Verse 1

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

Referenced Verses

  • Ps 16:1 : 1 > Preserve me, God, for in you do I take refuge.
  • Ps 57:1-3 : 1 > Be merciful to me, God, be merciful to me, For my soul takes refuge in you. Yes, in the shadow of your wings, I will take refuge, Until disaster has passed. 2 I cry out to God Most High, To God who accomplishes my requests for me. 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 69:13-16 : 13 But as for me, my prayer is to you, Yahweh, in an acceptable time. God, in the abundance of your loving kindness, answer me in the truth of your salvation. 14 Deliver me out of the mire, and don't let me sink. Let me be delivered from those who hate me, and out of the deep waters. 15 Don't let the flood waters overwhelm me, Neither let the deep swallow me up. Don't let the pit shut its mouth on me. 16 Answer me, Yahweh, for your loving kindness is good. According to the multitude of your tender mercies, turn to me.
  • Ps 27:2 : 2 When evil-doers came at me to eat up my flesh, Even my adversaries and my foes, they stumbled and fell.
  • Ps 31:9 : 9 Have mercy on me, Yahweh, for I am in distress. My eye, my soul, and my body waste away with grief.
  • Ps 35:25 : 25 Don't let them say in their heart, "Aha! That's the way we want it!" Don't let them say, "We have swallowed him up!"
  • Ps 106:17 : 17 The earth opened and swallowed up Dathan, And covered the company of Abiram.
  • Ps 124:3 : 3 Then they would have swallowed us up alive, When their wrath was kindled against us;
  • Ps 136:10 : 10 To him who struck down the Egyptian firstborn; For his loving kindness endures forever;
  • Ps 136:15 : 15 But overthrew Pharaoh and his host in the Red Sea; For his loving kindness endures forever:
  • Ps 136:17-20 : 17 To him who struck great kings; For his loving kindness endures forever; 18 And killed mighty kings; For his loving kindness endures forever: 19 Sihon king of the Amorites; For his loving kindness endures forever; 20 Og king of Bashan; For his loving kindness endures forever;
  • Ps 143:12 : 12 In your loving kindness, cut off my enemies, And destroy all those who afflict my soul, For I am your servant.
  • Prov 1:12 : 12 Let's swallow them up alive like Sheol, And whole, like those who go down into the pit.
  • Lam 2:2 : 2 The Lord has swallowed up all the habitations of Jacob, and has not pitied: He has thrown down in his wrath the strongholds of the daughter of Judah; He has brought them down to the ground; he has profaned the kingdom and the princes of it.
  • Lam 2:5 : 5 The Lord is become as an enemy, he has swallowed up Israel; He has swallowed up all her palaces, he has destroyed his strongholds; He has multiplied in the daughter of Judah mourning and lamentation.
  • Lam 2:16 : 16 All your enemies have opened their mouth wide against you; They hiss and gnash the teeth; they say, We have swallowed her up; Certainly this is the day that we looked for; we have found, we have seen it.
  • Hos 8:8 : 8 Israel is swallowed up. Now they are among the nations like a worthless thing.
  • 1 Cor 15:54 : 54 But when this corruptible will have put on incorruption, and this mortal will have put on immortality, then what is written will happen: "Death is swallowed up in victory."
  • Ps 58:1 : 1 > Do you indeed speak righteousness, silent ones? Do you judge blamelessly, you sons of men?
  • Ps 59:1 : 1 > Deliver me from my enemies, my God. Set me on high from those who rise up against me.
  • Ps 59:10 : 10 My God will go before me with his loving kindness. God will let me look at my enemies in triumph.
  • Ps 60:1 : 1 > God, you have rejected us. You have broken us down. You have been angry. Restore us, again.
  • Ps 21:9 : 9 You will make them as a fiery furnace in the time of your anger. Yahweh will swallow them up in his wrath. The fire shall devour them.
  • 1 Sam 21:11-15 : 11 The servants of Achish said to him, "Isn't this David the king of the land? Didn't they sing one to another about him in dances, saying, 'Saul has slain his thousands, David his ten thousands?'" 12 David laid up these words in his heart, and was very afraid of Achish the king of Gath. 13 He changed his behavior before them, and feigned himself mad in their hands, and scrabbled on the doors of the gate, and let his spittle fall down on his beard. 14 Then said Achish to his servants, Look, you see the man is mad; why then have you brought him to me? 15 Do I lack madmen, that you have brought this fellow to play the madman in my presence? shall this fellow come into my house?
  • 1 Sam 29:4 : 4 But the princes of the Philistines were angry with him; and the princes of the Philistines said to him, Make the man return, that he may go back to his place where you have appointed him, and let him not go down with us to battle, lest in the battle he become an adversary to us: for with what should this [fellow] reconcile himself to his lord? should it not be with the heads of these men?