Psalms 63:9

Authorized King James Version (1611)

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

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  • Ps 55:15 : 15 Let death seize upon them, [and] let them go down quick into hell: for wickedness [is] in their dwellings, [and] among them.
  • Ps 40:14 : 14 Let them be ashamed and confounded together that seek after my soul to destroy it; let them be driven backward and put to shame that wish me evil.
  • Ps 9:17 : 17 The wicked shall be turned into hell, [and] all the nations that forget God.
  • 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 35:26 : 26 Let them be ashamed and brought to confusion together that rejoice at mine hurt: let them be clothed with shame and dishonour that magnify [themselves] against me.
  • Ps 38:12 : 12 ¶ They also that seek after my life lay snares [for me]: and they that seek my hurt speak mischievous things, and imagine deceits all the day long.
  • Num 16:30-33 : 30 But if the LORD make a new thing, and the earth open her mouth, and swallow them up, with all that [appertain] unto them, and they go down quick into the pit; then ye shall understand that these men have provoked the LORD. 31 And it came to pass, as he had made an end of speaking all these words, that the ground clave asunder that [was] under them: 32 And the earth opened her mouth, and swallowed them up, and their houses, and all the men that [appertained] unto Korah, and all [their] goods. 33 They, and all that [appertained] to them, went down alive into the pit, and the earth closed upon them: and they perished from among the congregation.
  • 1 Sam 25:29 : 29 Yet a man is risen to pursue thee, and to seek thy soul: but the soul of my lord shall be bound in the bundle of life with the LORD thy God; and the souls of thine enemies, them shall he sling out, [as out] of the middle of a sling.
  • 1 Sam 28:19 : 19 Moreover the LORD will also deliver Israel with thee into the hand of the Philistines: and to morrow [shalt] thou and thy sons [be] with me: the LORD also shall deliver the host of Israel into the hand of the Philistines.
  • Job 40:13 : 13 Hide them in the dust together; [and] bind their faces in secret.
  • Ps 55:23 : 23 But thou, O God, shalt bring them down into the pit of destruction: bloody and deceitful men shall not live out half their days; but I will trust in thee.
  • Ps 70:2 : 2 Let them be ashamed and confounded that seek after my soul: let them be turned backward, and put to confusion, that desire my hurt.
  • Ps 86:13 : 13 For great [is] thy mercy toward me: and thou hast delivered my soul from the lowest hell.
  • Isa 14:9 : 9 Hell from beneath is moved for thee to meet [thee] at thy coming: it stirreth up the dead for thee, [even] all the chief ones of the earth; it hath raised up from their thrones all the kings of the nations.
  • Isa 14:15 : 15 Yet thou shalt be brought down to hell, to the sides of the pit.
  • Isa 14:19 : 19 But thou art cast out of thy grave like an abominable branch, [and as] the raiment of those that are slain, thrust through with a sword, that go down to the stones of the pit; as a carcase trodden under feet.
  • Ezek 32:18-32 : 18 Son of man, wail for the multitude of Egypt, and cast them down, [even] her, and the daughters of the famous nations, unto the nether parts of the earth, with them that go down into the pit. 19 Whom dost thou pass in beauty? go down, and be thou laid with the uncircumcised. 20 They shall fall in the midst of [them that are] slain by the sword: she is delivered to the sword: draw her and all her multitudes. 21 The strong among the mighty shall speak to him out of the midst of hell with them that help him: they are gone down, they lie uncircumcised, slain by the sword. 22 Asshur [is] there and all her company: his graves [are] about him: all of them slain, fallen by the sword: 23 Whose graves are set in the sides of the pit, and her company is round about her grave: all of them slain, fallen by the sword, which caused terror in the land of the living. 24 There [is] Elam and all her multitude round about her grave, all of them slain, fallen by the sword, which are gone down uncircumcised into the nether parts of the earth, which caused their terror in the land of the living; yet have they borne their shame with them that go down to the pit. 25 They have set her a bed in the midst of the slain with all her multitude: her graves [are] round about him: all of them uncircumcised, slain by the sword: though their terror was caused in the land of the living, yet have they borne their shame with them that go down to the pit: he is put in the midst of [them that be] slain. 26 There [is] Meshech, Tubal, and all her multitude: her graves [are] round about him: all of them uncircumcised, slain by the sword, though they caused their terror in the land of the living. 27 And they shall not lie with the mighty [that are] fallen of the uncircumcised, which are gone down to hell with their weapons of war: and they have laid their swords under their heads, but their iniquities shall be upon their bones, though [they were] the terror of the mighty in the land of the living. 28 Yea, thou shalt be broken in the midst of the uncircumcised, and shalt lie with [them that are] slain with the sword. 29 There [is] Edom, her kings, and all her princes, which with their might are laid by [them that were] slain by the sword: they shall lie with the uncircumcised, and with them that go down to the pit. 30 There [be] the princes of the north, all of them, and all the Zidonians, which are gone down with the slain; with their terror they are ashamed of their might; and they lie uncircumcised with [them that be] slain by the sword, and bear their shame with them that go down to the pit. 31 Pharaoh shall see them, and shall be comforted over all his multitude, [even] Pharaoh and all his army slain by the sword, saith the Lord GOD. 32 For I have caused my terror in the land of the living: and he shall be laid in the midst of the uncircumcised with [them that are] slain with the sword, [even] Pharaoh and all his multitude, saith the Lord GOD.
  • Acts 1:25 : 25 That he may take part of this ministry and apostleship, from which Judas by transgression fell, that he might go to his own place.

