Psalms 143:3
The evil man has gone after my soul; my life is crushed down to the earth: he has put me in the dark, like those who have long been dead.
--------------------
Psalms 143:3
The evil man has gone after my soul; my life is crushed down to the earth: he has put me in the dark, like those who have long been dead.
--------------------
1 Samuel 30:6
And David was greatly troubled; for the people were talking of stoning him, because their hearts were bitter, every man sorrowing for his sons and his daughters: but David made himself strong in the Lord his God.
Psalms 35:14
My behaviour was as if it had been my friend or my brother: I was bent low in grief like one whose mother is dead.
Psalms 42:5
Why are you crushed down, O my soul? and why are you troubled in me? put your hope in God; for I will again give him praise who is my help and my God.
Psalms 42:6
My soul is crushed down in me, so I will keep you in mind; from the land of Jordan and of the Hermons, from the hill Mizar.
Psalms 42:10
The cruel words of my haters are like a crushing of my bones; when they say to me every day, Where is your God?
Psalms 42:11
Why are you crushed down, O my soul? and why are you troubled in me? put your hope in God; for I will again give him praise who is my help and my God.
Psalms 43:5
Why are you crushed down, O my soul? and why are you troubled in me? put your hope in God, for I will again give him praise who is my help and my God.
Psalms 61:2
From the end of the earth will I send up my cry to you, when my heart is overcome: take me to the rock which is over-high for me.
Psalms 142:2
I put all my sorrows before him; and made clear to him all my trouble.
Psalms 142:3
When my spirit is overcome, your eyes are on my goings; nets have been secretly placed in the way in which I go.
Mark 14:33
And he took with him Peter and James and John, and grief and great trouble came on him.
Mark 14:34
And he said to them, My soul is very sad, even to death: be here a little time, and keep watch.
-----
2 Samuel 2:22
Then again Abner said to Asahel, Go to one side, do not keep on coming after me: why will you make me put an end to you? for then I will be shamed before your brother Joab.
-----
2 Samuel 16:11
And David said to Abishai and to all his servants, You see how my son, the offspring of my body, has made designs against my life: how much more then may this Benjamite do so? Let him be, and let him go on cursing; for the Lord has given him orders.
2 Samuel 17:2
And I will come up with him when he is tired and feeble, and make him full of fear: and all the people with him will go in flight; and I will make an attack on the king only:
2 Samuel 17:3
And I will make all the people come back to you as a bride comes back to her husband: it is the life of only one man you are going after; so all the people will be at peace.
2 Samuel 17:4
And the saying was pleasing to Absalom and to the responsible men of Israel.
Psalms 3:1
A Psalm. Of David. When he went in flight from Absalom his son. Lord, how greatly are they increased who make attacks on me! in great numbers they come against me.
Psalms 3:2
Unnumbered are those who say of my soul, There is no help for him in God. (Selah.)
Psalms 25:19
See how those who are against me are increased, for bitter is their hate of me.
Psalms 27:2
When evil-doers, even my haters, came on me to put an end to me, they were broken and put to shame.
Psalms 27:12
Do not give me into their hands, because false witnesses have come out against me, and men breathing destruction.
Psalms 38:19
But they are strong who have hate for me without cause: those who are against me falsely are increased in numbers.
Psalms 56:2
My haters are ever ready to put an end to me; great numbers are lifting themselves up against me.
Psalms 57:4
My soul is among lions; I am stretched out among those who are on fire, even the sons of men, whose teeth are spears and arrows, and whose tongue is a sharp sword.
-----
2 Samuel 18:11
And Joab said to the man who had given him the news, If you saw this, why did you not put your sword through him, and I would have given you ten bits of silver and a band for your robe?
-----
2 Samuel 24:3
And Joab said to the king, Whatever the number of the people, may the Lord make it a hundred times as much, and may the eyes of my lord the king see it: but why does my lord the king take pleasure in doing this thing?
