Psalms 56:2
My enemies want to swallow me up all day long, for they are many who fight proudly against me.
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Psalms 56:2
My enemies want to swallow me up all day long, for they are many who fight proudly against me.
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Genesis 3:15
I will put hostility between you and the woman, and between your offspring and her offspring. He will bruise your head, and you will bruise his heel.”
1 Samuel 17:16
The Philistine came near morning and evening, and presented himself forty days.
1 Samuel 20:3
David swore moreover, and said, “Your father knows well that I have found favor in your eyes; and he says, ‘Don’t let Jonathan know this, lest he be grieved;’ but truly as Yahweh lives, and as your soul lives, there is but a step between me and death.”
1 Samuel 25:29
Though men may rise up to pursue you and to seek your soul, yet the soul of my lord will be bound in the bundle of life with Yahweh your God. He will sling out the souls of your enemies as from a sling’s pocket.
Psalms 18:17
He delivered me from my strong enemy, from those who hated me; for they were too mighty for me.
Psalms 18:18
They came on me in the day of my calamity, but Yahweh was my support.
Psalms 118:13
You pushed me back hard, to make me fall, but Yahweh helped me.
Matthew 4:1
Then Jesus was led up by the Spirit into the wilderness to be tempted by the devil.
Matthew 4:2
When he had fasted forty days and forty nights, he was hungry afterward.
Matthew 4:3
The tempter came and said to him, “If you are the Son of God, command that these stones become bread.”
Matthew 4:5
Then the devil took him into the holy city. He set him on the pinnacle of the temple,
Hebrews 2:14
Since then the children have shared in flesh and blood, he also himself in the same way partook of the same, that through death he might bring to nothing him who had the power of death, that is, the devil,
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Exodus 2:23
In the course of those many days, the king of Egypt died, and the children of Israel sighed because of the bondage, and they cried, and their cry came up to God because of the bondage.
Exodus 3:7
Yahweh said, “I have surely seen the affliction of my people who are in Egypt, and have heard their cry because of their taskmasters, for I know their sorrows.
Exodus 3:9
Now, behold, the cry of the children of Israel has come to me. Moreover I have seen the oppression with which the Egyptians oppress them.
Nehemiah 5:1
Then there arose a great cry of the people and of their wives against their brothers the Jews.
Nehemiah 5:2
For there were some who said, “We, our sons and our daughters, are many. Let us get grain, that we may eat and live.”
Nehemiah 5:3
There were also some who said, “We are mortgaging our fields, our vineyards, and our houses. Let us get grain, because of the famine.”
Nehemiah 5:4
There were also some who said, “We have borrowed money for the king’s tribute using our fields and our vineyards as collateral.
Nehemiah 5:5
Yet now our flesh is as the flesh of our brothers, our children as their children. Behold, we bring our sons and our daughters into bondage to be servants, and some of our daughters have been brought into bondage. It is also not in our power to help it, because other men have our fields and our vineyards.”
Job 24:12
From out of the populous city, men groan. The soul of the wounded cries out, yet God doesn’t regard the folly.
Job 34:28
so that they caused the cry of the poor to come to him. He heard the cry of the afflicted.
Job 35:9
“By reason of the multitude of oppressions they cry out. They cry for help by reason of the arm of the mighty.
Psalms 12:5
“Because of the oppression of the weak and because of the groaning of the needy, I will now arise,” says Yahweh; “I will set him in safety from those who malign him.”
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Exodus 18:11
Now I know that Yahweh is greater than all gods because of the way that they treated people arrogantly.”
Psalms 7:17
I will give thanks to Yahweh according to his righteousness, and will sing praise to the name of Yahweh Most High.
Psalms 75:5
Don’t lift up your horn on high. Don’t speak with a stiff neck.”
Psalms 92:1
It is a good thing to give thanks to Yahweh, to sing praises to your name, Most High,
Psalms 97:9
For you, Yahweh, are most high above all the earth. You are exalted far above all gods.
Daniel 4:34
At the end of the days I, Nebuchadnezzar, lifted up my eyes to heaven, and my understanding returned to me; and I blessed the Most High, and I praised and honored him who lives forever, for his dominion is an everlasting dominion, and his kingdom from generation to generation.
