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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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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1 Samuel 30:6
And David was greatly distressed; for the people spake of stoning him, because the soul of all the people was grieved, every man for his sons and for his daughters: but David encouraged himself in the LORD his God.
Psalms 35:14
I behaved myself as though he had been my friend or brother: I bowed down heavily, as one that mourneth for his mother.
Psalms 42:5
Why art thou cast down, O my soul? and why art thou disquieted in me? hope thou in God: for I shall yet praise him for the help of his countenance.
Psalms 42:6
O my God, my soul is cast down within me: therefore will I remember thee from the land of Jordan, and of the Hermonites, from the hill Mizar.
Psalms 42:10
As with a sword in my bones, mine enemies reproach me; while they say daily unto me, Where is thy God?
Psalms 42:11
Why art thou cast down, O my soul? and why art thou disquieted within me? hope thou in God: for I shall yet praise him, who is the health of my countenance, and my God.
Psalms 43:5
Why art thou cast down, O my soul? and why art thou disquieted within me? hope in God: for I shall yet praise him, who is the health of my countenance, and my God.
Psalms 61:2
From the end of the earth will I cry unto thee, when my heart is overwhelmed: lead me to the rock that is higher than I.
Psalms 142:2
I poured out my complaint before him; I shewed before him my trouble.
Psalms 142:3
When my spirit was overwhelmed within me, then thou knewest my path. In the way wherein I walked have they privily laid a snare for me.
Mark 14:33
And he taketh with him Peter and James and John, and began to be sore amazed, and to be very heavy;
Mark 14:34
And saith unto them, My soul is exceeding sorrowful unto death: tarry ye here, and watch.
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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?
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2 Samuel 16:11
And David said to Abishai, and to all his servants, Behold, my son, which came forth of my bowels, seeketh my life: how much more now may this Benjamite do it? let him alone, and let him curse; for the LORD hath bidden him.
2 Samuel 17:2
And I will come upon him while he is weary and weak handed, and will make him afraid: and all the people that are with him shall flee; and I will smite the king only:
2 Samuel 17:3
And I will bring back all the people unto thee: the man whom thou seekest is as if all returned: so all the people shall be in peace.
2 Samuel 17:4
And the saying pleased Absalom well, and all the elders of Israel.
Psalms 3:1
A Psalm of David, when he fled from Absalom his son. LORD, how are they increased that trouble me! many are they that rise up against me.
Psalms 3:2
Many there be which say of my soul, There is no help for him in God. Selah.
Psalms 25:19
Consider mine enemies; for they are many; and they hate me with cruel hatred.
Psalms 27:2
When the wicked, even mine enemies and my foes, came upon me to eat up my flesh, they stumbled and fell.
Psalms 27:12
Deliver me not over unto the will of mine enemies: for false witnesses are risen up against me, and such as breathe out cruelty.
Psalms 38:19
But mine enemies are lively, and they are strong: and they that hate me wrongfully are multiplied.
Psalms 56:2
Mine enemies would daily swallow me up: for they be many that fight against me, O thou most High.
Psalms 57:4
My soul is among lions: and I lie even among them that are set on fire, even the sons of men, whose teeth are spears and arrows, and their tongue a sharp sword.
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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.
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2 Samuel 24:3
And Joab said unto the king, Now the LORD thy God add unto the people, how many soever they be, an hundredfold, and that the eyes of my lord the king may see it: but why doth my lord the king delight in this thing?
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Job 6:9
Even that it would please God to destroy me; that he would let loose his hand, and cut me off!
Psalms 68:10
Thy congregation hath dwelt therein: thou, O God, hast prepared of thy goodness for the poor.
Psalms 72:4
He shall judge the poor of the people, he shall save the children of the needy, and shall break in pieces the oppressor.
Psalms 89:10
Thou hast broken Rahab in pieces, as one that is slain; thou hast scattered thine enemies with thy strong arm.
Psalms 102:17
He will regard the prayer of the destitute, and not despise their prayer.