-----
Job 6:9
If only he would be pleased to put an end to me; and would let loose his hand, so that I might be cut off!
Psalms 68:10
Those whose resting-place was there, even the poor, were comforted by your good things, O God.
Psalms 72:4
May he be a judge of the poor among the people, may he give salvation to the children of those who are in need; by him let the violent be crushed.
Psalms 89:10
Rahab was crushed by you like one wounded to death; with your strong arm you put to flight all your haters.
Psalms 102:17
When he has given ear to the prayer of the poor, and has not put his request on one side.
Psalms 141:8
But my eyes are turned to you, O Lord God: my hope is in you; let not my soul be given up to death.
Isaiah 41:17
The poor and crushed are looking for water where no water is, and their tongue is dry for need of it: I the Lord will give ear to their prayer, I the God of Israel will not give them up.
John 14:18
I will not let you be without a friend: I am coming to you.
-----
Job 10:22
A land of thick dark, without order, where the very light is dark.
Proverbs 4:19
The way of sinners is dark; they see not the cause of their fall.
Ecclesiastes 2:16
Of the wise man, as of the foolish man, there is no memory for ever, seeing that those who now are will have gone from memory in the days to come. See how death comes to the wise as to the foolish!
Ecclesiastes 8:10
And then I saw evil men put to rest, taken even from the holy place; and they went about and were praised in the town because of what they had done. This again is to no purpose.
Ecclesiastes 9:5
The living are conscious that death will come to them, but the dead are not conscious of anything, and they no longer have a reward, because there is no memory of them.
Ecclesiastes 12:5
And he is in fear of that which is high, and danger is in the road, and the tree is white with flower, and the least thing is a weight, and desire is at an end, because man goes to his last resting-place, and those who are sorrowing are in the streets;
Isaiah 8:22
And he will be looking down on the earth, and there will be trouble and dark clouds, black night where there is no seeing.
Lamentations 3:2
By him I have been made to go in the dark where there is no light.
Matthew 8:12
But the sons of the kingdom will be put out into the dark, and there will be weeping and cries of pain.
John 12:46
I have come as a light into the world, so that no one who has faith in me will go on living in the dark.
Jude 1:5
Now it is my purpose to put you in mind, though you once had knowledge of all these things, of how the Lord, having taken a people safely out of Egypt, later sent destruction on those who had no faith;
Jude 1:6
And the angels who did not keep to their kingdom but went out from the place which was theirs, he has put in eternal chains and in dark night till the great day of the judging.
-----
Psalms 17:8
Keep me as the light of your eyes, covering me with the shade of your wings,
Psalms 27:7
O Lord, let the voice of my cry come to your ears: have mercy on me, and give me an answer.
Psalms 55:1
To the chief music-maker, on Neginoth. Maschil. Of David. Give hearing to my prayer, O God; and let not your ear be shut against my request.
Psalms 55:2
Give thought to me, and let my prayer be answered: I have been made low in sorrow;
Psalms 64:1
To the chief music-maker. A Psalm. Of David. O God, let the voice of my grief come to your ear: keep my life from the fear of those who are against me.
Psalms 71:11
Saying, God has given him up; go after him and take him, for he has no helper.
Psalms 71:12
O God, be not far from me; O my God, come quickly to my help.
Psalms 141:1
A Psalm. Of David. Lord, I have made my cry to you; come to me quickly; give ear to my voice, when it goes up to you.
Lamentations 3:55
I was making prayer to your name, O Lord, out of the lowest prison.
Lamentations 3:56
My voice came to you; let not your ear be shut to my breathing, to my cry.
-----
Psalms 22:7
I am laughed at by all those who see me: pushing out their lips and shaking their heads they say,
Psalms 22:8
He put his faith in the Lord; let the Lord be his saviour now: let the Lord be his saviour, because he had delight in him.
Psalms 31:18
Let the false lips be shut, which say evil against the upright, looking down on him in their pride.
Psalms 44:14
Our name is a word of shame among the nations, a sign for the shaking of heads among the peoples.