Daniel 4:35
All the inhabitants of the earth are reputed as nothing; and he does according to his will in the army of heaven, and among the inhabitants of the earth; and no one can stop his hand, or ask him, “What are you doing?”
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2 Samuel 21:19
There was again war with the Philistines at Gob, and Elhanan the son of Jaare-Oregim the Bethlehemite killed Goliath the Gittite’s brother, the staff of whose spear was like a weaver’s beam.
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Ezra 3:3
In spite of their fear because of the peoples of the surrounding lands, they set the altar on its base; and they offered burnt offerings on it to Yahweh, even burnt offerings morning and evening.
Ezra 4:11
This is the copy of the letter that they sent: To King Artaxerxes, from your servants, the people beyond the River.
Ezra 4:12
Be it known to the king that the Jews who came up from you have come to us to Jerusalem. They are building the rebellious and bad city, and have finished the walls and repaired the foundations.
Ezra 4:13
Be it known now to the king that if this city is built and the walls finished, they will not pay tribute, custom, or toll, and in the end it will be hurtful to the kings.
Ezra 4:14
Now because we eat the salt of the palace and it is not appropriate for us to see the king’s dishonor, therefore we have sent and informed the king,
Ezra 4:15
that search may be made in the book of the records of your fathers. You will see in the book of the records, and know that this city is a rebellious city, and hurtful to kings and provinces, and that they have started rebellions within it in the past. That is why this city was destroyed.
Ezra 4:16
We inform the king that if this city is built and the walls finished, then you will have no possession beyond the River.
Ezra 8:21
Then I proclaimed a fast there at the river Ahava, that we might humble ourselves before our God, to seek from him a straight way for us, for our little ones, and for all our possessions.
Ezra 8:22
For I was ashamed to ask of the king a band of soldiers and horsemen to help us against the enemy on the way, because we had spoken to the king, saying, “The hand of our God is on all those who seek him, for good; but his power and his wrath is against all those who forsake him.”
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Esther 3:6
But he scorned the thought of laying hands on Mordecai alone, for they had made known to him Mordecai’s people. Therefore Haman sought to destroy all the Jews who were throughout the whole kingdom of Ahasuerus, even Mordecai’s people.
Esther 3:12
Then the king’s scribes were called in on the first month, on the thirteenth day of the month; and all that Haman commanded was written to the king’s local governors, and to the governors who were over every province, and to the princes of every people, to every province according to its writing, and to every people in their language. It was written in the name of King Ahasuerus, and it was sealed with the king’s ring.
Esther 3:13
Letters were sent by couriers into all the king’s provinces, to destroy, to kill, and to cause to perish, all Jews, both young and old, little children and women, in one day, even on the thirteenth day of the twelfth month, which is the month Adar, and to plunder their possessions.
Psalms 74:8
They said in their heart, “We will crush them completely.” They have burned up all the places in the land where God was worshiped.
Psalms 83:4
“Come,” they say, “let’s destroy them as a nation, that the name of Israel may be remembered no more.”
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Job 7:2
As a servant who earnestly desires the shadow, as a hireling who looks for his wages,
Psalms 119:131
I opened my mouth wide and panted, for I longed for your commandments.
Ecclesiastes 1:5
The sun also rises, and the sun goes down, and hurries to its place where it rises.
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Job 6:3
For now it would be heavier than the sand of the seas, therefore my words have been rash.
Job 9:17
For he breaks me with a storm, and multiplies my wounds without cause.
Psalms 106:17
The earth opened and swallowed up Dathan, and covered the company of Abiram.
Psalms 139:11
If I say, “Surely the darkness will overwhelm me. The light around me will be night,”
Isaiah 49:25
But Yahweh says, “Even the captives of the mighty shall be taken away, and the plunder retrieved from the fierce, for I will contend with him who contends with you and I will save your children.
Isaiah 49:26
I will feed those who oppress you with their own flesh; and they will be drunk on their own blood, as with sweet wine. Then all flesh shall know that I, Yahweh, am your Savior and your Redeemer, the Mighty One of Jacob.”
Jeremiah 50:7
All who found them have devoured them. Their adversaries said, ‘We are not guilty, because they have sinned against Yahweh, the habitation of righteousness, even Yahweh, the hope of their fathers.’
