Psalms 143:3

Authorized King James Version (1611)

For the enemy hath persecuted my soul; he hath smitten my life down to the ground; he hath made me to dwell in darkness, as those that have been long dead.

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Referenced Verses

  • Ps 88:4-6 : 4 I am counted with them that go down into the pit: I am as a man [that hath] no strength: 5 Free among the dead, like the slain that lie in the grave, whom thou rememberest no more: and they are cut off from thy hand. 6 Thou hast laid me in the lowest pit, in darkness, in the deeps.
  • Ps 142:6 : 6 Attend unto my cry; for I am brought very low: deliver me from my persecutors; for they are stronger than I.
  • Lam 3:6 : 6 He hath set me in dark places, as [they that be] dead of old.
  • Ezek 37:11 : 11 Then he said unto me, Son of man, these bones are the whole house of Israel: behold, they say, Our bones are dried, and our hope is lost: we are cut off for our parts.
  • 2 Sam 2:22 : 22 And Abner said again to Asahel, Turn thee aside from following me: wherefore should I smite thee to the ground? how then should I hold up my face to Joab thy brother?
  • 2 Sam 18:11 : 11 And Joab said unto the man that told him, And, behold, thou sawest [him], and why didst thou not smite him there to the ground? and I would have given thee ten [shekels] of silver, and a girdle.
  • Ps 7:1-2 : 1 ¶ Shiggaion of David, which he sang unto the LORD, concerning the words of Cush the Benjamite. O LORD my God, in thee do I put my trust: save me from all them that persecute me, and deliver me: 2 Lest he tear my soul like a lion, rending [it] in pieces, while [there is] none to deliver.
  • Ps 7:5 : 5 Let the enemy persecute my soul, and take [it]; yea, let him tread down my life upon the earth, and lay mine honour in the dust. Selah.
  • Ps 17:9-9 : 9 From the wicked that oppress me, [from] my deadly enemies, [who] compass me about. 10 They are inclosed in their own fat: with their mouth they speak proudly. 11 They have now compassed us in our steps: they have set their eyes bowing down to the earth; 12 Like as a lion [that] is greedy of his prey, and as it were a young lion lurking in secret places. 13 Arise, O LORD, disappoint him, cast him down: deliver my soul from the wicked, [which is] thy sword:
  • Ps 31:12-13 : 12 I am forgotten as a dead man out of mind: I am like a broken vessel. 13 For I have heard the slander of many: fear [was] on every side: while they took counsel together against me, they devised to take away my life.
  • Ps 35:4 : 4 Let them be confounded and put to shame that seek after my soul: let them be turned back and brought to confusion that devise my hurt.
  • Ps 54:3 : 3 For strangers are risen up against me, and oppressors seek after my soul: they have not set God before them. Selah.

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    2 He hath led me, and brought [me into] darkness, but not [into] light.

    3 Surely against me is he turned; he turneth his hand [against me] all the day.

    4 My flesh and my skin hath he made old; he hath broken my bones.

    5 He hath builded against me, and compassed [me] with gall and travail.

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    4 Therefore is my spirit overwhelmed within me; my heart within me is desolate.

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    5 Let the enemy persecute my soul, and take [it]; yea, let him tread down my life upon the earth, and lay mine honour in the dust. Selah.

  • Ps 13:2-4
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    53 They have cut off my life in the dungeon, and cast a stone upon me.

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    3 For my soul is full of troubles: and my life draweth nigh unto the grave.

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    6 Thou hast laid me in the lowest pit, in darkness, in the deeps.

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    11 He hath turned aside my ways, and pulled me in pieces: he hath made me desolate.

  • Lam 1:13
    77%

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    4 My heart is sore pained within me: and the terrors of death are fallen upon me.

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    9 But those [that] seek my soul, to destroy [it], shall go into the lower parts of the earth.

  • Ps 142:3
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  • Ps 71:10
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    10 For mine enemies speak against me; and they that lay wait for my soul take counsel together,

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    3 For strangers are risen up against me, and oppressors seek after my soul: they have not set God before them. Selah.

  • Ps 31:9-10
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    3 My soul is also sore vexed: but thou, O LORD, how long?

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    17 And thou hast removed my soul far off from peace: I forgat prosperity.

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    75%

    6 The sorrows of hell compassed me about; the snares of death prevented me;

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    75%

    3 O LORD, thou hast brought up my soul from the grave: thou hast kept me alive, that I should not go down to the pit.

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    7 Mine eye is consumed because of grief; it waxeth old because of all mine enemies.

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