Psalms 109:4

King James Version 1769 (Standard Version)

For my love they are my adversaries: but I give myself unto prayer.

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Referenced Verses

  • Ps 38:20 : 20 They also that render evil for good are mine adversaries; because I follow the thing that good is.
  • Luke 23:34 : 34 Then said Jesus, Father, forgive them; for they know not what they do. And they parted his raiment, and cast lots.
  • John 10:32 : 32 Jesus answered them, Many good works have I shewed you from my Father; for which of those works do ye stone me?
  • 2 Cor 12:15 : 15 And I will very gladly spend and be spent for you; though the more abundantly I love you, the less I be loved.
  • Ps 55:16-17 : 16 As for me, I will call upon God; and the LORD shall save me. 17 Evening, and morning, and at noon, will I pray, and cry aloud: and he shall hear my voice.
  • Ps 69:12-13 : 12 They that sit in the gate speak against me; and I was the song of the drunkards. 13 But as for me, my prayer is unto thee, O LORD, in an acceptable time: O God, in the multitude of thy mercy hear me, in the truth of thy salvation.
  • Dan 6:10 : 10 Now when niel knew that the writing was signed, he went into his house; and his windows being open in his chamber toward Jerusalem, he kneeled upon his knees three times a y, and prayed, and gave thanks before his God, as he did aforetime.
  • Luke 6:11-12 : 11 And they were filled with madness; and communed one with another what they might do to Jesus. 12 And it came to pass in those days, that he went out into a mountain to pray, and continued all night in prayer to God.
  • 2 Sam 13:39 : 39 And the soul of king David longed to go forth unto Absalom: for he was comforted concerning Amnon, seeing he was dead.
  • 2 Sam 15:31-32 : 31 And one told David, saying, Ahithophel is among the conspirators with Absalom. And David said, O LORD, I pray thee, turn the counsel of Ahithophel into foolishness. 32 And it came to pass, that when David was come to the top of the mount, where he worshipped God, behold, Hushai the Archite came to meet him with his coat rent, and earth upon his head:
  • Ps 35:7 : 7 For without cause have they hid for me their net in a pit, which without cause they have digged for my soul.
  • Ps 35:12 : 12 They rewarded me evil for good to the spoiling of my soul.

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    5And they have rewarded me evil for good, and hatred for my love.

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    2For the mouth of the wicked and the mouth of the deceitful are opened against me: they have spoken against me with a lying tongue.

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  • Ps 109:20-22
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    20Let this be the reward of mine adversaries from the LORD, and of them that speak evil against my soul.

    21But do thou for me, O GOD the Lord, for thy name's sake: because thy mercy is good, deliver thou me.

    22For I am poor and needy, and my heart is wounded within me.

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    19Consider mine enemies; for they are many; and they hate me with cruel hatred.

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    19But mine enemies are lively, and they are strong: and they that hate me wrongfully are multiplied.

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    20For they speak against thee wickedly, and thine enemies take thy name in vain.

    21Do not I hate them, O LORD, that hate thee? and am not I grieved with those that rise up against thee?

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

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    8Mine enemies reproach me all the day; and they that are mad against me are sworn against me.

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    4They that hate me without a cause are more than the hairs of mine head: they that would destroy me, being mine enemies wrongfully, are mighty: then I restored that which I took not away.

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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 56:5-6
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    5Every day they wrest my words: all their thoughts are against me for evil.

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

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    12They rewarded me evil for good to the spoiling of my soul.

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    41Thou hast also given me the necks of mine enemies, that I might destroy them that hate me.

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    19All my inward friends abhorred me: and they whom I loved are turned against me.

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    7All that hate me whisper together against me: against me do they devise my hurt.

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    4Lest mine enemy say, I have prevailed against him; and those that trouble me rejoice when I am moved.

  • Ps 54:2-3
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    2Hear my prayer, O God; give ear to the words of my mouth.

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    19Let not them that are mine enemies wrongfully rejoice over me: neither let them wink with the eye that hate me without a cause.

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