Psalms 44:15
My downfall is ever before me, and I am covered with the shame of my face;
Psalms 44:16
Because of the voice of him who says sharp and bitter words; because of the hater and him who is the instrument of punishment.
Psalms 74:20
Keep in mind your undertaking; for the dark places of the earth are full of pride and cruel acts.
Psalms 123:3
Have mercy on us, O Lord, have mercy on us: for all men are looking down on us.
Psalms 123:4
For long enough have men of pride made sport of our soul.
Lamentations 1:5
Those who are against her have become the head, everything goes well for her haters; for the Lord has sent sorrow on her because of the great number of her sins: her young children have gone away as prisoners before the attacker.
-----
Psalms 16:10
For you will not let my soul be prisoned in the underworld; you will not let your loved one see the place of death.
Psalms 16:11
You will make clear to me the way of life; where you are joy is complete; in your right hand there are pleasures for ever and ever.
Psalms 17:15
As for me, I will see your face in righteousness: when I am awake it will be joy enough for me to see your form.
Psalms 18:16
He sent from on high, he took me, pulling me out of great waters.
Psalms 18:17
He made me free from my strong hater, and from those who were against me, because they were stronger than I.
Psalms 25:17
The troubles of my heart are increased: O take me out of my sorrows.
Psalms 40:2
He took me up out of a deep waste place, out of the soft and sticky earth; he put my feet on a rock, and made my steps certain.
Psalms 86:13
For your mercy to me is great; you have taken my soul up from the deep places of the underworld.
Psalms 88:4
I am numbered among those who go down into the earth; I have become like a man for whom there is no help:
Psalms 116:3
The nets of death were round me, and the pains of the underworld had me in their grip; I was full of trouble and sorrow.
Psalms 142:7
Take my soul out of prison, so that I may give praise to your name: the upright will give praise because of me; for you have given me a full reward.
Jonah 2:5
The waters were circling round me, even to the neck; the deep was about me; the sea-grass was twisted round my head.
-----
Psalms 44:24
Why is your face covered, and why do you give no thought to our trouble and our cruel fate?
Psalms 44:25
For our souls are crushed down to the dust: our bodies are stretched out on the earth.
Psalms 44:26
Up! and come to our help, and give us salvation because of your mercy.
Psalms 79:8
Do not keep in mind against us the sins of our fathers; let your mercy come to us quickly, for we have been made very low.
Psalms 116:6
The Lord keeps the simple; I was made low, and he was my saviour.
Psalms 136:23
Who kept us in mind when we were in trouble: for his mercy is unchanging for ever.
-----
Psalms 17:10
They are shut up in their fat: with their mouths they say words of pride.
Psalms 17:11
They have made a circle round our steps: their eyes are fixed on us, forcing us down to the earth;
Psalms 17:12
Like a lion desiring its food, and like a young lion waiting in secret places.
Psalms 35:4
Let them be overcome and put to shame who make attempts to take my soul; let those who would do me damage be turned back and made foolish.
Psalms 54:3
For men who are going after me have come out against me, violent men are purposing to take my soul; they have not put God before their eyes. (Selah.)
-----
Psalms 56:5
Every day they make wrong use of my words; all their thoughts are against me for evil.
Psalms 56:6
They come together, they are waiting in secret places, they take note of my steps, they are waiting for my soul.
Jeremiah 17:5
This is what the Lord has said: Cursed is the man who puts his faith in man, and makes flesh his arm, and whose heart is turned away from the Lord.
-----
Job 6:4
For the arrows of the Ruler of all are present with me, and their poison goes deep into my spirit: his army of fears is put in order against me.
Job 10:1
My soul is tired of life; I will let my sad thoughts go free in words; my soul will make a bitter outcry.
Psalms 6:2
Have mercy on me, O Lord, for I am wasted away: make me well, for even my bones are troubled.
Psalms 6:3
My soul is in bitter trouble; and you, O Lord, how long?
