Psalms 56:2

World English Bible (2000)

My enemies want to swallow me up all day long, for they are many who fight proudly against me.

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Referenced Verses

  • Ps 3:1 : 1 Yahweh, how my adversaries have increased! Many are those who rise up against me.
  • Ps 9:2 : 2 I will be glad and rejoice in you. I will sing praise to your name, O Most High.
  • Ps 35:1 : 1 Contend, Yahweh, with those who contend with me. Fight against those who fight against me.
  • Ps 54:5 : 5 He will repay the evil to my enemies. Destroy them in your truth.
  • Ps 57:3 : 3 He will send from heaven, and save me, he rebukes the one who is pursuing me. Selah. God will send out his loving kindness and his truth.
  • Ps 91:1 : 1 He who dwells in the secret place of the Most High will rest in the shadow of the Almighty.
  • Ps 92:1 : 1 It is a good thing to give thanks to Yahweh, to sing praises to your name, Most High;
  • Ps 92:8 : 8 But you, Yahweh, are on high forevermore.
  • Ps 93:4 : 4 Above the voices of many waters, the mighty breakers of the sea, Yahweh on high is mighty.
  • Ps 118:10-12 : 10 All the nations surrounded me, but in the name of Yahweh, I cut them off. 11 They surrounded me, yes, they surrounded me. In the name of Yahweh I indeed cut them off. 12 They surrounded me like bees. They are quenched like the burning thorns. In the name of Yahweh I cut them off.
  • Isa 57:15 : 15 For thus says the high and lofty One who inhabits eternity, whose name is Holy: "I dwell in the high and holy place, with him also who is of a contrite and humble spirit, to revive the spirit of the humble, and to revive the heart of the contrite.
  • Dan 5:18 : 18 You, king, the Most High God gave Nebuchadnezzar your father the kingdom, and greatness, and glory, and majesty:
  • Mic 6:6 : 6 How shall I come before Yahweh, and bow myself before the exalted God? Shall I come before him with burnt offerings, with calves a year old?
  • Acts 4:25-27 : 25 who by the mouth of your servant, David, said, 'Why do the nations rage, and the peoples plot a vain thing? 26 The kings of the earth take a stand, and the rulers take council together, against the Lord, and against his Christ.' 27 "For truly, in this city against your holy servant, Jesus, whom you anointed, both Herod and Pontius Pilate, with the Gentiles and the people of Israel, were gathered together
  • Rev 16:14 : 14 for they are spirits of demons, performing signs; which go forth to the kings of the whole inhabited earth, to gather them together for the war of that great day of God, the Almighty.

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    1Be merciful to me, God, for man wants to swallow me up. All day long, he attacks and oppresses me.

  • Ps 102:8
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    8My enemies reproach me all day. Those who are mad at me use my name as a curse.

  • Ps 56:5-6
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    79%

    5All day long they twist my words. All their thoughts are against me for evil.

    6They conspire and lurk, watching my steps, they are eager to take my life.

  • Ps 25:19
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    19Consider my enemies, for they are many. They hate me with cruel hatred.

  • Ps 71:10
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    10For my enemies talk about me. Those who watch for my soul conspire together,

  • Ps 27:2
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    2When evildoers came at me to eat up my flesh, even my adversaries and my foes, they stumbled and fell.

  • Ps 59:1
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    1Deliver me from my enemies, my God. Set me on high from those who rise up against me.

  • Ps 13:2
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    2How long shall I take counsel in my soul, having sorrow in my heart every day? How long shall my enemy triumph over me?

  • Ps 3:1-2
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    1Yahweh, how my adversaries have increased! Many are those who rise up against me.

    2Many there are who say of my soul, "There is no help for him in God." Selah.

  • Ps 38:19
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    19But my enemies are vigorous and many. Those who hate me without reason are numerous.

  • Lam 3:62
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    62The lips of those that rose up against me, and their device against me all the day.

  • Ps 42:10
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    10As with a sword in my bones, my adversaries reproach me, while they continually ask me, "Where is your God?"

  • Ps 41:5
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    5My enemies speak evil against me: "When will he die, and his name perish?"

  • Ps 54:3
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    3For strangers have risen up against me. Violent men have sought after my soul. They haven't set God before them. Selah.

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    9from the wicked who oppress me, my deadly enemies, who surround me.

  • 2 Sam 22:41
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    41You have also made my enemies turn their backs to me, that I might cut off those who hate me.

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    3Because of the voice of the enemy, Because of the oppression of the wicked. For they bring suffering on me. In anger they hold a grudge against me.

  • Ps 56:3
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    3When I am afraid, I will put my trust in you.

  • Job 16:9-10
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    9He has torn me in his wrath, and persecuted me. He has gnashed on me with his teeth. My adversary sharpens his eyes on me.

    10They have gaped on me with their mouth. They have struck me on the cheek reproachfully. They gather themselves together against me.

  • Ps 86:14
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    14God, the proud have risen up against me. A company of violent men have sought after my soul, and they don't hold regard for you before them.

  • Ps 13:4
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    4Lest my enemy say, "I have prevailed against him;" Lest my adversaries rejoice when I fall.

  • 2 Sam 22:49
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    49who brings me away from my enemies. Yes, you lift me up above those who rise up against me. You deliver me from the violent man.

  • Ps 18:40
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    40You have also made my enemies turn their backs to me, that I might cut off those who hate me.

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    3For, behold, they lie in wait for my soul. The mighty gather themselves together against me, not for my disobedience, nor for my sin, Yahweh.

  • Ps 9:3
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    3When my enemies turn back, they stumble and perish in your presence.

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    21They have heard that I sigh; there is none to comfort me; All my enemies have heard of my trouble; they are glad that you have done it: You will bring the day that you have proclaimed, and they shall be like me.

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    13Let my accusers be disappointed and consumed. Let them be covered with disgrace and scorn who want to harm me.

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    72%

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    9Then my enemies shall turn back in the day that I call. I know this, that God is for me.

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    15My times are in your hand. Deliver me from the hand of my enemies, and from those who persecute me.

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    17They came around me like water all day long. They completely engulfed me.

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