<<A Psalm of David.>> Plead my cause, O LORD, with them that strive with me: fight against them that fight against me.
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Psalm 43:1 Judge me, O God, and plead my cause against an ungodly nation: O …
Psalm 119:154 Plead my cause, and deliver me: quicken me according to your word.
1 Samuel 24:15 The LORD therefore be judge, and judge between me and you, and see, …
Proverbs 22:23 For the LORD will plead their cause, and spoil the soul of those …
Proverbs 23:11 For their redeemer is mighty; he shall plead their cause with you.
Jeremiah 51:36 Therefore thus said the LORD; Behold, I will plead your cause, and …
Lamentations 3:58 O LORD, you have pleaded the causes of my soul; you have redeemed my life.
Micah 7:9 I will bear the indignation of the LORD, because I have sinned against …
fight
Exodus 14:25 And took off their chariot wheels, that they drove them heavily: …
Joshua 10:42 And all these kings and their land did Joshua take at one time, because …
Nehemiah 4:20 In what place therefore you hear the sound of the trumpet, resort …
Acts 5:39 But if it be of God, you cannot overthrow it; lest haply you be found …
Acts 23:9 And there arose a great cry: and the scribes that were of the Pharisees' …
Take hold of shield and buckler, and stand up for mine help.
Draw out also the spear, and stop the way against them that persecute me: say unto my soul, I am thy salvation.
stop
Psalm 27:2 When the wicked, even my enemies and my foes, came on me to eat up …
Psalm 76:10 Surely the wrath of man shall praise you: the remainder of wrath …
1 Samuel 23:26,27 And Saul went on this side of the mountain, and David and his men …
Job 1:10 Have not you made an hedge about him, and about his house, and about …
Isaiah 8:9,10 Associate yourselves, O you people, and you shall be broken in pieces; …
Isaiah 10:12 Why it shall come to pass, that when the Lord has performed his whole …
Acts 4:28 For to do whatever your hand and your counsel determined before to be done.
say
Psalm 51:12 Restore to me the joy of your salvation; and uphold me with your free spirit.
Psalm 62:7 In God is my salvation and my glory: the rock of my strength, and …
Psalm 91:16 With long life will I satisfy him, and show him my salvation.
Genesis 49:18 I have waited for your salvation, O LORD.
Isaiah 12:2 Behold, God is my salvation; I will trust, and not be afraid: for …
Luke 2:30 For my eyes have seen your salvation,
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.
confounded
Psalm 35:26 Let them be ashamed and brought to confusion together that rejoice at my hurt…
Psalm 31:17,18 Let me not be ashamed, O LORD; for I have called on you: let the …
Psalm 40:14,15 Let them be ashamed and confounded together that seek after my soul …
Psalm 70:2,3 Let them be ashamed and confounded that seek after my soul: let them …
Psalm 71:24 My tongue also shall talk of your righteousness all the day long: …
that
Psalm 38:12 They also that seek after my life lay snares for me: and they that …
1 Samuel 23:23 See therefore, and take knowledge of all the lurking places where …
1 Kings 19:10 And he said, I have been very jealous for the LORD God of hosts: …
Ezekiel 13:19 And will you pollute me among my people for handfuls of barley and …
Matthew 27:1 When the morning was come, all the chief priests and elders of the …
turned
Psalm 129:5 Let them all be confounded and turned back that hate Zion.
Isaiah 37:29 Because your rage against me, and your tumult, is come up into my …
Jeremiah 46:5 Why have I seen them dismayed and turned away back? and their mighty …
John 18:6 As soon then as he had said to them, I am he, they went backward, …
Let them be as chaff before the wind: and let the angel of the LORD chase them.
Let their way be dark and slippery: and let the angel of the LORD persecute them.
For without cause have they hid for me their net in a pit, which without cause they have digged for my soul.
Let destruction come upon him at unawares; and let his net that he hath hid catch himself: into that very destruction let him fall.
Let destruction. All the verbs in these verses (4-8) in the original, are in the future tense, as a prediction, and should probably be so rendered, though as that tense is frequently used in Hebrew for the imperative, most translators, both ancient and modern, have considered them as an imprecation
Psalm 64:7 But God shall shoot at them with an arrow; suddenly shall they be wounded.
