Psalms 7:5

Bible in Basic English (1941)

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.)

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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.

Similar Verses (AI)

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  • Ps 143:3-4
    2 verses
    82%

    3 The 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.

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

  • Ps 7:6
    80%

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

  • Job 27:7
    79%

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

  • Ps 57:5-6
    2 verses
    78%

    5 O God, be lifted up higher than the heavens; let your glory be over all the earth.

    6 They 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.)

  • Ps 7:4
    78%

    4 If I have given back evil to him who did evil to me, or have taken anything from him who was against me without cause;

  • Ps 13:4
    78%

    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.

  • Ps 71:10-11
    2 verses
    77%

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

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

  • Ps 71:13
    77%

    13 Let those who say evil against my soul be overcome and put to shame; let my haters be made low and have no honour.

  • Ps 13:2
    77%

    2 How 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?

  • Ps 35:3-4
    2 verses
    76%

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

    4 Let them be overcome and put to shame who make attempts to take my soul; let those who would do me damage be turned back and made foolish.

  • Ps 54:3
    76%

    3 For 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.)

  • Ps 35:24
    76%

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

  • Ps 41:5
    76%

    5 My haters say evil against me, When will he be dead, and his name come to an end?

  • Ps 109:20
    75%

    20 Let this be the reward given to my haters from the Lord, and to those who say evil of my soul.

  • Ps 63:9
    75%

    9 But those whose desire is my soul's destruction will go down to the lower parts of the earth.

  • Ps 70:2
    75%

    2 Let those who go after my soul have shame and trouble; let those who have evil designs against me be turned back and made foolish.

  • Ps 55:3
    75%

    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.

  • Ps 17:13
    75%

    13 Up! Lord, come out against him, make him low, with your sword be my saviour from the evil-doer.

  • Ps 7:1-2
    2 verses
    74%

    1 <Shiggaion of David; a song which he made to the Lord, about the words of Cush the Benjamite.> O Lord my God, I put my faith in you; take me out of the hands of him who is cruel to me, and make me free;

    2 So that he may not come rushing on my soul like a lion, wounding it, while there is no one to be my saviour.

  • Ps 40:14
    74%

    14 Let those who go after my soul for its destruction have shame and trouble together; let them be turned back and made foolish who take pleasure in my trouble.

  • Mic 7:10
    74%

    10 And my hater will see it and be covered with shame; she who said to me, Where is the Lord your God? my eyes will see their desire effected on her, now she will be crushed under foot like the dust of the streets.

  • Ps 140:5
    74%

    5 The men of pride have put secret cords for my feet; stretching nets in my way, so that they may take me with their tricks. (Selah.)

  • Ps 27:2
    74%

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

  • Ps 35:6-8
    3 verses
    74%

    6 Let their way be dark and full of danger; let them be troubled by the angel of the Lord.

    7 For without cause they have put a net ready for me secretly, in which to take my soul.

    8 Let destruction come on them without their knowledge; let them be taken themselves in their secret nets, falling into the same destruction.

  • Jer 18:22-23
    2 verses
    73%

    22 Let a cry for help go up from their houses, when you send an armed band on them suddenly: for they have made a hole in which to take me, and have put nets for my feet secretly.

    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.

  • Lam 1:13
    73%

    13 From on high he has sent fire into my bones, and it has overcome them: his net is stretched out for my feet, I am turned back by him; he has made me waste and feeble all the day.

  • Ps 69:18
    73%

    18 Come near to my soul, for its salvation: be my saviour, because of those who are against me.

  • Job 13:24
    73%

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

  • Ps 56:6
    73%

    6 They come together, they are waiting in secret places, they take note of my steps, they are waiting for my soul.

  • Ps 56:2
    73%

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

  • Job 16:9
    73%

    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;

  • Lam 1:21-22
    2 verses
    73%

    21 Give 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.

    22 Let 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.

  • Ps 3:2
    73%

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

  • Lam 3:11
    73%

    11 By him my ways have been turned on one side and I have been pulled in bits; he has made me waste.

  • Ps 43:2
    73%

    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?

  • Job 30:19
    73%

    19 Truly God has made me low, even to the earth, and I have become like dust.

  • Job 16:13
    73%

    13 His bowmen come round about me; their arrows go through my body without mercy; my life is drained out on the earth.

  • Ps 6:10
    73%

    10 Let all those who are against me be shamed and deeply troubled; let them be turned back and suddenly put to shame.

  • Ps 86:14
    72%

    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.

  • Isa 27:5
    72%

    5 Or let him put himself under my power, and make peace with me.

  • Job 33:10
    72%

    10 See, he is looking for something against me; in his eyes I am as one of his haters;