Psalms 3:2

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Unnumbered are those who say of my soul, There is no help for him in God. (Selah.)

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Referenced Verses

  • Ps 71:11 : 11 Saying, God has given him up; go after him and take him, for he has no helper.
  • Ps 22:7 : 7 I am laughed at by all those who see me: pushing out their lips and shaking their heads they say,
  • Ps 42:3 : 3 My tears have been my food day and night, while they keep saying to me, Where is your God?
  • Ps 42:10 : 10 The cruel words of my haters are like a crushing of my bones; when they say to me every day, Where is your God?
  • Hab 3:3 : 3 God came from Teman, and the Holy One from Mount Paran. Selah. The heavens were covered with his glory, and the earth was full of his praise.
  • Hab 3:9 : 9 Your bow was quite uncovered. Selah. By you the earth was cut through with rivers.
  • 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.
  • Matt 27:42-43 : 42 A saviour of others, he has no salvation for himself. If he is the King of Israel, let him now come down from the cross, and we will have faith in him. 43 He put his faith in God; let God be his saviour now, if he will have him; for he said, I am the Son of God.
  • 2 Sam 16:7-8 : 7 And Shimei said, with curses, Be gone, be gone, you man of blood, you good-for-nothing: 8 The Lord has sent punishment on you for all the blood of the family of Saul, whose kingdom you have taken; and the Lord has given the kingdom to Absalom, your son: now you yourself are taken in your evil, because you are a man of blood.
  • Ps 3:4 : 4 I send up a cry to the Lord with my voice, and he gives me an answer from his holy hill. (Selah.)
  • Ps 3:8 : 8 Salvation comes from the Lord; your blessing is on your people. (Selah.)
  • Ps 4:2 : 2 O you sons of men, how long will you go on turning my glory into shame? how long will you give your love to foolish things, going after what is false? (Selah.)
  • Ps 4:4 : 4 Let there be fear in your hearts, and do no sin; have bitter feelings on your bed, but make no sound. (Selah.)

Similar Verses (AI)

These verses are found using AI-powered semantic similarity based on meaning and context. Results may occasionally include unexpected connections.

  • 84%

    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 54:3-4
    2 verses
    80%

    3For men who are going after me have come out against me, violent men are purposing to take my soul; they have not put God before their eyes. (Selah.)

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

  • Ps 3:3-4
    2 verses
    78%

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

    4I send up a cry to the Lord with my voice, and he gives me an answer from his holy hill. (Selah.)

  • Ps 71:10-12
    3 verses
    76%

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

    11Saying, God has given him up; go after him and take him, for he has no helper.

    12O God, be not far from me; O my God, come quickly to my help.

  • 18He has taken my soul away from the attack which was made against me, and given it peace; for great numbers were against me.

  • 11Be not far from me, for trouble is near; there is no one to give help.

  • 4Looking to my right side, I saw no man who was my friend: I had no safe place; no one had any care for my soul.

  • Lam 1:21-22
    2 verses
    75%

    21Give ear to the voice of my grief; I have no comforter; all my haters have news of my troubles, they are glad because you have done it: let the day of fate come when they will be like me.

    22Let all their evil-doing come before you; do to them as you have done to me for all my sins: for loud is the sound of my grief, and the strength of my heart is gone.

  • 6They have made ready a net for my steps; my soul is bent down; they have made a great hole before me, and have gone down into it themselves. (Selah.)

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

  • 3Take up your spear and keep back my attackers; say to my soul, I am your salvation.

  • 12For unnumbered evils are round about me; my sins have overtaken me, so that I am bent down with their weight; they are more than the hairs of my head, my strength is gone because of them.

  • 3For see, they are watching in secret for my soul; the strong have come together against me? but not because of my sin, or my evil-doing, O Lord.

  • 14O 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.

  • 3For my soul is full of evils, and my life has come near to the underworld.

  • Ps 42:9-11
    3 verses
    74%

    9I will say to God my Rock, Why have you let me go from your memory? why do I go in sorrow because of the attacks of my haters?

    10The cruel words of my haters are like a crushing of my bones; when they say to me every day, Where is your God?

    11Why are you crushed down, O my soul? and why are you troubled in me? put your hope in God; for I will again give him praise who is my help and my God.

  • 5Why are you crushed down, O my soul? and why are you troubled in me? put your hope in God; for I will again give him praise who is my help and my God.

  • 2How long is my soul to be in doubt, with sorrow in my heart all the day? how long will he who is against me be given power over me?

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

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

  • Ps 143:3-4
    2 verses
    73%

    3The evil man has gone after my soul; my life is crushed down to the earth: he has put me in the dark, like those who have long been dead.

    4Because of this my spirit is overcome; and my heart is full of fear.

  • 3He will send from heaven, and take me from the power of him whose desire is for my destruction. God will send out his mercy and his good faith.

  • 1<To the chief music-maker on Aijeleth-hash-shahar. A Psalm. Of David.> My God, my God, why are you turned away from me? why are you so far from helping me, and from the words of my crying?

  • 2You 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?

  • 1<For the chief music-maker. Of David.> In the Lord put I my faith; how will you say to my soul, Go in flight like a bird to the mountain?

  • 5Why are you crushed down, O my soul? and why are you troubled in me? put your hope in God, for I will again give him praise who is my help and my God.

  • 12Give us help in our trouble; for there is no help in man.

  • 73%

    5Let my hater go after my soul and take it; let my life be crushed to the earth, and my honour into the dust. (Selah.)

  • 4And 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.

  • 7In God is my salvation, and my glory; the Rock of my strength, and my safe place.

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

  • 13I have been hard pushed by you, so that I might have a fall: but the Lord was my helper.

  • 2O my soul, you have said to the Lord, You are my Lord: I have no good but you.

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

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

  • 1<A Song of the going up.> Great have been my troubles from the time when I was young (let Israel now say);

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

  • 72%

    6There are numbers who say, Who will do us any good? the light of his face has gone from us.

  • 2My haters are ever ready to put an end to me; great numbers are lifting themselves up against me.

  • 1<To the chief music-maker; put to Al-tashheth. Michtam. Of David. When he went in flight from Saul, in the hole of the rock.> Have mercy on me, O God, have mercy on me; for the hope of my soul is in you: I will keep myself safely under the shade of your wings, till these troubles are past.

  • 7I am laughed at by all those who see me: pushing out their lips and shaking their heads they say,

  • 72%

    3My soul is in bitter trouble; and you, O Lord, how long?