Similar Verses (AI)

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  • 10 They shall fall by the sword: they shall be a portion for foxes.

  • 8 My soul followeth hard after thee: thy right hand upholdeth me.

  • Amos 9:2-3
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    2 Though they dig into hell, thence shall mine hand take them; though they climb up to heaven, thence will I bring them down:

    3 And though they hide themselves in the top of Carmel, I will search and take them out thence; and though they be hid from my sight in the bottom of the sea, thence will I command the serpent, and he shall bite them:

  • 3 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.

  • 6 They have prepared a net for my steps; my soul is bowed down: they have digged a pit before me, into the midst whereof they are fallen [themselves]. Selah.

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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.

  • 12 Let us swallow them up alive as the grave; and whole, as those that go down into the pit:

  • 6 They gather themselves together, they hide themselves, they mark my steps, when they wait for my soul.

  • 2 Let them be ashamed and confounded that seek after my soul: let them be turned backward, and put to confusion, that desire my hurt.

  • 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.

  • 13 Let them be confounded [and] consumed that are adversaries to my soul; let them be covered [with] reproach and dishonour that seek my hurt.

  • 14 Let them be ashamed and confounded together that seek after my soul to destroy it; let them be driven backward and put to shame that wish me evil.

  • 15 Let death seize upon them, [and] let them go down quick into hell: for wickedness [is] in their dwellings, [and] among them.

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

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

  • 22 Yea, his soul draweth near unto the grave, and his life to the destroyers.

  • 3 For, lo, they lie in wait for my soul: the mighty are gathered against me; not [for] my transgression, nor [for] my sin, O LORD.

  • 20 [Let] this [be] the reward of mine adversaries from the LORD, and of them that speak evil against my soul.

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

  • Ps 86:13-14
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    13 For great [is] thy mercy toward me: and thou hast delivered my soul from the lowest hell.

    14 O God, the proud are risen against me, and the assemblies of violent [men] have sought after my soul; and have not set thee before them.

  • 15 Yet thou shalt be brought down to hell, to the sides of the pit.

  • 6 I went down to the bottoms of the mountains; the earth with her bars [was] about me for ever: yet hast thou brought up my life from corruption, O LORD my God.

  • 7 For without cause have they hid for me their net [in] a pit, [which] without cause they have digged for my soul.

  • 6 To dwell in the clifts of the valleys, [in] caves of the earth, and [in] the rocks.

  • 10 Let burning coals fall upon them: let them be cast into the fire; into deep pits, that they rise not up again.

  • 16 They shall go down to the bars of the pit, when [our] rest together [is] in the dust.

  • 15 ¶ But God will redeem my soul from the power of the grave: for he shall receive me. Selah.

  • 3 The sorrows of death compassed me, and the pains of hell gat hold upon me: I found trouble and sorrow.

  • 38 I have wounded them that they were not able to rise: they are fallen under my feet.

  • 53 They have cut off my life in the dungeon, and cast a stone upon me.

  • 18 Draw nigh unto my soul, [and] redeem it: deliver me because of mine enemies.

  • 7 Our bones are scattered at the grave's mouth, as when one cutteth and cleaveth [wood] upon the earth.

  • 17 They also went down into hell with him unto [them that be] slain with the sword; and [they that were] his arm, [that] dwelt under his shadow in the midst of the heathen.

  • 9 Hell from beneath is moved for thee to meet [thee] at thy coming: it stirreth up the dead for thee, [even] all the chief ones of the earth; it hath raised up from their thrones all the kings of the nations.

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

  • 23 But thou, O God, shalt bring them down into the pit of destruction: bloody and deceitful men shall not live out half their days; but I will trust in thee.

  • 2 When the wicked, [even] mine enemies and my foes, came upon me to eat up my flesh, they stumbled and fell.

  • 9 From the wicked that oppress me, [from] my deadly enemies, [who] compass me about.

  • 12 ¶ They also that seek after my life lay snares [for me]: and they that seek my hurt speak mischievous things, and imagine deceits all the day long.

  • 15 The heathen are sunk down in the pit [that] they made: in the net which they hid is their own foot taken.

  • 4 My soul [is] among lions: [and] I lie [even among] them that are set on fire, [even] the sons of men, whose teeth [are] spears and arrows, and their tongue a sharp sword.

  • 36 But he that sinneth against me wrongeth his own soul: all they that hate me love death.

  • 39 And I have consumed them, and wounded them, that they could not arise: yea, they are fallen under my feet.

  • 13 Arise, O LORD, disappoint him, cast him down: deliver my soul from the wicked, [which is] thy sword:

  • 5 The sorrows of hell compassed me about: the snares of death prevented me.

  • 9 Keep me from the snares [which] they have laid for me, and the gins of the workers of iniquity.

  • 8 If I ascend up into heaven, thou [art] there: if I make my bed in hell, behold, thou [art there].

  • 7 ¶ Hear me speedily, O LORD: my spirit faileth: hide not thy face from me, lest I be like unto them that go down into the pit.