Psalm 63:9 {62:10}
Good News Translation
Those who are trying to kill me will go down into the world of the dead.

New Revised Standard Version
But those who seek to destroy my life shall go down into the depths of the earth;

Contemporary English Version
All who want to kill me will end up in the ground.

New American Bible
But those who seek my life will come to ruin; they shall go down to the depths of the netherworld!

Douay-Rheims Bible
But they have sought my soul in vain, they shall go into the lower parts of the earth:

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But they have sought my soul in vain, they shall go into the lower parts of the earth:

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Psalm 35:4,26 Let them be confounded and ashamed that seek after my soul. Let them be turned back and be confounded that devise evil against me. . . .

Psalm 38:12 And they that sought my soul used violence. And they that sought evils to me spoke vain things, and studied deceits all the day long.

Psalm 40:14 Let them be confounded and ashamed together, that seek after my soul to take it away. Let them be turned backward and be ashamed that desire evils to me.

Psalm 70:2 Let them be confounded and ashamed that seek my soul:

1 Samuel 25:29 For if a man at any time shall rise, and persecute thee, and seek thy life, the soul of my lord shall be kept, as in the bundle of the living, with the Lord thy God: but the souls of thy enemies shall be whirled, as with the violence and whirling of a sling.

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Psalm 9:17 The wicked shall be turned into hell, all the nations that forget God.

Psalm 55:15,23 Let death come upon them, and let them go down alive into hell. For there is wickedness in their dwellings: in the midst of them. . . .

Psalm 86:13 For thy mercy is great towards me: and thou hast delivered my soul out of the lower hell.

Numbers 16:30-33 But if the Lord do a new thing, and the earth opening her mouth swallow them down, and all things that belong to them, and they go down alive into hell, you shall know that they have blasphemed the Lord. . . .

1 Samuel 28:19 And the Lord also will deliver Israel with thee into the hands of the Philistines: and to morrow thou and thy sons shall be with me: and the Lord will also deliver the army of Israel into the hands of the Philistines.

Job 40:13 Hide them in the dust together, and plunge their faces into the pit.

Isaiah 14:9,15 Hell below was in an uproar to meet thee at thy coming, it stirred up the giants for thee. All the princes of the earth are risen up from their thrones, all the princes of nations. . . .

Isaiah 14:19 But thou art cast out of thy grave, as an unprofitable branch defiled, and wrapped up among them that were slain by the sword, and art gone down to the bottom of the pit, as a rotten carcass.

Ezekiel 32:18-32 Son of man, sing a mournful song for the multitude of Egypt: and cast her down, both her, and the daughters of the mighty nations to the lowest part of the earth, with them that go down into the pit. . . .

Acts 1:25 To take the place of this ministry and apostleship, from which Judas hath by transgression fallen, that he might go to his own place.

Context
Thirsting for God
8My soul hath stuck close to thee: thy right hand hath received me. 9But they have sought my soul in vain, they shall go into the lower parts of the earth:10They shall be delivered into the hands of the sword, they shall be the portions of foxes.…
Cross References
Psalm 40:14
Let them be confounded and ashamed together, that seek after my soul to take it away. Let them be turned backward and be ashamed that desire evils to me.

Psalm 54:3
For strangers have risen up against me; and the mighty have sought after my soul: and they have not set God before their eyes.

Psalm 55:15
Let death come upon them, and let them go down alive into hell. For there is wickedness in their dwellings: in the midst of them.

Psalm 139:15
My bone is not hidden from thee, which thou hast made in secret: and my substance in the lower parts of the earth.

Ezekiel 31:14
For which cause none of the trees by the waters shall exalt themselves for their height: nor shoot up their tops among the thick branches and leaves, neither shall any of them that are watered stand up in their height: for they are all delivered unto death to the lowest parts of the earth, in the midst of the children of men, with them that go down into the pit.

Psalm 63:8
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