Jeremiah 50:17
“Israel is a hunted sheep. The lions have driven him away. First, the king of Assyria devoured him, and now at last Nebuchadnezzar king of Babylon has broken his bones.”
Jeremiah 51:33
For Yahweh of Armies, the God of Israel says: “The daughter of Babylon is like a threshing floor at the time when it is trodden. Yet a little while, and the time of harvest comes for her.”
Jeremiah 51:44
I will execute judgment on Bel in Babylon, and I will bring out of his mouth that which he has swallowed up. The nations will not flow any more to him. Yes, the wall of Babylon will fall.
Lamentations 2:5
The Lord has become as an enemy. He has swallowed up Israel. He has swallowed up all her palaces. He has destroyed his strongholds. He has multiplied mourning and lamentation in the daughter of Judah.
Hosea 8:8
Israel is swallowed up. Now they are among the nations like a worthless thing.
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2 Samuel 4:11
How much more, when wicked men have slain a righteous person in his own house on his bed, should I not now require his blood from your hand, and rid the earth of you?”
1 Kings 2:32
Yahweh will return his blood on his own head, because he fell on two men more righteous and better than he, and killed them with the sword, and my father David didn’t know it: Abner the son of Ner, captain of the army of Israel, and Amasa the son of Jether, captain of the army of Judah.
Psalms 37:12
The wicked plots against the just, and gnashes at him with his teeth.
Psalms 37:13
The Lord will laugh at him, for he sees that his day is coming.
Psalms 37:14
The wicked have drawn out the sword, and have bent their bow, to cast down the poor and needy, to kill those who are upright on the path.
Psalms 37:15
Their sword shall enter into their own heart. Their bows shall be broken.
Psalms 37:32
The wicked watch the righteous, and seek to kill him.
Psalms 37:33
Yahweh will not leave him in his hand, nor condemn him when he is judged.
Habakkuk 1:3
Why do you show me iniquity, and look at perversity? For destruction and violence are before me. There is strife, and contention rises up.
Habakkuk 1:4
Therefore the law is paralyzed, and justice never prevails; for the wicked surround the righteous; therefore justice comes out perverted.
Habakkuk 1:13
You who have purer eyes than to see evil, and who cannot look on perversity, why do you tolerate those who deal treacherously and keep silent when the wicked swallows up the man who is more righteous than he,
Acts 2:23
him, being delivered up by the determined counsel and foreknowledge of God, you have taken by the hand of lawless men, crucified and killed;
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Psalms 41:4
I said, “Yahweh, have mercy on me! Heal me, for I have sinned against you.”
Psalms 41:5
My enemies speak evil against me: “When will he die, and his name perish?”
Psalms 41:6
If he comes to see me, he speaks falsehood. His heart gathers iniquity to itself. When he goes abroad, he tells it.
Psalms 41:7
All who hate me whisper together against me. They imagine the worst for me.
Psalms 41:8
“An evil disease”, they say, “has afflicted him. Now that he lies he shall rise up no more.”
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Psalms 43:2
For you are the God of my strength. Why have you rejected me? Why do I go mourning because of the oppression of the enemy?
Psalms 55:2
Attend to me, and answer me. I am restless in my complaint, and moan
Psalms 55:3
because of the voice of the enemy, because of the oppression of the wicked. For they bring suffering on me. In anger they hold a grudge against me.
Ecclesiastes 5:8
If you see the oppression of the poor, and the violent taking away of justice and righteousness in a district, don’t marvel at the matter, for one official is eyed by a higher one, and there are officials over them.
Micah 2:3
Therefore Yahweh says: “Behold, I am planning against these people a disaster, from which you will not remove your necks, neither will you walk haughtily, for it is an evil time.
Luke 18:3
A widow was in that city, and she often came to him, saying, ‘Defend me from my adversary!’
Luke 18:4
He wouldn’t for a while; but afterward he said to himself, ‘Though I neither fear God nor respect man,
Luke 18:5
yet because this widow bothers me, I will defend her, or else she will wear me out by her continual coming.’ ”
Luke 18:6
The Lord said, “Listen to what the unrighteous judge says.
Luke 18:7
Won’t God avenge his chosen ones who are crying out to him day and night, and yet he exercises patience with them?
