Verse 3

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

Referenced Verses

  • Ps 86:14 : 14 God, 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 36:1 : 1 An oracle is within my heart about the disobedience of the wicked: "There is no fear of God before his eyes."
  • Ps 40:14 : 14 Let them be disappointed and confounded together who seek after my soul to destroy it. Let them be turned backward and brought to dishonor who delight in my hurt.
  • Ps 53:4 : 4 Have the workers of iniquity no knowledge, who eat up my people as they eat bread, and don't call on God?
  • Ps 59:3-5 : 3 For, behold, they lie in wait for my soul. The mighty gather themselves together against me, not for my disobedience, nor for my sin, Yahweh. 4 I have done no wrong, yet they are ready to attack me. Rise up, behold, and help me! 5 You, Yahweh God of Armies, the God of Israel, rouse yourself to punish the nations. Show no mercy to the wicked traitors. Selah.
  • Ps 69:8 : 8 I have become a stranger to my brothers, an alien to my mother's children.
  • Matt 27:20-23 : 20 Now the chief priests and the elders persuaded the multitudes to ask for Barabbas, and destroy Jesus. 21 But the governor answered them, "Which of the two do you want me to release to you?" They said, "Barabbas!" 22 Pilate said to them, "What then shall I do to Jesus, who is called Christ?" They all said to him, "Let him be crucified!" 23 But the governor said, "Why? What evil has he done?" But they cried out exceedingly, saying, "Let him be crucified!"
  • John 16:3 : 3 They will do these things because they have not known the Father, nor me.
  • Job 19:13-15 : 13 "He has put my brothers far from me. My acquaintances are wholly estranged from me. 14 My relatives have gone away. My familiar friends have forgotten me. 15 Those who dwell in my house, and my maids, count me for a stranger. I am an alien in their sight.
  • Ps 16:8 : 8 I have set Yahweh always before me. Because he is at my right hand, I shall not be moved.
  • Ps 22:16 : 16 For dogs have surrounded me. A company of evildoers have enclosed me. They have pierced my hands and feet.