Psalms 143:3
"For the enemy hath persecuted my soul; he hath smitten my life down to the ground; he hath made me to dwell in darkness, as those that have been long dead."
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- Lamentations 3:6
"He hath set me in dark places, as they that be dead of old."
Read in chapter → - Psalms 7:1
"O LORD my God, in thee do I put my trust: save me from all them that persecute me, and deliver me:"
Read in chapter → - Psalms 7:5
"Let the enemy persecute my soul, and take it; yea, let him tread down my life upon the earth, and lay mine honour in the dust. Selah."
Read in chapter → - Psalms 17:9
"From the wicked that oppress me, from my deadly enemies, who compass me about."
Read in chapter → - Psalms 142:6
"Attend unto my cry; for I am brought very low: deliver me from my persecutors; for they are stronger than I."
Read in chapter → - 2 Samuel 2:22
"And Abner said again to Asahel, Turn thee aside from following me: wherefore should I smite thee to the ground? how then should I hold up my face to Joab thy brother?"
Read in chapter → - Psalms 88:4
"I am counted with them that go down into the pit: I am as a man that hath no strength:"
Read in chapter → - Psalms 54:3
"For strangers are risen up against me, and oppressors seek after my soul: they have not set God before them. Selah."
Read in chapter → - 2 Samuel 18:11
"And Joab said unto the man that told him, And, behold, thou sawest him, and why didst thou not smite him there to the ground? and I would have given thee ten shekels of silver, and a girdle."
Read in chapter → - Psalms 35:4
"Let them be confounded and put to shame that seek after my soul: let them be turned back and brought to confusion that devise my hurt."
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