1 Peter 3:12
For the eyes of the Lord are on the righteous, and his ears open to their prayer; but the face of the Lord is against those who do evil.”
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Psalms 59:1
Deliver me from my enemies, my God. Set me on high from those who rise up against me.
Psalms 59:2
Deliver me from the workers of iniquity. Save me from the bloodthirsty men.
Psalms 59:3
For, behold, they lie in wait for my soul. The mighty gather themselves together against me, not for my disobedience, nor for my sin, Yahweh.
Psalms 59:11
Don’t kill them, or my people may forget. Scatter them by your power, and bring them down, Lord our shield.
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Psalms 69:13
But as for me, my prayer is to you, Yahweh, in an acceptable time. God, in the abundance of your loving kindness, answer me in the truth of your salvation.
Psalms 69:14
Deliver me out of the mire, and don’t let me sink. Let me be delivered from those who hate me, and out of the deep waters.
Psalms 69:15
Don’t let the flood waters overwhelm me, neither let the deep swallow me up. Don’t let the pit shut its mouth on me.
Psalms 69:16
Answer me, Yahweh, for your loving kindness is good. According to the multitude of your tender mercies, turn to me.
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Psalms 102:26
They will perish, but you will endure. Yes, all of them will wear out like a garment. You will change them like a cloak, and they will be changed.
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Psalms 102:27
But you are the same. Your years will have no end.
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Psalms 55:16
As for me, I will call on God. Yahweh will save me.
Psalms 55:17
Evening, morning, and at noon, I will cry out in distress. He will hear my voice.
Psalms 109:4
In return for my love, they are my adversaries; but I am in prayer.
Psalms 109:28
They may curse, but you bless. When they arise, they will be shamed, but your servant shall rejoice.
Jeremiah 18:19
Give heed to me, Yahweh, and listen to the voice of those who contend with me.
Jeremiah 20:12
But Yahweh of Armies, who tests the righteous, who sees the heart and the mind, let me see your vengeance on them, for I have revealed my cause to you.
Luke 6:11
But they were filled with rage, and talked with one another about what they might do to Jesus.
Luke 6:12
In these days, he went out to the mountain to pray, and he continued all night in prayer to God.
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Psalms 56:13
For you have delivered my soul from death, and prevented my feet from falling, that I may walk before God in the light of the living.
Psalms 105:43
He brought his people out with joy, his chosen with singing.
Psalms 105:44
He gave them the lands of the nations. They took the labor of the peoples in possession,
Psalms 105:45
that they might keep his statutes, and observe his laws. Praise Yah!
Psalms 119:122
Ensure your servant’s well-being. Don’t let the proud oppress me.
Psalms 119:134
Redeem me from the oppression of man, so I will observe your precepts.
Ezekiel 11:17
“Therefore say, ‘The Lord Yahweh says: “I will gather you from the peoples, and assemble you out of the countries where you have been scattered, and I will give you the land of Israel.”
Ezekiel 11:18
“ ‘They will come there, and they will take away all its detestable things and all its abominations from there.
Ezekiel 11:19
I will give them one heart, and I will put a new spirit within them. I will take the stony heart out of their flesh, and will give them a heart of flesh,
Ezekiel 11:20
that they may walk in my statutes, and keep my ordinances, and do them. They will be my people, and I will be their God.
Ezekiel 36:24
“ ‘ “For I will take you from among the nations and gather you out of all the countries, and will bring you into your own land.
Ezekiel 36:25
I will sprinkle clean water on you, and you will be clean. I will cleanse you from all your filthiness and from all your idols.
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Psalms 136:2
Give thanks to the God of gods, for his loving kindness endures forever.
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Psalms 136:3
Give thanks to the Lord of lords, for his loving kindness endures forever;
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Ecclesiastes 10:6
Folly is set in great dignity, and the rich sit in a low place.
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Isaiah 5:25
Therefore Yahweh’s anger burns against his people, and he has stretched out his hand against them and has struck them. The mountains tremble, and their dead bodies are as refuse in the middle of the streets. For all this, his anger is not turned away, but his hand is still stretched out.
Isaiah 9:12
The Syrians in front, and the Philistines behind; and they will devour Israel with open mouth. For all this, his anger is not turned away, but his hand is stretched out still.