Psalm 73:18-20 Surely you did set them in slippery places: you cast them down into …
Proverbs 29:1 He, that being often reproved hardens his neck, shall suddenly be …
Luke 21:34 And take heed to yourselves, lest at any time your hearts be overcharged …
1 Thessalonians 5:3 For when they shall say, Peace and safety; then sudden destruction …
at unawares [heb.] which he knoweth not of
net
Psalm 7:15,16 He made a pit, and dig it, and is fallen into the ditch which he made…
Psalm 57:6 They have prepared a net for my steps; my soul is bowed down: they …
Psalm 141:9,10 Keep me from the snares which they have laid for me, and the gins …
Proverbs 5:22 His own iniquities shall take the wicked himself, and he shall be …
into
1 Samuel 18:17 And Saul said to David, Behold my elder daughter Merab, her will …
1 Samuel 31:2-4 And the Philistines followed hard on Saul and on his sons; and the …
2 Samuel 17:2-4,23 And I will come on him while he is weary and weak handed, and will …
2 Samuel 18:14,15 Then said Joab, I may not tarry thus with you. And he took three …
Esther 7:10 So they hanged Haman on the gallows that he had prepared for Mordecai. …
Matthew 27:3-5 Then Judas, which had betrayed him, when he saw that he was condemned, …
And my soul shall be joyful in the LORD: it shall rejoice in his salvation.
Psalm 13:5 But I have trusted in your mercy; my heart shall rejoice in your salvation.
Psalm 21:1 The king shall joy in your strength, O LORD; and in your salvation …
Psalm 33:21 For our heart shall rejoice in him, because we have trusted in his holy name.
Psalm 48:11 Let mount Zion rejoice, let the daughters of Judah be glad, because …
Psalm 58:10,11 The righteous shall rejoice when he sees the vengeance: he shall …
Psalm 68:1-3 Let God arise, let his enemies be scattered: let them also that hate …
1 Samuel 2:1 And Hannah prayed, and said, My heart rejoices in the LORD, my horn …
Isaiah 61:10 I will greatly rejoice in the LORD, my soul shall be joyful in my …
Habakkuk 3:18 Yet I will rejoice in the LORD, I will joy in the God of my salvation.
Luke 1:46,47 And Mary said, My soul does magnify the Lord…
Galatians 5:22 But the fruit of the Spirit is love, joy, peace, long-suffering, …
Philippians 3:1-3 Finally, my brothers, rejoice in the Lord. To write the same things …
All my bones shall say, LORD, who is like unto thee, which deliverest the poor from him that is too strong for him, yea, the poor and the needy from him that spoileth him?
All
Psalm 22:14 I am poured out like water, and all my bones are out of joint: my …
Psalm 32:3 When I kept silence, my bones waxed old through my roaring all the day long.
Psalm 34:20 He keeps all his bones: not one of them is broken.
Psalm 38:3 There is no soundness in my flesh because of your anger; neither …
Psalm 51:8 Make me to hear joy and gladness; that the bones which you have broken …
Psalm 102:3 For my days are consumed like smoke, and my bones are burned as an hearth.
Job 33:19-25 He is chastened also with pain on his bed, and the multitude of his …
who
Psalm 71:19 Your righteousness also, O God, is very high, who have done great …
Psalm 86:8 Among the gods there is none like to you, O Lord; neither are there …
Psalm 89:6-8 For who in the heaven can be compared to the LORD? who among the …
Exodus 15:11 Who is like to you, O LORD, among the gods? who is like you, glorious …
Isaiah 40:18,25 To whom then will you liken God? or what likeness will you compare to him…
Jeremiah 10:7 Who would not fear you, O King of nations? for to you does it appertain: …
which
Psalm 10:14 You have seen it; for you behold mischief and spite, to requite it …
Psalm 22:24 For he has not despised nor abhorred the affliction of the afflicted; …
Psalm 34:6 This poor man cried, and the LORD heard him, and saved him out of …
Psalm 69:33 For the LORD hears the poor, and despises not his prisoners.