Psalms 141:8
But mine eyes are unto thee, O GOD the Lord: in thee is my trust; leave not my soul destitute.
Isaiah 41:17
When the poor and needy seek water, and there is none, and their tongue faileth for thirst, I the LORD will hear them, I the God of Israel will not forsake them.
John 14:18
I will not leave you comfortless: I will come to you.
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Job 10:22
A land of darkness, as darkness itself; and of the shadow of death, without any order, and where the light is as darkness.
Proverbs 4:19
The way of the wicked is as darkness: they know not at what they stumble.
Ecclesiastes 2:16
For there is no remembrance of the wise more than of the fool for ever; seeing that which now is in the days to come shall all be forgotten. And how dieth the wise man? as the fool.
Ecclesiastes 8:10
And so I saw the wicked buried, who had come and gone from the place of the holy, and they were forgotten in the city where they had so done: this is also vanity.
Ecclesiastes 9:5
For the living know that they shall die: but the dead know not any thing, neither have they any more a reward; for the memory of them is forgotten.
Ecclesiastes 12:5
Also when they shall be afraid of that which is high, and fears shall be in the way, and the almond tree shall flourish, and the grasshopper shall be a burden, and desire shall fail: because man goeth to his long home, and the mourners go about the streets:
Isaiah 8:22
And they shall look unto the earth; and behold trouble and darkness, dimness of anguish; and they shall be driven to darkness.
Lamentations 3:2
He hath led me, and brought me into darkness, but not into light.
Matthew 8:12
But the children of the kingdom shall be cast out into outer darkness: there shall be weeping and gnashing of teeth.
John 12:46
I am come a light into the world, that whosoever believeth on me should not abide in darkness.
Jude 1:5
I will therefore put you in remembrance, though ye once knew this, how that the Lord, having saved the people out of the land of Egypt, afterward destroyed them that believed not.
Jude 1:6
And the angels which kept not their first estate, but left their own habitation, he hath reserved in everlasting chains under darkness unto the judgment of the great day.
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Psalms 17:8
Keep me as the apple of the eye, hide me under the shadow of thy wings,
Psalms 27:7
Hear, O LORD, when I cry with my voice: have mercy also upon me, and answer me.
Psalms 55:1
To the chief Musician on Neginoth, Maschil, A Psalm of David. Give ear to my prayer, O God; and hide not thyself from my supplication.
Psalms 55:2
Attend unto me, and hear me: I mourn in my complaint, and make a noise;
Psalms 64:1
To the chief Musician, A Psalm of David. Hear my voice, O God, in my prayer: preserve my life from fear of the enemy.
Psalms 71:11
Saying, God hath forsaken him: persecute and take him; for there is none to deliver him.
Psalms 71:12
O God, be not far from me: O my God, make haste for my help.
Psalms 141:1
A Psalm of David. LORD, I cry unto thee: make haste unto me; give ear unto my voice, when I cry unto thee.
Lamentations 3:55
I called upon thy name, O LORD, out of the low dungeon.
Lamentations 3:56
Thou hast heard my voice: hide not thine ear at my breathing, at my cry.
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Psalms 22:7
All they that see me laugh me to scorn: they shoot out the lip, they shake the head, saying,
Psalms 22:8
He trusted on the LORD that he would deliver him: let him deliver him, seeing he delighted in him.
Psalms 31:18
Let the lying lips be put to silence; which speak grievous things proudly and contemptuously against the righteous.
Psalms 44:14
Thou makest us a byword among the heathen, a shaking of the head among the people.
Psalms 44:15
My confusion is continually before me, and the shame of my face hath covered me,
Psalms 44:16
For the voice of him that reproacheth and blasphemeth; by reason of the enemy and avenger.
Psalms 74:20
Have respect unto the covenant: for the dark places of the earth are full of the habitations of cruelty.
Psalms 123:3
Have mercy upon us, O LORD, have mercy upon us: for we are exceedingly filled with contempt.