Isaiah 9:17
Therefore the Lord will not rejoice over their young men, neither will he have compassion on their fatherless and widows; for everyone is profane and an evildoer, and every mouth speaks folly. For all this his anger is not turned away, but his hand is stretched out still.
Isaiah 9:21
Manasseh eating Ephraim and Ephraim eating Manasseh, and they together will be against Judah. For all this his anger is not turned away, but his hand is stretched out still.
Isaiah 10:4
They will only bow down under the prisoners, and will fall under the slain. For all this his anger is not turned away, but his hand is stretched out still.
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Isaiah 22:16
‘What are you doing here? Who has you here, that you have dug out a tomb here?’ Cutting himself out a tomb on high, chiseling a habitation for himself in the rock!”
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Isaiah 24:18
It will happen that he who flees from the noise of the fear will fall into the pit; and he who comes up out of the middle of the pit will be taken in the snare; for the windows on high are opened, and the foundations of the earth tremble.
Jeremiah 6:25
Don’t go out into the field or walk by the way; for the sword of the enemy and terror are on every side.
Jeremiah 20:3
On the next day, Pashhur released Jeremiah out of the stocks. Then Jeremiah said to him, “Yahweh has not called your name Pashhur, but Magormissabib.
Jeremiah 20:4
For Yahweh says, ‘Behold, I will make you a terror to yourself and to all your friends. They will fall by the sword of their enemies, and your eyes will see it. I will give all Judah into the hand of the king of Babylon, and he will carry them captive to Babylon, and will kill them with the sword.
Lamentations 2:22
“You have called, as in the day of a solemn assembly, my terrors on every side. There was no one that escaped or remained in the day of Yahweh’s anger. My enemy has consumed those whom I have cared for and brought up.
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Isaiah 26:5
For he has brought down those who dwell on high, the lofty city. He lays it low. He lays it low even to the ground. He brings it even to the dust.
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Isaiah 28:7
They also reel with wine, and stagger with strong drink. The priest and the prophet reel with strong drink. They are swallowed up by wine. They stagger with strong drink. They err in vision. They stumble in judgment.
2 Corinthians 2:7
so that, on the contrary, you should rather forgive him and comfort him, lest by any means such a one should be swallowed up with his excessive sorrow.
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Jeremiah 17:12
A glorious throne, set on high from the beginning, is the place of our sanctuary.
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Isaiah 49:17
Your children hurry. Your destroyers and those who devastated you will leave you.
Jeremiah 30:16
Therefore all those who devour you will be devoured. All your adversaries, everyone of them, will go into captivity. Those who plunder you will be plunder. I will make all who prey on you become prey.
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Ezekiel 25:3
Tell the children of Ammon, ‘Hear the word of the Lord Yahweh! The Lord Yahweh says, “Because you said, ‘Aha!’ against my sanctuary when it was profaned, and against the land of Israel when it was made desolate, and against the house of Judah when they went into captivity,
Ezekiel 25:6
For the Lord Yahweh says: “Because you have clapped your hands, stamped with the feet, and rejoiced with all the contempt of your soul against the land of Israel,
Ezekiel 25:15
“ ‘The Lord Yahweh says: “Because the Philistines have taken revenge, and have taken vengeance with contempt of soul to destroy with perpetual hostility,”
Zephaniah 2:8
I have heard the reproach of Moab and the insults of the children of Ammon, with which they have reproached my people and magnified themselves against their border.
Zephaniah 2:9
Therefore, as I live, says Yahweh of Armies, the God of Israel, surely Moab will be as Sodom, and the children of Ammon as Gomorrah, a possession of nettles and salt pits, and a perpetual desolation. The remnant of my people will plunder them, and the survivors of my nation will inherit them.
Zephaniah 2:10
This they will have for their pride, because they have reproached and magnified themselves against the people of Yahweh of Armies.
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Ezekiel 36:26
I will also give you a new heart, and I will put a new spirit within you. I will take away the stony heart out of your flesh, and I will give you a heart of flesh.
Ezekiel 36:27
I will put my Spirit within you, and cause you to walk in my statutes. You will keep my ordinances and do them.
Luke 1:74
to grant to us that we, being delivered out of the hand of our enemies, should serve him without fear,
Luke 1:75
in holiness and righteousness before him all the days of our life.