Psalm 102:17-20 He will regard the prayer of the destitute, and not despise their prayer…
Psalm 109:31 For he shall stand at the right hand of the poor, to save him from …
Psalm 140:12 I know that the LORD will maintain the cause of the afflicted, and …
Job 5:15,16 But he saves the poor from the sword, from their mouth, and from …
Proverbs 22:22,23 Rob not the poor, because he is poor: neither oppress the afflicted …
too
Psalm 18:17 He delivered me from my strong enemy, and from them which hated me: …
False witnesses did rise up; they laid to my charge things that I knew not.
False witnesses [heb.] Witnesses of wrong
Psalm 27:12 Deliver me not over to the will of my enemies: for false witnesses …
1 Samuel 24:9 And David said to Saul, Why hear you men's words, saying, Behold, …
1 Samuel 25:10 And Nabal answered David's servants, and said, Who is David? and …
Matthew 26:59,60 Now the chief priests, and elders, and all the council, sought false …
Acts 6:13 And set up false witnesses, which said, This man ceases not to speak …
Acts 24:5,6,12,13 For we have found this man a pestilent fellow, and a mover of sedition …
laid [heb.] asked me
They rewarded me evil for good to the spoiling of my soul.
they.
Psalm 38:20 They also that render evil for good are my adversaries; because I …
Psalm 109:3-5 They compassed me about also with words of hatred; and fought against …
1 Samuel 19:4,5,15 And Jonathan spoke good of David to Saul his father, and said to …
1 Samuel 22:13,14 And Saul said to him, Why have you conspired against me, you and …
Proverbs 17:13 Whoever rewards evil for good, evil shall not depart from his house.
Jeremiah 18:20 Shall evil be recompensed for good? for they have dig a pit for my …
John 10:32 Jesus answered them, Many good works have I showed you from my Father; …
spoiling [heb.] depriving
1 Samuel 20:31-33 For as long as the son of Jesse lives on the ground, you shall not …
Luke 23:21-23 But they cried, saying, Crucify him, crucify him…
my soul. Or, `my life,' as the word nephesh frequently denotes
But as for me, when they were sick, my clothing was sackcloth: I humbled my soul with fasting; and my prayer returned into mine own bosom.
when
Psalm 69:10,11 When I wept, and chastened my soul with fasting, that was to my reproach…
Job 30:25 Did not I weep for him that was in trouble? was not my soul grieved …
Matthew 5:44 But I say to you, Love your enemies, bless them that curse you, do …
Romans 12:14,15 Bless them which persecute you: bless, and curse not…
humbled. or, afflicted
Leviticus 16:29,31 And this shall be a statute for ever to you: that in the seventh …
Matthew 9:14,15 Then came to him the disciples of John, saying, Why do we and the …
my prayer
Matthew 10:13 And if the house be worthy, let your peace come on it: but if it …
Luke 10:6 And if the son of peace be there, your peace shall rest on it: if …
I behaved myself as though he had been my friend or brother: I bowed down heavily, as one that mourneth for his mother.
I behaved [heb.] I walked as a friend, as brother to me
I bowed
2 Samuel 1:11,12,17 Then David took hold on his clothes, and rent them; and likewise …
Luke 19:41,42 And when he was come near, he beheld the city, and wept over it…
as one. Or, `as a mourning mother,' []
Genesis 24:67 And Isaac brought her into his mother Sarah's tent, and took Rebekah, …
But in mine adversity they rejoiced, and gathered themselves together: yea, the abjects gathered themselves together against me, and I knew it not; they did tear me, and ceased not:
in mine
Psalm 35:25,26 Let them not say in their hearts, Ah, so would we have it: let them …
Psalm 41:8 An evil disease, say they, sticks fast to him: and now that he lies …
Psalm 71:10,11 For my enemies speak against me; and they that lay wait for my soul …
Job 31:29 If I rejoice at the destruction of him that hated me, or lifted up …
Proverbs 17:5 Whoever mocks the poor reproaches his Maker: and he that is glad …
Proverbs 24:17,18 Rejoice not when your enemy falls, and let not your heart be glad …
adversity [heb.] halting
Psalm 38:17 For I am ready to halt, and my sorrow is continually before me.
