Psalm 143:3

Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

Summary

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.

The enemy

Psalm 142:6

Smitten

Psalm 7:5

2 Samuel 2:22

2 Samuel 18:11

Made me

Psalm 31:12

Psalm 88:4

Ezekiel 37:11

Bible References

The enemy

A Shiggaion of David, which he sang to the Lord

concerning Cush, a Benjamite.

O Lord my God, in You I have taken refuge;
Save me from all those who pursue me, and deliver me,

From the wicked who despoil me,
My deadly enemies who surround me.

Let those be ashamed and dishonored who seek my life;
Let those be turned back and humiliated who devise evil against me.

For strangers have risen against me
And violent men have sought my life;
They have not set God before them.

Selah.

“Give heed to my cry,
For I am brought very low;
Deliver me from my persecutors,
For they are too strong for me.

Smitten

Let the enemy pursue my soul and overtake it;
And let him trample my life down to the ground
And lay my glory in the dust.

Selah.

Abner repeated again to Asahel, “Turn aside from following me. Why should I strike you to the ground? How then could I lift up my face to your brother Joab?”

Then Joab said to the man who had told him, “Now behold, you saw him! Why then did you not strike him there to the ground? And I would have given you ten pieces of silver and a belt.”

Made me

I am forgotten as a dead man, out of mind;
I am like a broken vessel.

I am reckoned among those who go down to the pit;
I have become like a man without strength,

Then He said to me, “Son of man, these bones are the whole house of Israel; behold, they say, ‘Our bones are dried up and our hope has perished. We are completely cut off.’