Acts 9:31
So the assemblies throughout all Judea, Galilee, and Samaria had peace and were built up. They were multiplied, walking in the fear of the Lord and in the comfort of the Holy Spirit.
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Job 5:5
whose harvest the hungry eat up, and take it even out of the thorns. The snare gapes for their substance.
Isaiah 42:14
“I have been silent a long time. I have been quiet and restrained myself. Now I will cry out like a travailing woman. I will both gasp and pant.
Amos 8:4
Hear this, you who desire to swallow up the needy, and cause the poor of the land to fail,
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Psalms 17:8
Keep me as the apple of your eye. Hide me under the shadow of your wings,
Psalms 17:9
from the wicked who oppress me, my deadly enemies, who surround me.
Psalms 31:14
But I trust in you, Yahweh. I said, “You are my God.”
Psalms 31:15
My times are in your hand. Deliver me from the hand of my enemies, and from those who persecute me.
Psalms 35:3
Brandish the spear and block those who pursue me. Tell my soul, “I am your salvation.”
Psalms 54:7
For he has delivered me out of all trouble. My eye has seen triumph over my enemies.
Psalms 56:11
I have put my trust in God. I will not be afraid. What can man do to me?
Psalms 91:1
He who dwells in the secret place of the Most High will rest in the shadow of the Almighty.
Psalms 118:6
Yahweh is on my side. I will not be afraid. What can man do to me?
Micah 7:9
I will bear the indignation of Yahweh, because I have sinned against him, until he pleads my case and executes judgment for me. He will bring me out to the light. I will see his righteousness.
Matthew 8:26
He said to them, “Why are you fearful, O you of little faith?” Then he got up, rebuked the wind and the sea, and there was a great calm.
Acts 18:9
The Lord said to Paul in the night by a vision, “Don’t be afraid, but speak and don’t be silent;
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Psalms 10:18
to judge the fatherless and the oppressed, that man who is of the earth may terrify no more.
Psalms 11:1
In Yahweh, I take refuge. How can you say to my soul, “Flee as a bird to your mountain”?
Psalms 21:7
For the king trusts in Yahweh. Through the loving kindness of the Most High, he shall not be moved.
Psalms 34:4
I sought Yahweh, and he answered me, and delivered me from all my fears.
Psalms 46:1
God is our refuge and strength, a very present help in trouble.
Psalms 46:2
Therefore we won’t be afraid, though the earth changes, though the mountains are shaken into the heart of the seas;
Psalms 61:7
He shall be enthroned in God’s presence forever. Appoint your loving kindness and truth, that they may preserve him.
Psalms 77:10
Then I thought, “I will appeal to this: the years of the right hand of the Most High.”
Psalms 91:2
I will say of Yahweh, “He is my refuge and my fortress; my God, in whom I trust.”
Micah 7:10
Then my enemy will see it, and shame will cover her who said to me, “Where is Yahweh your God?” My eyes will see her. Now she will be trodden down like the mire of the streets.
Romans 8:31
What then shall we say about these things? If God is for us, who can be against us?
Hebrews 13:6
So that with good courage we say, “The Lord is my helper. I will not fear. What can man do to me?”
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Psalms 18:16
He sent from on high. He took me. He drew me out of many waters.
Psalms 148:1
Praise Yah! Praise Yahweh from the heavens! Praise him in the heights!
Matthew 4:4
But he answered, “It is written, ‘Man shall not live by bread alone, but by every word that proceeds out of God’s mouth.’ ”
Matthew 4:6
and said to him, “If you are the Son of God, throw yourself down, for it is written, ‘He will command his angels concerning you,’ and, ‘On their hands they will bear you up, so that you don’t dash your foot against a stone.’ ”
Matthew 4:7
Jesus said to him, “Again, it is written, ‘You shall not test the Lord, your God.’ ”
Matthew 4:8
Again, the devil took him to an exceedingly high mountain, and showed him all the kingdoms of the world and their glory.
Matthew 4:9
He said to him, “I will give you all of these things, if you will fall down and worship me.”
Matthew 4:10
Then Jesus said to him, “Get behind me, Satan! For it is written, ‘You shall worship the Lord your God, and you shall serve him only.’ ”
Matthew 4:11
Then the devil left him, and behold, angels came and served him.