Jeremiah 20:10 For I heard the defaming of many, fear on every side. Report, say …
1 Corinthians 13:6 Rejoices not in iniquity, but rejoices in the truth;
the objects
Psalm 22:16 For dogs have compassed me: the assembly of the wicked have enclosed …
Psalm 69:12 They that sit in the gate speak against me; and I was the song of the drunkards.
Job 30:1-12 But now they that are younger than I have me in derision, whose fathers …
Matthew 27:27-30,39-44 Then the soldiers of the governor took Jesus into the common hall, …
Acts 17:5 But the Jews which believed not, moved with envy, took to them certain …
I knew
Psalm 35:8 Let destruction come on him at unawares; and let his net that he …
they
Psalm 7:2 Lest he tear my soul like a lion, rending it in pieces, while there …
Psalm 57:4 My soul is among lions: and I lie even among them that are set on …
Job 16:9 He tears me in his wrath, who hates me: he gnashes on me with his …
With hypocritical mockers in feasts, they gnashed upon me with their teeth.
Lord, how long wilt thou look on? rescue my soul from their destructions, my darling from the lions.
how
Psalm 6:3 My soul is also sore vexed: but you, O LORD, how long?
Psalm 13:1,2 How long will you forget me, O LORD? for ever? how long will you …
Psalm 74:9,10 We see not our signs: there is no more any prophet: neither is there …
Psalm 89:46 How long, LORD? will you hide yourself for ever? shall your wrath …
Psalm 94:3,4 LORD, how long shall the wicked, how long shall the wicked triumph…
look
Psalm 10:14 You have seen it; for you behold mischief and spite, to requite it …
Habakkuk 1:13 You are of purer eyes than to behold evil, and can not look on iniquity: …
rescue
Psalm 22:20,21 Deliver my soul from the sword; my darling from the power of the dog…
Psalm 57:4 My soul is among lions: and I lie even among them that are set on …
Psalm 69:14,15 Deliver me out of the mire, and let me not sink: let me be delivered …
Psalm 142:6,7 Attend to my cry; for I am brought very low: deliver me from my persecutors; …
darling [heb.] only one
I will give thee thanks in the great congregation: I will praise thee among much people.
give
Psalm 22:22-25,31 I will declare your name to my brothers: in the middle of the congregation …
Psalm 40:9,10 I have preached righteousness in the great congregation: see, I have …
Psalm 69:30-34 I will praise the name of God with a song, and will magnify him with …
Psalm 111:1 Praise you the LORD. I will praise the LORD with my whole heart, …
Psalm 116:14,18 I will pay my vows to the LORD now in the presence of all his people…
Hebrews 2:12 Saying, I will declare your name to my brothers, in the middle of …
praise
Psalm 67:1-4 God be merciful to us, and bless us; and cause his face to shine on us; Selah…
Psalm 117:1-2 O praise the LORD, all you nations: praise him, all you people…
Psalm 138:4,5 All the kings of the earth shall praise you, O LORD, when they hear …
Romans 15:9 And that the Gentiles might glorify God for his mercy; as it is written, …
much [heb.] strong
Isaiah 25:3 Therefore shall the strong people glorify you, the city of the terrible …
Let not them that are mine enemies wrongfully rejoice over me: neither let them wink with the eye that hate me without a cause.
Let
Psalm 35:15 But in my adversity they rejoiced, and gathered themselves together: …
Psalm 13:4 Lest my enemy say, I have prevailed against him; and those that trouble …
Psalm 25:2 O my God, I trust in you: let me not be ashamed, let not my enemies …
Psalm 38:16 For I said, Hear me, lest otherwise they should rejoice over me: …
John 16:20-22 Truly, truly, I say to you, That you shall weep and lament, but the …
Revelation 11:7-10 And when they shall have finished their testimony, the beast that …
wrongfully [heb.] falsely
Psalm 38:19 But my enemies are lively, and they are strong: and they that hate …
wink
Job 15:12 Why does your heart carry you away? and what do your eyes wink at,
Proverbs 6:13 He winks with his eyes, he speaks with his feet, he teaches with his fingers;
Proverbs 10:10 He that winks with the eye causes sorrow: but a prating fool shall fall.
that hate
Psalm 69:4 They that hate me without a cause are more than the hairs of my head: …
Psalm 109:3 They compassed me about also with words of hatred; and fought against …
Psalm 119:161 Princes have persecuted me without a cause: but my heart stands in …
1 Samuel 24:11,12 Moreover, my father, see, yes, see the skirt of your robe in my hand: …
Lamentations 3:52 My enemies chased me sore, like a bird, without cause.
