Psalms 86:17

KJV1611 – Modern English

Show me a sign for good, that they who hate me may see it and be ashamed, because You, LORD, have helped me and comforted me.

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  • Ps 41:10-11 : 10 But You, O LORD, be merciful to me and raise me up, that I may repay them. 11 By this I know that You favor me, because my enemy does not triumph over me.
  • Judg 6:17 : 17 And he said unto him, If now I have found grace in your sight, then show me a sign that you talk with me.
  • Ps 40:1 : 1 I waited patiently for the LORD; and He inclined to me and heard my cry.
  • Ps 71:20-21 : 20 You, who have shown me great and severe troubles, shall revive me again, and shall bring me up again from the depths of the earth. 21 You shall increase my greatness, and comfort me on every side.
  • 1 Cor 5:5 : 5 Deliver such a one to Satan for the destruction of the flesh, that the spirit may be saved in the day of the Lord Jesus.
  • Isa 38:22 : 22 Hezekiah also had said, What is the sign that I shall go up to the house of the LORD?
  • Ps 74:9 : 9 We do not see our signs: there is no more any prophet; neither is there among us any who knows how long.
  • Ps 109:29 : 29 Let my adversaries be clothed with shame, and let them cover themselves with their own confusion, as with a cloak.
  • Ps 71:9-9 : 9 Do not cast me off in the time of old age; do not forsake me when my strength fails. 10 For my enemies speak against me; and those who lie in wait for my soul take counsel together, 11 Saying, God has forsaken him; pursue and take him, for there is none to deliver him. 12 O God, be not far from me; O my God, make haste to help me. 13 Let them be confounded and consumed who are adversaries to my soul; let them be covered with reproach and dishonor who seek my hurt.
  • Mic 7:8-9 : 8 Do not rejoice against me, O my enemy; when I fall, I shall arise; when I sit in darkness, the LORD shall be a light to me. 9 I will bear the indignation of the LORD, because I have sinned against him, until he pleads my cause and executes judgment for me; he will bring me forth to the light, and I shall behold his righteousness. 10 Then she who is my enemy shall see it, and shame shall cover her who said to me, Where is the LORD your God? My eyes shall behold her; now she shall be trampled down as the mire of the streets.

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    7The LORD takes my part with those who help me; therefore, I will see my desire upon those who hate me.

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    7Show your marvelous lovingkindness, O you who save by your right hand those who put their trust in you from those who rise up against them.

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    16Turn to me, and have mercy upon me; give Your strength to Your servant, and save the son of Your maidservant.

  • Ps 31:7
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    7I will be glad and rejoice in your mercy: for you have considered my trouble; you have known my soul in adversities;

  • Ps 85:7
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    7Show us Your mercy, O LORD, and grant us Your salvation.

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    10Hear, O LORD, and have mercy upon me: LORD, be my helper.

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    16Make your face to shine upon your servant: save me for your mercies' sake.

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    13Have mercy upon me, O LORD; consider my trouble which I suffer from those who hate me, you who lift me up from the gates of death:

  • Ps 109:20-21
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    20Let this be the reward of my adversaries from the LORD, and of those who speak evil against my soul.

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    7But You have saved us from our enemies, and have put them to shame that hated us.

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    13Be pleased, O LORD, to deliver me: O LORD, make haste to help me.

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    16Turn to me and have mercy on me, for I am desolate and afflicted.

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    10But You, O LORD, be merciful to me and raise me up, that I may repay them.

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  • Ps 86:13-14
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    13For great is Your mercy toward me, and You have delivered my soul from the depths of hell.

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    69%

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    22Make haste to help me, O Lord my salvation.

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