Psalms 7:5

Authorized King James Version (1611)

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.

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  • Job 16:15 : 15 I have sewed sackcloth upon my skin, and defiled my horn in the dust.
  • Job 31:5-9 : 5 If I have walked with vanity, or if my foot hath hasted to deceit; 6 Let me be weighed in an even balance, that God may know mine integrity. 7 If my step hath turned out of the way, and mine heart walked after mine eyes, and if any blot hath cleaved to mine hands; 8 [Then] let me sow, and let another eat; yea, let my offspring be rooted out. 9 ¶ If mine heart have been deceived by a woman, or [if] I have laid wait at my neighbour's door; 10 [Then] let my wife grind unto another, and let others bow down upon her.
  • Job 31:38-40 : 38 If my land cry against me, or that the furrows likewise thereof complain; 39 If I have eaten the fruits thereof without money, or have caused the owners thereof to lose their life: 40 Let thistles grow instead of wheat, and cockle instead of barley. The words of Job are ended.
  • Job 40:12-13 : 12 Look on every one [that is] proud, [and] bring him low; and tread down the wicked in their place. 13 Hide them in the dust together; [and] bind their faces in secret.
  • Ps 3:2 : 2 Many [there be] which say of my soul, [There is] no help for him in God. Selah.
  • Ps 44:5 : 5 Through thee will we push down our enemies: through thy name will we tread them under that rise up against us.
  • Ps 49:12 : 12 Nevertheless man [being] in honour abideth not: he is like the beasts [that] perish.
  • Ps 60:12 : 12 Through God we shall do valiantly: for he [it is that] shall tread down our enemies.
  • Isa 10:6 : 6 I will send him against an hypocritical nation, and against the people of my wrath will I give him a charge, to take the spoil, and to take the prey, and to tread them down like the mire of the streets.
  • Isa 63:3 : 3 I have trodden the winepress alone; and of the people [there was] none with me: for I will tread them in mine anger, and trample them in my fury; and their blood shall be sprinkled upon my garments, and I will stain all my raiment.
  • Jer 17:13 : 13 O LORD, the hope of Israel, all that forsake thee shall be ashamed, [and] they that depart from me shall be written in the earth, because they have forsaken the LORD, the fountain of living waters.
  • Hab 3:13 : 13 Thou wentest forth for the salvation of thy people, [even] for salvation with thine anointed; thou woundedst the head out of the house of the wicked, by discovering the foundation unto the neck. Selah.
  • Zech 10:5 : 5 ¶ And they shall be as mighty [men], which tread down [their enemies] in the mire of the streets in the battle: and they shall fight, because the LORD [is] with them, and the riders on horses shall be confounded.
  • Mal 4:3 : 3 And ye shall tread down the wicked; for they shall be ashes under the soles of your feet in the day that I shall do [this], saith the LORD of hosts.

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    3For 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.

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

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    6Arise, O LORD, in thine anger, lift up thyself because of the rage of mine enemies: and awake for me [to] the judgment [that] thou hast commanded.

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    7¶ Let mine enemy be as the wicked, and he that riseth up against me as the unrighteous.

  • Ps 57:5-6
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    5Be thou exalted, O God, above the heavens; [let] thy glory [be] above all the earth.

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    4If I have rewarded evil unto him that was at peace with me; (yea, I have delivered him that without cause is mine enemy:)

  • Ps 13:4
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    4Lest mine enemy say, I have prevailed against him; [and] those that trouble me rejoice when I am moved.

  • Ps 71:10-11
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    10For mine enemies speak against me; and they that lay wait for my soul take counsel together,

    11Saying, God hath forsaken him: persecute and take him; for [there is] none to deliver [him].

  • Ps 71:13
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    13Let them be confounded [and] consumed that are adversaries to my soul; let them be covered [with] reproach and dishonour that seek my hurt.

  • Ps 13:2
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    2How long shall I take counsel in my soul, [having] sorrow in my heart daily? how long shall mine enemy be exalted over me?

  • Ps 35:3-4
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    3Draw out also the spear, and stop [the way] against them that persecute me: say unto my soul, I [am] thy salvation.

    4Let 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
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    3For strangers are risen up against me, and oppressors seek after my soul: they have not set God before them. Selah.

  • Ps 35:24
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    24Judge me, O LORD my God, according to thy righteousness; and let them not rejoice over me.

  • Ps 41:5
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    5¶ Mine enemies speak evil of me, When shall he die, and his name perish?

  • Ps 109:20
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    20[Let] this [be] the reward of mine adversaries from the LORD, and of them that speak evil against my soul.

  • Ps 63:9
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    9But those [that] seek my soul, to destroy [it], shall go into the lower parts of the earth.

  • Ps 70:2
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    2Let them be ashamed and confounded that seek after my soul: let them be turned backward, and put to confusion, that desire my hurt.

  • Ps 55:3
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    3Because of the voice of the enemy, because of the oppression of the wicked: for they cast iniquity upon me, and in wrath they hate me.

  • Ps 17:13
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    13Arise, O LORD, disappoint him, cast him down: deliver my soul from the wicked, [which is] thy sword:

  • Ps 7:1-2
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    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:

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  • Ps 40:14
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    14Let 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.

  • Mic 7:10
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    10Then [she that is] mine enemy shall see [it], and shame shall cover her which said unto me, Where is the LORD thy God? mine eyes shall behold her: now shall she be trodden down as the mire of the streets.

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    6Let their way be dark and slippery: and let the angel of the LORD persecute them.

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

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