John 15:25 But this comes to pass, that the word might be fulfilled that is …
For they speak not peace: but they devise deceitful matters against them that are quiet in the land.
For
Psalm 120:5-7 Woe is me, that I sojourn in Mesech, that I dwell in the tents of Kedar!…
but
Psalm 31:13 For I have heard the slander of many: fear was on every side: while …
Psalm 36:3,4 The words of his mouth are iniquity and deceit: he has left off to …
Psalm 38:12 They also that seek after my life lay snares for me: and they that …
Psalm 52:2 The tongue devises mischiefs; like a sharp razor, working deceitfully.
Psalm 64:4-6 That they may shoot in secret at the perfect: suddenly do they shoot …
Psalm 140:2-5 Which imagine mischiefs in their heart; continually are they gathered …
Jeremiah 11:19 But I was like a lamb or an ox that is brought to the slaughter; …
Daniel 6:5 Then said these men, We shall not find any occasion against this …
Matthew 26:4 And consulted that they might take Jesus by subtlety, and kill him.
Acts 23:15 Now therefore you with the council signify to the chief captain that …
Acts 25:3 And desired favor against him, that he would send for him to Jerusalem, …
quiet
Matthew 12:19,24 He shall not strive, nor cry; neither shall any man hear his voice …
1 Peter 2:22,23 Who did no sin, neither was guile found in his mouth…
Yea, they opened their mouth wide against me, and said, Aha, aha, our eye hath seen it.
This thou hast seen, O LORD: keep not silence: O Lord, be not far from me.
This
Exodus 3:7 And the LORD said, I have surely seen the affliction of my people …
Acts 7:34 I have seen, I have seen the affliction of my people which is in …
keep
Psalm 28:1 To you will I cry, O LORD my rock; be not silent to me: lest, if …
Psalm 39:12 Hear my prayer, O LORD, and give ear to my cry; hold not your peace …
Psalm 50:21 These things have you done, and I kept silence; you thought that …
Psalm 83:1 Keep not you silence, O God: hold not your peace, and be not still, O God.
be
Psalm 10:1 Why stand you afar off, O LORD? why hide you yourself in times of trouble?
Psalm 22:11,19 Be not far from me; for trouble is near; for there is none to help…
Psalm 38:21 Forsake me not, O LORD: O my God, be not far from me.
Psalm 71:12 O God, be not far from me: O my God, make haste for my help.
Isaiah 65:6 Behold, it is written before me: I will not keep silence, but will …
Stir up thyself, and awake to my judgment, even unto my cause, my God and my Lord.
Stir
Psalm 7:6 Arise, O LORD, in your anger, lift up yourself because of the rage …
Psalm 44:23 Awake, why sleep you, O Lord? arise, cast us not off for ever.
Psalm 80:2 Before Ephraim and Benjamin and Manasseh stir up your strength, and …
Isaiah 51:9 Awake, awake, put on strength, O arm of the LORD; awake, as in the …
my God
Psalm 89:26 He shall cry to me, You are my father, my God, and the rock of my salvation.
Psalm 142:5 I cried to you, O LORD: I said, You are my refuge and my portion …
John 20:28 And Thomas answered and said to him, My LORD and my God.
Judge me, O LORD my God, according to thy righteousness; and let them not rejoice over me.
Let them not say in their hearts, Ah, so would we have it: let them not say, We have swallowed him up.
say
Psalm 27:12 Deliver me not over to the will of my enemies: for false witnesses …
Psalm 28:3 Draw me not away with the wicked, and with the workers of iniquity, …
Psalm 70:3 Let them be turned back for a reward of their shame that say, Aha, aha.