Revelation 16:14
for they are spirits of demons, performing signs, which go out to the kings of the whole inhabited earth, to gather them together for the war of that great day of God the Almighty.
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Luke 18:11
The Pharisee stood and prayed by himself like this: ‘God, I thank you that I am not like the rest of men: extortionists, unrighteous, adulterers, or even like this tax collector.
Luke 18:12
I fast twice a week. I give tithes of all that I get.’
Luke 18:13
But the tax collector, standing far away, wouldn’t even lift up his eyes to heaven, but beat his breast, saying, ‘God, be merciful to me, a sinner!’
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Numbers 23:24
Behold, a people rises up as a lioness. As a lion he lifts himself up. He shall not lie down until he eats of the prey, and drinks the blood of the slain.”
2 Samuel 16:11
David said to Abishai and to all his servants, “Behold, my son, who came out of my bowels, seeks my life. How much more this Benjamite, now? Leave him alone, and let him curse; for Yahweh has invited him.
2 Samuel 17:1
Moreover Ahithophel said to Absalom, “Let me now choose twelve thousand men, and I will arise and pursue after David tonight.
2 Samuel 17:4
The saying pleased Absalom well, and all the elders of Israel.
2 Samuel 17:16
Now therefore send quickly, and tell David, saying, ‘Don’t lodge tonight at the fords of the wilderness, but by all means pass over, lest the king be swallowed up, and all the people who are with him.’ ”
Job 31:31
if the men of my tent have not said, ‘Who can find one who has not been filled with his meat?’
Psalms 22:16
For dogs have surrounded me. A company of evildoers have enclosed me. They have pierced my hands and feet.
Psalms 27:12
Don’t deliver me over to the desire of my adversaries, for false witnesses have risen up against me, such as breathe out cruelty.
Psalms 143:3
For the enemy pursues my soul. He has struck my life down to the ground. He has made me live in dark places, as those who have been long dead.
Luke 22:2
The chief priests and the scribes sought how they might put him to death, for they feared the people.
Luke 23:5
But they insisted, saying, “He stirs up the people, teaching throughout all Judea, beginning from Galilee even to this place.”
Luke 23:21
but they shouted, saying, “Crucify! Crucify him!”
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Psalms 22:12
Many bulls have surrounded me. Strong bulls of Bashan have encircled me.
Psalms 56:5
All day long they twist my words. All their thoughts are against me for evil.
Psalms 119:157
Many are my persecutors and my adversaries. I haven’t swerved from your testimonies.
Psalms 123:3
Have mercy on us, Yahweh, have mercy on us, for we have endured much contempt.
Jeremiah 5:26
For wicked men are found among my people. They watch, as fowlers lie in wait. They set a trap. They catch men.
Matthew 24:9
“Then they will deliver you up to oppression and will kill you. You will be hated by all of the nations for my name’s sake.
Matthew 26:47
While he was still speaking, behold, Judas, one of the twelve, came, and with him a great multitude with swords and clubs, from the chief priests and elders of the people.
Luke 23:22
He said to them the third time, “Why? What evil has this man done? I have found no capital crime in him. I will therefore chastise him and release him.”
Luke 23:23
But they were urgent with loud voices, asking that he might be crucified. Their voices and the voices of the chief priests prevailed.
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Psalms 64:2
Hide me from the conspiracy of the wicked, from the noisy crowd of the ones doing evil;
Psalms 64:3
who sharpen their tongue like a sword, and aim their arrows, deadly words,
Psalms 64:4
to shoot innocent men from ambushes. They shoot at him suddenly and fearlessly.
Psalms 64:7
But God will shoot at them. They will be suddenly struck down with an arrow.
Psalms 64:8
Their own tongues shall ruin them. All who see them will shake their heads.
Acts 3:13
The God of Abraham, Isaac, and Jacob, the God of our fathers, has glorified his Servant Jesus, whom you delivered up and denied in the presence of Pilate, when he had determined to release him.
Acts 3:14
But you denied the Holy and Righteous One and asked for a murderer to be granted to you,
Acts 3:15
and killed the Prince of life, whom God raised from the dead, to which we are witnesses.
