Psalms 139:21

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Are not your haters hated by me, O Lord? are not those who are lifted up against you a cause of grief to me?

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Referenced Verses

  • Ps 119:158 : 158 I saw with hate those who were untrue to you; for they did not keep your saying.
  • 2 Chr 19:2 : 2 And Jehu, the son of Hanani the seer, went to King Jehoshaphat and said to him, Is it right for you to go to the help of evil-doers, loving the haters of the Lord? because of this, the wrath of the Lord has come on you.
  • Ps 31:6 : 6 I am full of hate for those who go after false gods; but my hope is in the Lord.
  • Ps 119:136 : 136 Rivers of water are flowing from my eyes, because men do not keep your law.
  • Ps 15:4 : 4 Who gives honour to those who have the fear of the Lord, turning away from him who has not the Lord's approval. He who takes an oath against himself, and makes no change.
  • Ps 26:5 : 5 I have been a hater of the band of wrongdoers, and I will not be seated among sinners.
  • Jer 13:17 : 17 But if you do not give ear to it, my soul will be weeping in secret for your pride; my eye will be weeping bitterly, streaming with water, because the Lord's flock has been taken away as prisoners.
  • Mark 3:5 : 5 And looking round on them he was angry, being sad because of their hard hearts; and he said to the man, Put out your hand. And he put it out, and his hand was made well.
  • Luke 19:41 : 41 And when he got near and saw the town, he was overcome with weeping for it,
  • Rom 9:1-3 : 1 I say what is true in Christ, and not what is false, my mind giving witness with me in the Holy Spirit, 2 That I am full of sorrow and pain without end. 3 For I have a desire to take on myself the curse for my brothers, my family in the flesh:
  • Rev 2:2 : 2 I have knowledge of your doings, and of your hard work and long waiting, and that you will not put up with evil men, and have put to the test those who say they are Apostles and are not, and have seen that they are false;
  • Rev 2:6 : 6 But at least you have the credit of hating the works of the Nicolaitans, as I do.

Similar Verses (AI)

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  • Ps 139:22-23
    2 verses
    89%

    22 My hate for them is complete; my thoughts of them are as if they were making war on me.

    23 O God, let the secrets of my heart be uncovered, and let my wandering thoughts be tested:

  • Ps 139:19-20
    2 verses
    80%

    19 If only you would put the sinners to death, O God; go far from me, you men of blood.

    20 For they go against you with evil designs, and your haters make sport of your name.

  • 19 See how those who are against me are increased, for bitter is their hate of me.

  • 29 If I was glad at the trouble of my hater, and gave cries of joy when evil overtook him;

  • 7 All my haters are talking secretly together against me; they are designing my downfall.

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

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

  • 19 Do not let my haters be glad over me falsely; let not those who are against me without cause make sport of me.

  • Ps 38:19-20
    2 verses
    74%

    19 But they are strong who have hate for me without cause: those who are against me falsely are increased in numbers.

    20 They give me back evil for good; they are my haters because I go after the thing which is right.

  • 2 For see! those who make war on you are out of control; your haters are lifting up their heads.

  • 6 I am full of hate for those who go after false gods; but my hope is in the Lord.

  • 5 I have been a hater of the band of wrongdoers, and I will not be seated among sinners.

  • 74%

    1 <A Psalm. Of David. When he went in flight from Absalom his son.> Lord, how greatly are they increased who make attacks on me! in great numbers they come against me.

  • Ps 109:3-5
    3 verses
    74%

    3 Words of hate are round about me; they have made war against me without cause.

    4 For my love they give me back hate; but I have given myself to prayer.

    5 They have put on me evil for good; hate in exchange for my love.

  • 23 But you, Lord, have knowledge of all the designs which they have made against my life; let not their evil-doing be covered or their sin be washed away from before your eyes: but let it be a cause of falling before you: so do to them in the time of your wrath.

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

  • 3 I am troubled because of the voice of the cruel ones, because of the loud cry of the evil-doers; for they put a weight of evil on me, and they are cruel in their hate for me.

  • 4 Those who have hate for me without cause are greater in number than the hairs of my head; those who are against me, falsely desiring my destruction, are very strong; I gave back what I had not taken away.

  • 163 I am full of hate and disgust for false words; but I am a lover of your law.

  • 7 And the Lord your God will put all these curses on those who are against you, and on your haters who put a cruel yoke on you.

  • 14 O God, men of pride have come up against me, and the army of violent men would take my life; they have not put you before them.

  • 72%

    157 Great is the number of those who are against me; but I have not been turned away from your unchanging word.

    158 I saw with hate those who were untrue to you; for they did not keep your saying.

  • 9 From the evil-doers who are violent to me, and from those who are round me, desiring my death.

  • 7 Let my hater be like the evil man, and let him who comes against me be as the sinner.

  • 10 For my haters are waiting secretly for me; and those who are watching for my soul are banded together in their evil designs,

  • 6 My soul has long been living with the haters of peace.

  • 12 For it was not my hater who said evil of me; that would have been no grief to me; it was not one outside the number of my friends who made himself strong against me, or I would have kept myself from him in a secret place;

  • 23 I will have those who are against him broken before his face, and his haters will be crushed under my blows.

  • 9 I am broken by his wrath, and his hate has gone after me; he has made his teeth sharp against me: my haters are looking on me with cruel eyes;

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    6 Come up, Lord, in your wrath; be lifted up against my haters; be awake, my God, give orders for the judging.

  • 19 All the men of my circle keep away from me; and those dear to me are turned against me.

  • 8 My haters say evil of me all day; those who are violent against me make use of my name as a curse.

  • 23 He who has hate for me has hate for my Father.

  • 10 But you, O Lord, have mercy on me, lifting me up, so that I may give them their punishment.

  • 8 Your hand will make a search for all your haters; your right hand will be hard on all those who are against you.

  • 20 But, O Lord of armies, judging in righteousness, testing the thoughts and the heart, let me see your punishment come on them: for I have put my cause before you.

  • 11 His wrath is burning against me, and I am to him as one of his haters.

  • 26 Because they are cruel to him against whom your hand is turned; they make bitter the grief of him who is wounded by you.

  • 4 And he who is against me may not say, I have overcome him; and those who are troubling me may not be glad when I am moved.

  • 13 The fear of the Lord is seen in hating evil: pride, a high opinion of oneself, the evil way, and the false tongue, are unpleasing to me.

  • 2 You who are haters of good and lovers of evil, pulling off their skin from them and their flesh from their bones;

  • 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;

  • 24 Why is your face veiled from me, as if I was numbered among your haters?

  • 24 Be my judge, O Lord my God, in your righteousness; do not let them be glad over me.