Psalms 123:4
Our soul is exceedingly filled with the scorning of those that are at ease, and with the contempt of the proud.
Lamentations 1:5
Her adversaries are the chief, her enemies prosper; for the LORD hath afflicted her for the multitude of her transgressions: her children are gone into captivity before the enemy.
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Psalms 16:10
For thou wilt not leave my soul in hell; neither wilt thou suffer thine Holy One to see corruption.
Psalms 16:11
Thou wilt shew me the path of life: in thy presence is fulness of joy; at thy right hand there are pleasures for evermore.
Psalms 17:15
As for me, I will behold thy face in righteousness: I shall be satisfied, when I awake, with thy likeness.
Psalms 18:16
He sent from above, he took me, he drew me out of many waters.
Psalms 18:17
He delivered me from my strong enemy, and from them which hated me: for they were too strong for me.
Psalms 25:17
The troubles of my heart are enlarged: O bring thou me out of my distresses.
Psalms 40:2
He brought me up also out of an horrible pit, out of the miry clay, and set my feet upon a rock, and established my goings.
Psalms 86:13
For great is thy mercy toward me: and thou hast delivered my soul from the lowest hell.
Psalms 88:4
I am counted with them that go down into the pit: I am as a man that hath no strength:
Psalms 116:3
The sorrows of death compassed me, and the pains of hell gat hold upon me: I found trouble and sorrow.
Psalms 142:7
Bring my soul out of prison, that I may praise thy name: the righteous shall compass me about; for thou shalt deal bountifully with me.
Jonah 2:5
The waters compassed me about, even to the soul: the depth closed me round about, the weeds were wrapped about my head.
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Psalms 44:24
Wherefore hidest thou thy face, and forgettest our affliction and our oppression?
Psalms 44:25
For our soul is bowed down to the dust: our belly cleaveth unto the earth.
Psalms 44:26
Arise for our help, and redeem us for thy mercies' sake.
Psalms 79:8
O remember not against us former iniquities: let thy tender mercies speedily prevent us: for we are brought very low.
Psalms 116:6
The LORD preserveth the simple: I was brought low, and he helped me.
Psalms 136:23
Who remembered us in our low estate: for his mercy endureth for ever:
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Psalms 17:10
They are inclosed in their own fat: with their mouth they speak proudly.
Psalms 17:11
They have now compassed us in our steps: they have set their eyes bowing down to the earth;
Psalms 17:12
Like as a lion that is greedy of his prey, and as it were a young lion lurking in secret places.
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.
Psalms 54:3
For strangers are risen up against me, and oppressors seek after my soul: they have not set God before them. Selah.
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Psalms 56:5
Every day they wrest my words: all their thoughts are against me for evil.
Psalms 56:6
They gather themselves together, they hide themselves, they mark my steps, when they wait for my soul.
Jeremiah 17:5
Thus saith the LORD; Cursed be the man that trusteth in man, and maketh flesh his arm, and whose heart departeth from the LORD.
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Job 6:4
For the arrows of the Almighty are within me, the poison whereof drinketh up my spirit: the terrors of God do set themselves in array against me.
Job 10:1
My soul is weary of my life; I will leave my complaint upon myself; I will speak in the bitterness of my soul.
Psalms 6:2
Have mercy upon me, O LORD; for I am weak: O LORD, heal me; for my bones are vexed.
Psalms 6:3
My soul is also sore vexed: but thou, O LORD, how long?
Psalms 69:20
Reproach hath broken my heart; and I am full of heaviness: and I looked for some to take pity, but there was none; and for comforters, but I found none.
Psalms 77:3
I remembered God, and was troubled: I complained, and my spirit was overwhelmed. Selah.
Psalms 77:4
Thou holdest mine eyes waking: I am so troubled that I cannot speak.
Psalms 102:4
My heart is smitten, and withered like grass; so that I forget to eat my bread.