Psalms 69:20
My heart is broken by bitter words, I am full of grief; I made a search for some to have pity on me, but there was no one; I had no comforter.
Psalms 77:3
I will keep God in memory, with sounds of grief; my thoughts are troubled, and my spirit is overcome. (Selah.)
Psalms 77:4
You keep my eyes from sleep; I am so troubled that no words come.
Psalms 102:4
My heart is broken; it has become dry and dead like grass, so that I give no thought to food.
Lamentations 3:13
He has let loose his arrows into the inmost parts of my body.
Lamentations 3:20
My soul still keeps the memory of them; and is bent down in me.
Matthew 26:37
And he took with him Peter and the two sons of Zebedee, and became sad and very troubled.
Matthew 26:38
Then says he to them, My soul is very sad, even to death: keep watch with me here.
-----
Psalms 25:16
Be turned to me, and have mercy on me; for I am troubled and have no helper.
Psalms 71:20
You, who have sent great and bitter troubles on me, will give me life again, lifting me up from the deep waters of the underworld.
Psalms 143:11
Give me life, O Lord, because of your name; in your righteousness take my soul out of trouble.
Isaiah 24:22
And they will be got together, like prisoners in the prison-house; and after a long time they will have their punishment.
Jonah 2:6
I went down to the bases of the mountains; as for the earth, her walls were about me for ever: but you have taken up my life from the underworld, O Lord my God.
Zechariah 9:11
And as for you, because of the blood of your agreement, I have sent out your prisoners from the deep hole in which there is no water.
Acts 2:24
But God gave him back to life, having made him free from the pains of death because it was not possible for him to be overcome by it.
Acts 2:27
For you will not let my soul be in hell and you will not give up your Holy One to destruction.
Acts 2:28
You have made me see the ways of life; I will be full of joy when I see your face.
Acts 2:29
My brothers, I may say to you openly that David came to his death, and was put in the earth, and his resting-place is with us today.
Acts 2:30
But being a prophet, and having in mind the oath which God had given to him, that of the fruit of his body one would take his place as a king,
Acts 2:31
He, having knowledge of the future, was talking of the coming again of Christ from the dead, that he was not kept in hell and his body did not see destruction.
-----
Psalms 7:4
If I have given back evil to him who did evil to me, or have taken anything from him who was against me without cause;
Psalms 13:2
How long is my soul to be in doubt, with sorrow in my heart all the day? how long will he who is against me be given power over me?
Psalms 77:5
My thoughts go back to the days of the past, to the years which are gone.
Psalms 77:6
The memory of my song comes back to me in the night; my thoughts are moving in my heart; my spirit is searching with care.
Psalms 77:7
Will the Lord put me away for ever? will he be kind no longer?
Psalms 88:8
You have sent my friends far away from me; you have made me a disgusting thing in their eyes: I am shut up, and not able to come out.
Psalms 88:18
You have sent my friends and lovers far from me; I am gone from the memory of those who are dear to me.
Psalms 139:24
See if there is any way of sorrow in me, and be my guide in the eternal way.
Ezekiel 37:11
Then he said to me, Son of man, these bones are all the children of Israel: and see, they are saying, Our bones have become dry our hope is gone, we are cut off completely.
Luke 22:53
When I was in the Temple with you every day, your hands were not stretched out against me: but this is your hour, and the authority of the dark power.
-----
Psalms 138:7
Even when trouble is round me, you will give me life; your hand will be stretched out against the wrath of my haters, and your right hand will be my salvation.
Luke 22:2
And the chief priests and the scribes were looking for a chance to put him to death, but they went in fear of the people.
Luke 23:5
But they became more violent than before, saying, He has made trouble among the people, teaching through all Judaea from Galilee to this place.
Luke 23:21
But crying out they said, To the cross with him!
Luke 23:22
And he said to them a third time, Why, what evil has he done? I see no reason for putting him to death: I will give him punishment and let him go.
