Psalms 25:19

David asks God to consider his many enemies who hate him with violent hatred. He brings the reality of fierce opposition before God.

Cross-references · 20

• Ps 86:14The arrogant rise against me, O God; a band of ruthless men seeks my life, with no regard for You.
• Ps 143:3For the enemy has pursued my soul, crushing my life to the ground, making me dwell in darkness like those long since dead.
• Ps 38:19Many are my enemies without cause, and many hate me without reason.
• Ps 57:4My soul is among the lions; I lie down with ravenous beasts—with men whose teeth are spears and arrows, whose tongues are sharp swords.
• Ps 140:11May no slanderer be established in the land; may calamity hunt down the man of violence.
• Ps 52:2Your tongue devises destruction like a sharpened razor, O worker of deceit.
• Ps 140:1For the choirmaster. A Psalm of David. Rescue me, O LORD, from evil men. Protect me from men of violence,
• Luke 22:2and the chief priests and scribes were looking for a way to put Jesus to death; for they feared the people.
• Ps 3:1–2A Psalm of David, when he fled from his son Absalom. O LORD, how my foes have increased! How many rise up against me!
• Ps 27:12Do not hand me over to the will of my foes, for false witnesses rise up against me, breathing out violence.
• Ps 56:2My enemies pursue me all day long, for many proudly assail me.
• Ps 140:4Guard me, O LORD, from the hands of the wicked. Keep me safe from men of violence who scheme to make me stumble.
• Luke 23:5But they kept insisting, “He stirs up the people all over Judea with His teaching. He began in Galilee and has come all the way here.”
• Ps 18:48who delivers me from my enemies. You exalt me above my foes; You rescue me from violent men.
• Ps 27:2When the wicked came upon me to devour my flesh, my enemies and foes stumbled and fell.
• 2 Sam 17:2–4I will attack him while he is weak and weary; I will throw him into a panic, and all the people with him will flee; I will strike down only the king
• Ps 11:5The LORD tests the righteous and the wicked; His soul hates the lover of violence.
• 2 Sam 16:11Then David said to Abishai and to all his servants, “Behold, my own son, my own flesh and blood, seeks my life. How much more, then, this Benjamite! Leave him alone and let him curse me, for the LORD has told him so.
• Luke 23:21–23but they kept shouting, “Crucify Him! Crucify Him!”
• Ps 138:7If I walk in the midst of trouble, You preserve me from the anger of my foes; You extend Your hand, and Your right hand saves me.

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