Lamentations 3:13
He hath caused the arrows of his quiver to enter into my reins.
Lamentations 3:20
My soul hath them still in remembrance, and is humbled in me.
Matthew 26:37
And he took with him Peter and the two sons of Zebedee, and began to be sorrowful and very heavy.
Matthew 26:38
Then saith he unto them, My soul is exceeding sorrowful, even unto death: tarry ye here, and watch with me.
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Psalms 25:16
Turn thee unto me, and have mercy upon me; for I am desolate and afflicted.
Psalms 71:20
Thou, which hast shewed me great and sore troubles, shalt quicken me again, and shalt bring me up again from the depths of the earth.
Psalms 143:11
Quicken me, O LORD, for thy name's sake: for thy righteousness' sake bring my soul out of trouble.
Isaiah 24:22
And they shall be gathered together, as prisoners are gathered in the pit, and shall be shut up in the prison, and after many days shall they be visited.
Jonah 2:6
I went down to the bottoms of the mountains; the earth with her bars was about me for ever: yet hast thou brought up my life from corruption, O LORD my God.
Zechariah 9:11
As for thee also, by the blood of thy covenant I have sent forth thy prisoners out of the pit wherein is no water.
Acts 2:24
Whom God hath raised up, having loosed the pains of death: because it was not possible that he should be holden of it.
Acts 2:27
Because thou wilt not leave my soul in hell, neither wilt thou suffer thine Holy One to see corruption.
Acts 2:28
Thou hast made known to me the ways of life; thou shalt make me full of joy with thy countenance.
Acts 2:29
Men and brethren, let me freely speak unto you of the patriarch David, that he is both dead and buried, and his sepulchre is with us unto this day.
Acts 2:30
Therefore being a prophet, and knowing that God had sworn with an oath to him, that of the fruit of his loins, according to the flesh, he would raise up Christ to sit on his throne;
Acts 2:31
He seeing this before spake of the resurrection of Christ, that his soul was not left in hell, neither his flesh did see corruption.
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Psalms 7:4
If I have rewarded evil unto him that was at peace with me; (yea, I have delivered him that without cause is mine enemy:)
Psalms 13:2
How long shall I take counsel in my soul, having sorrow in my heart daily? how long shall mine enemy be exalted over me?
Psalms 77:5
I have considered the days of old, the years of ancient times.
Psalms 77:6
I call to remembrance my song in the night: I commune with mine own heart: and my spirit made diligent search.
Psalms 77:7
Will the Lord cast off for ever? and will he be favourable no more?
Psalms 88:8
Thou hast put away mine acquaintance far from me; thou hast made me an abomination unto them: I am shut up, and I cannot come forth.
Psalms 88:18
Lover and friend hast thou put far from me, and mine acquaintance into darkness.
Psalms 139:24
And see if there be any wicked way in me, and lead me in the way everlasting.
Ezekiel 37:11
Then he said unto me, Son of man, these bones are the whole house of Israel: behold, they say, Our bones are dried, and our hope is lost: we are cut off for our parts.
Luke 22:53
When I was daily with you in the temple, ye stretched forth no hands against me: but this is your hour, and the power of darkness.
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Psalms 138:7
Though I walk in the midst of trouble, thou wilt revive me: thou shalt stretch forth thine hand against the wrath of mine enemies, and thy right hand shall save me.
Luke 22:2
And the chief priests and scribes sought how they might kill him; for they feared the people.
Luke 23:5
And they were the more fierce, saying, He stirreth up the people, teaching throughout all Jewry, beginning from Galilee to this place.
Luke 23:21
But they cried, saying, Crucify him, crucify him.
Luke 23:22
And he said unto them the third time, Why, what evil hath he done? I have found no cause of death in him: I will therefore chastise him, and let him go.
Luke 23:23
And they were instant with loud voices, requiring that he might be crucified. And the voices of them and of the chief priests prevailed.