Luke 23:23
But they went on crying out loudly, Let him be put to death on the cross. And they had their way.
-----
Ecclesiastes 11:8
But even if a man's life is long and he has joy in all his years, let him keep in mind the dark days, because they will be great in number. Whatever may come is to no purpose.
Ecclesiastes 11:9
Have joy, O young man, while you are young; and let your heart be glad in the days of your strength, and go in the ways of your heart, and in the desire of your eyes; but be certain that for all these things God will be your judge.
Ecclesiastes 12:14
God will be judge of every work, with every secret thing, good or evil.
-----
Jeremiah 15:20
And I will make you a strong wall of brass to this people; they will be fighting against you, but they will not overcome you: for I am with you to keep you safe, says the Lord.
-----
Jeremiah 15:21
I will keep you safe from the hands of the evil-doers, and I will give you salvation from the hands of the cruel ones.
-----
Psalms 74:7
They have put on fire your holy place; they have made the place of your name unclean, pulling it down to the earth.
Psalms 89:39
You have made your agreement with your servant of no effect: you have had no respect for his crown, it has come down even to the earth.
Psalms 89:44
You have put an end to his glory: the seat of his kingdom has been levelled to the earth.
Isaiah 25:12
And the strong tower of your walls has been broken by him, made low, and crushed even to the dust.
Isaiah 43:28
Your chiefs have made my holy place unclean, so I have made Jacob a curse, and Israel a thing of shame.
Lamentations 5:16
The crown has been taken from our head: sorrow is ours, for we are sinners.
-----
Mark 14:72
And in the same minute, the cock gave a second cry. And it came to Peter's mind how Jesus had said to him, Before the cock's second cry, you will say three times that you have no knowledge of me. And at this thought he was overcome with weeping.
Luke 22:62
And he went out, weeping bitterly.
1 Corinthians 10:12
So let him who seems to himself to be safe go in fear of a fall.
2 Corinthians 7:9
Now I am glad, not that you had sorrow, but that your sorrow was the cause of a change of heart; for yours was a holy sorrow so that you might undergo no loss by us in anything.
2 Corinthians 7:11
For you see what care was produced in you by this very sorrow of yours before God, what clearing of yourselves, what wrath against sin, what fear, what desire, what serious purpose, what punishment. In everything you have made it clear that you are free from sin in this business.
-----
Job 14:3
Is it on such a one as this that your eyes are fixed, with the purpose of judging him?
Psalms 38:18
I will make clear my wrongdoing, with sorrow in my heart for my sin.
Psalms 126:5
Those who put in seed with weeping will get in the grain with cries of joy.
Psalms 126:6
Though a man may go out weeping, taking his vessel of seed with him; he will come again in joy, with the corded stems of grain in his arms.
Psalms 130:3
O Jah, if you took note of every sin, who would go free?
Psalms 130:4
But there is forgiveness with you, so that you may be feared.
Jeremiah 31:18
Certainly Ephraim's words of grief have come to my ears, You have given me training and I have undergone it like a young cow unused to the yoke: let me be turned and come back, for you are the Lord my God.
Ezekiel 7:16
And those of them who get away safely will go and be in the secret places like the doves of the valleys, all of them will come to death, every one in his sin.
Zechariah 12:10
And I will send down on the family of David and on the people of Jerusalem the spirit of grace and of prayer; and their eyes will be turned to the one who was wounded by their hands: and they will be weeping for him as for an only son, and their grief for him will be bitter, like the grief of one sorrowing for his oldest son.
Matthew 5:4
Happy are those who are sad: for they will be comforted.
Matthew 26:75
And the word of Jesus came back to Peter, when he said, Before the hour of the cock's cry, you will say three times that you have no knowledge of me. And he went out, weeping bitterly.
2 Corinthians 7:10
For the sorrow which God gives is the cause of salvation through a change of heart, in which there is no reason for grief: but the sorrow of the world is a cause of death.
Public Domain