    79%

    17 He made me free from my strong hater, and from those who were against me, because they were stronger than I.

    18 They came on me in the day of my trouble; but the Lord was my support.

  • Ps 118:6-7
    2 verses
    79%

    6 The Lord is on my side; I will have no fear: what is man able to do to me?

    7 The Lord is my great helper: I will see my desire against my haters.

  • Ps 109:26
    78%

    26 Give me help, O Lord my God; in your mercy be my saviour;

  • Ps 116:6
    78%

    6 The Lord keeps the simple; I was made low, and he was my saviour.

  • 2 Sam 22:18-19
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    78%

    18 He made me free from my strong hater, from those who were against me, because they were stronger than I.

    19 They came on me in the day of my trouble: but the Lord was my support.

  • 2 Sam 22:39-41
    3 verses
    78%

    39 I have sent destruction on them and given them wounds, so that they are not able to get up: they are stretched under my feet.

    40 For I have been armed by you with strength for the fight: you have made low under me those who came out against me.

    41 By you their backs are turned in flight, so that my haters are cut off.

  • Ps 40:13
    77%

    13 Be pleased, O Lord, to take me out of danger; O Lord, come quickly and give me help.

  • Ps 30:10
    77%

    10 Give ear to me, O Lord, and have mercy on me: Lord, be my helper.

  • Ps 118:18
    76%

    18 The hand of Jah has been hard on me; but he has not given me up to death.

  • Ps 31:14
    76%

    14 But I had faith in you, O Lord; I said, You are my God.

  • Ps 28:7
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    7 The Lord is my strength and my breastplate, my heart had faith in him and I am helped; for this cause my heart is full of rapture, and I will give him praise in my song.

  • Ps 116:8
    76%

    8 You have taken my soul from the power of death, keeping my eyes from weeping, and my feet from falling.

  • Ps 22:19
    76%

    19 Do not be far from me, O Lord: O my strength, come quickly to my help.

  • Ps 18:35-36
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    76%

    35 You have given me the breastplate of your salvation: your right hand has been my support, and your mercy has made me great.

    36 You have made my steps wide under me, so that my feet are kept from slipping.

  • Ps 18:2
    76%

    2 The Lord is my Rock, my walled town, and my saviour; my God, my Rock, in him will I put my faith; my breastplate, and the horn of my salvation, and my high tower.

  • 2 Sam 22:37
    76%

    37 You have made my steps wide under me, so that my feet make no slip.

  • Ps 138:7
    75%

    7 Even when trouble is round me, you will give me life; your hand will be stretched out against the wrath of my haters, and your right hand will be my salvation.

  • Ps 31:4
    75%

    4 Take me out of the net which they have put ready for me secretly; for you are my strength.

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    75%

    2 When evil-doers, even my haters, came on me to put an end to me, they were broken and put to shame.

  • Ps 30:1-2
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    75%

    1 <A Psalm. A Song at the blessing of the House. Of David.> I will give you praise and honour, O Lord, because through you I have been lifted up; you have not given my haters cause to be glad over me.

    2 O Lord my God, I sent up my cry to you, and you have made me well.

  • Ps 18:29
    75%

    29 By your help I have made a way through the wall which was shutting me in; by the help of my God I have gone over a wall.

  • Ps 18:48
    75%

    48 He makes me free from my haters; I am lifted up over those who come up against me: you have made me free from the violent man.

  • Ps 3:3
    75%

    3 But your strength, O Lord, is round me, you are my glory and the lifter up of my head.

  • Ps 61:3
    74%

    3 For you have been my secret place, and my high tower from those who made war on me.

  • 2 Sam 22:49
    74%

    49 He makes me free from my haters: I am lifted up over those who come up against me: you have made me free from the violent man.

  • Ps 94:18
    74%

    18 If I say, My foot is slipping; your mercy, O Lord, is my support.

  • Ps 43:2
    74%

    2 You are the God of my strength; why have you put me from you? why do I go in sorrow because of the attacks of my haters?

  • Ps 54:4
    74%

    4 See, God is my helper: the Lord is the great supporter of my soul.

  • Job 30:13
    74%

    13 They have made waste my roads, with a view to my destruction; his bowmen come round about me;

  • Ps 9:13
    74%

    13 Have mercy on me, O Lord, and see how I am troubled by my haters; let me be lifted up from the doors of death;

  • 2 Sam 22:3
    74%

    3 My God, my Rock, in him will I put my faith; my breastplate, and the horn of my salvation, my high tower, and my safe place; my saviour, who keeps me safe from the violent man.

  • Ps 129:2
    74%

    2 Great have been my troubles from the time when I was young, but my troubles have not overcome me.

  • Jer 20:11
    74%

    11 But the Lord is with me as a great one, greatly to be feared: so my attackers will have a fall, and they will not overcome me: they will be greatly shamed, because they have not done wisely, even with an unending shame, kept in memory for ever.

  • Ps 3:7
    74%

    7 Come to me, Lord; keep me safe, O my God; for you have given all my haters blows on their face-bones; the teeth of the evil-doers have been broken by you.

  • Ps 38:22
    74%

    22 Come quickly to give me help, O Lord, my salvation.

  • 2 Sam 22:30
    74%

    30 By your help I have made a way through the wall which was shutting me in: by the help of my God I have gone over a wall.