Psalm 74:8 They said in their hearts, Let us destroy them together: they have …
Job 1:5 And it was so, when the days of their feasting were gone about, that …
Mark 2:6,8 But there was certain of the scribes sitting there, and reasoning …
Ah [heb.] Ah, Ah, our soul
so
Psalm 140:8 Grant not, O LORD, the desires of the wicked: further not his wicked …
Exodus 15:9 The enemy said, I will pursue, I will overtake, I will divide the …
Matthew 27:43 He trusted in God; let him deliver him now, if he will have him: …
We have
Psalm 56:1,2 Be merciful to me, O God: for man would swallow me up; he fighting …
Psalm 57:3 He shall send from heaven, and save me from the reproach of him that …
Psalm 124:3 Then they had swallowed us up quick, when their wrath was kindled against us:
2 Samuel 20:19 I am one of them that are peaceable and faithful in Israel: you seek …
Lamentations 2:16 All your enemies have opened their mouth against you: they hiss and …
1 Corinthians 15:54 So when this corruptible shall have put on incorruption, and this …
Let them be ashamed and brought to confusion together that rejoice at mine hurt: let them be clothed with shame and dishonour that magnify themselves against me.
ashamed
Psalm 35:4 Let them be confounded and put to shame that seek after my soul: …
Psalm 40:14,15 Let them be ashamed and confounded together that seek after my soul …
Psalm 71:13 Let them be confounded and consumed that are adversaries to my soul; …
Psalm 129:5 Let them all be confounded and turned back that hate Zion.
Psalm 132:18 His enemies will I clothe with shame: but on himself shall his crown flourish.
Isaiah 41:11 Behold, all they that were incensed against you shall be ashamed …
Isaiah 65:13-15 Therefore thus said the Lord GOD, Behold, my servants shall eat, …
clothed
Psalm 109:28,29 Let them curse, but bless you: when they arise, let them be ashamed; …
Psalm 132:18 His enemies will I clothe with shame: but on himself shall his crown flourish.
Job 8:22 They that hate you shall be clothed with shame; and the dwelling …
1 Peter 5:5 Likewise, you younger, submit yourselves to the elder. Yes, all of …
magnify
Psalm 38:16 For I said, Hear me, lest otherwise they should rejoice over me: …
Psalm 55:12 For it was not an enemy that reproached me; then I could have borne it…
Job 19:5 If indeed you will magnify yourselves against me, and plead against …
Jeremiah 48:26 Make you him drunken: for he magnified himself against the LORD: …
Daniel 11:36 And the king shall do according to his will; and he shall exalt himself, …
Let them shout for joy, and be glad, that favour my righteous cause: yea, let them say continually, Let the LORD be magnified, which hath pleasure in the prosperity of his servant.
shout
Psalm 40:16 Let all those that seek you rejoice and be glad in you: let such …
Psalm 68:3 But let the righteous be glad; let them rejoice before God: yes, …
Psalm 132:9,16 Let your priests be clothed with righteousness; and let your saints …
Psalm 142:7 Bring my soul out of prison, that I may praise your name: the righteous …
Isaiah 66:10,11 Rejoice you with Jerusalem, and be glad with her, all you that love …
John 16:22 And you now therefore have sorrow: but I will see you again, and …
Romans 12:15 Rejoice with them that do rejoice, and weep with them that weep.
1 Corinthians 12:26 And whether one member suffer, all the members suffer with it; or …
righteous cause [heb.] righteousness
Proverbs 8:18 Riches and honor are with me; yes, durable riches and righteousness.
say
Psalm 70:4 Let all those that seek you rejoice and be glad in you: and let such …
which
Psalm 149:4 For the LORD takes pleasure in his people: he will beautify the meek …
Jeremiah 32:40,41 And I will make an everlasting covenant with them, that I will not …
Zephaniah 3:14,17 Sing, O daughter of Zion; shout, O Israel; be glad and rejoice with …
And my tongue shall speak of thy righteousness and of thy praise all the day long.
Psalm 34:1 I will bless the LORD at all times: his praise shall continually be in my mouth.
Psalm 50:15 And call on me in the day of trouble: I will deliver you, and you …
Psalm 51:14,15 Deliver me from bloodguiltiness, O God, you God of my salvation: …
Psalm 71:24 My tongue also shall talk of your righteousness all the day long: …
Psalm 104:33,34 I will sing to the LORD as long as I live: I will sing praise to …
Psalm 145:1,2,5,21 I will extol you, my God, O king; and I will bless your name for …