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Ecclesiastes 11:8
But if a man live many years, and rejoice in them all; yet let him remember the days of darkness; for they shall be many. All that cometh is vanity.
Ecclesiastes 11:9
Rejoice, O young man, in thy youth; and let thy heart cheer thee in the days of thy youth, and walk in the ways of thine heart, and in the sight of thine eyes: but know thou, that for all these things God will bring thee into judgment.
Ecclesiastes 12:14
For God shall bring every work into judgment, with every secret thing, whether it be good, or whether it be evil.
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Jeremiah 15:20
And I will make thee unto this people a fenced brasen wall: and they shall fight against thee, but they shall not prevail against thee: for I am with thee to save thee and to deliver thee, saith the LORD.
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Jeremiah 15:21
And I will deliver thee out of the hand of the wicked, and I will redeem thee out of the hand of the terrible.
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Psalms 74:7
They have cast fire into thy sanctuary, they have defiled by casting down the dwelling place of thy name to the ground.
Psalms 89:39
Thou hast made void the covenant of thy servant: thou hast profaned his crown by casting it to the ground.
Psalms 89:44
Thou hast made his glory to cease, and cast his throne down to the ground.
Isaiah 25:12
And the fortress of the high fort of thy walls shall he bring down, lay low, and bring to the ground, even to the dust.
Isaiah 43:28
Therefore I have profaned the princes of the sanctuary, and have given Jacob to the curse, and Israel to reproaches.
Lamentations 5:16
The crown is fallen from our head: woe unto us, that we have sinned!
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Mark 14:72
And the second time the cock crew. And Peter called to mind the word that Jesus said unto him, Before the cock crow twice, thou shalt deny me thrice. And when he thought thereon, he wept.
Luke 22:62
And Peter went out, and wept bitterly.
1 Corinthians 10:12
Wherefore let him that thinketh he standeth take heed lest he fall.
2 Corinthians 7:9
Now I rejoice, not that ye were made sorry, but that ye sorrowed to repentance: for ye were made sorry after a godly manner, that ye might receive damage by us in nothing.
2 Corinthians 7:11
For behold this selfsame thing, that ye sorrowed after a godly sort, what carefulness it wrought in you, yea, what clearing of yourselves, yea, what indignation, yea, what fear, yea, what vehement desire, yea, what zeal, yea, what revenge! In all things ye have approved yourselves to be clear in this matter.
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Job 14:3
And dost thou open thine eyes upon such an one, and bringest me into judgment with thee?
Psalms 38:18
For I will declare mine iniquity; I will be sorry for my sin.
Psalms 126:5
They that sow in tears shall reap in joy.
Psalms 126:6
He that goeth forth and weepeth, bearing precious seed, shall doubtless come again with rejoicing, bringing his sheaves with him.
Psalms 130:3
If thou, LORD, shouldest mark iniquities, O Lord, who shall stand?
Psalms 130:4
But there is forgiveness with thee, that thou mayest be feared.
Jeremiah 31:18
I have surely heard Ephraim bemoaning himself thus; Thou hast chastised me, and I was chastised, as a bullock unaccustomed to the yoke: turn thou me, and I shall be turned; for thou art the LORD my God.
Ezekiel 7:16
But they that escape of them shall escape, and shall be on the mountains like doves of the valleys, all of them mourning, every one for his iniquity.
Zechariah 12:10
And I will pour upon the house of David, and upon the inhabitants of Jerusalem, the spirit of grace and of supplications: and they shall look upon me whom they have pierced, and they shall mourn for him, as one mourneth for his only son, and shall be in bitterness for him, as one that is in bitterness for his firstborn.
Matthew 5:4
Blessed are they that mourn: for they shall be comforted.
Matthew 26:75
And Peter remembered the word of Jesus, which said unto him, Before the cock crow, thou shalt deny me thrice. And he went out, and wept bitterly.
2 Corinthians 7:10
For godly sorrow worketh repentance to salvation not to be repented of: but the sorrow of the world worketh death.
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