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Acts 4:25
who by the mouth of your servant David, said, ‘Why do the nations rage, and the peoples plot a vain thing?
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Acts 4:26
The kings of the earth take a stand, and the rulers take council together, against the Lord, and against his Christ.’
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Acts 12:1
Now about that time, King Herod stretched out his hands to oppress some of the assembly.
Acts 12:22
The people shouted, “The voice of a god, and not of a man!”
Acts 12:23
Immediately an angel of the Lord struck him, because he didn’t give God the glory. Then he was eaten by worms and died.
Acts 12:24
But the word of God grew and multiplied.
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Psalms 35:2
Take hold of shield and buckler, and stand up for my help.
Psalms 56:10
In God, I will praise his word. In Yahweh, I will praise his word.
Psalms 144:1
Blessed be Yahweh, my rock, who trains my hands to war, and my fingers to battle—
Psalms 144:2
my loving kindness, my fortress, my high tower, my deliverer, my shield, and he in whom I take refuge, who subdues my people under me.
Acts 18:10
for I am with you, and no one will attack you to harm you, for I have many people in this city.”
Acts 27:24
saying, ‘Don’t be afraid, Paul. You must stand before Caesar. Behold, God has granted you all those who sail with you.’
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Romans 8:35
Who shall separate us from the love of Christ? Could oppression, or anguish, or persecution, or famine, or nakedness, or peril, or sword?
2 Corinthians 12:10
Therefore I take pleasure in weaknesses, in injuries, in necessities, in persecutions, and in distresses, for Christ’s sake. For when I am weak, then am I strong.
James 1:2
Count it all joy, my brothers, when you fall into various temptations,
James 1:3
knowing that the testing of your faith produces endurance.
James 1:4
Let endurance have its perfect work, that you may be perfect and complete, lacking in nothing.
1 Peter 1:6
In this you greatly rejoice, though now for a little while, if need be, you have been grieved in various trials,
1 Peter 1:7
that the proof of your faith, which is more precious than gold that perishes, even though it is tested by fire, may be found to result in praise, glory, and honor at the revelation of Jesus Christ—
1 Peter 4:12
Beloved, don’t be astonished at the fiery trial which has come upon you to test you, as though a strange thing happened to you.
1 Peter 4:13
But because you are partakers of Christ’s sufferings, rejoice, that at the revelation of his glory you also may rejoice with exceeding joy.
1 Peter 4:14
If you are insulted for the name of Christ, you are blessed, because the Spirit of glory and of God rests on you. On their part he is blasphemed, but on your part he is glorified.
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1 Samuel 28:15
Samuel said to Saul, “Why have you disturbed me, to bring me up?” Saul answered, “I am very distressed; for the Philistines make war against me, and God has departed from me, and answers me no more, by prophets, or by dreams. Therefore I have called you, that you may make known to me what I shall do.”
1 Samuel 30:6
David was greatly distressed, for the people spoke of stoning him, because the souls of all the people were grieved, every man for his sons and for his daughters; but David strengthened himself in Yahweh his God.
Proverbs 14:26
In the fear of Yahweh is a secure fortress, and he will be a refuge for his children.
Proverbs 18:10
Yahweh’s name is a strong tower: the righteous run to him, and are safe.
Romans 5:3
Not only this, but we also rejoice in our sufferings, knowing that suffering produces perseverance;
Romans 5:4
and perseverance, proven character; and proven character, hope;
Romans 5:5
and hope doesn’t disappoint us, because God’s love has been poured into our hearts through the Holy Spirit who was given to us.
Romans 8:36
Even as it is written, “For your sake we are killed all day long. We were accounted as sheep for the slaughter.”
Romans 8:37
No, in all these things we are more than conquerors through him who loved us.
2 Corinthians 4:8
We are pressed on every side, yet not crushed; perplexed, yet not to despair;
2 Corinthians 4:16
Therefore we don’t faint, but though our outward person is decaying, yet our inward person is renewed day by day.
2 Corinthians 4:17
For our light affliction, which is for the moment, works for us more and more exceedingly an eternal weight of glory,
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Hebrews 7:1
For this Melchizedek, king of Salem, priest of God Most High, who met Abraham returning from the slaughter of the kings and blessed him,
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