Psalms 71:4

NET Bible® (New English Translation)

My God, rescue me from the power of the wicked, from the hand of the cruel oppressor!

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Referenced Verses

  • 2 Sam 16:21-22 : 21 Ahithophel replied to Absalom,“Sleep with your father’s concubines whom he left to care for the palace. All Israel will hear that you have made yourself repulsive to your father. Then your followers will be motivated to support you.” 22 So they pitched a tent for Absalom on the roof, and Absalom slept with his father’s concubines in the sight of all Israel.
  • 2 Sam 17:1-2 : 1 The Death of Ahithophel Ahithophel said to Absalom,“Let me pick out twelve thousand men. Then I will go and pursue David this very night. 2 When I catch up with him he will be exhausted and worn out. I will rout him, and the entire army that is with him will flee. I will kill only the king
  • 2 Sam 17:12-14 : 12 We will come against him wherever he happens to be found. We will descend on him like the dew falls on the ground. Neither he nor any of the men who are with him will be spared alive– not one of them! 13 If he regroups in a city, all Israel will take up ropes to that city and drag it down to the valley, so that not a single pebble will be left there!” 14 Then Absalom and all the men of Israel said,“The advice of Hushai the Arkite sounds better than the advice of Ahithophel.” Now the LORD had decided to frustrate the sound advice of Ahithophel, so that the LORD could bring disaster on Absalom.
  • 2 Sam 17:21 : 21 After the men had left, Ahimaaz and Jonathan climbed out of the well. Then they left and informed King David. They advised David,“Get up and cross the stream quickly, for Ahithophel has devised a plan to catch you.”
  • Ps 17:8-9 : 8 Protect me as you would protect the pupil of your eye! Hide me in the shadow of your wings! 9 Protect me from the wicked men who attack me, my enemies who crowd around me for the kill.
  • Ps 17:13 : 13 Rise up, LORD! Confront him! Knock him down! Use your sword to rescue me from the wicked man!
  • Ps 59:1-2 : 1 For the music director; according to the al-tashcheth style; a prayer of David, written when Saul sent men to surround his house and murder him. Deliver me from my enemies, my God! Protect me from those who attack me! 2 Deliver me from evildoers! Rescue me from violent men!
  • Ps 140:1-4 : 1 For the music director; a psalm of David. O LORD, rescue me from wicked men! Protect me from violent men, 2 who plan ways to harm me. All day long they stir up conflict. 3 Their tongues wound like a serpent; a viper’s venom is behind their lips.(Selah) 4 O LORD, shelter me from the power of the wicked! Protect me from violent men, who plan to knock me over.

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