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.

Bible References

The enemy

Psalm 7:1
O Jehovah my God, in thee do I take refuge: Save me from all them that pursue me, and deliver me,
Psalm 17:9
From the wicked that oppress me, My deadly enemies, that compass me about.
Psalm 35:4
Let them be put to shame and brought to dishonor that seek after my soul: Let them be turned back and confounded that devise my hurt.
Psalm 54:3
For strangers are risen up against me, And violent men have sought after my soul: They have not set God before them. Selah
Psalm 142:6
Attend unto my cry; For I am brought very low: Deliver me from my persecutors; For they are stronger than I.

Smitten

Psalm 7:5
Let the enemy pursue my soul, and overtake it; Yea, let him tread my life down to the earth, And lay my glory in the dust. Selah
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?
2 Samuel 18:11
And Joab said unto the man that told him, And, behold, thou sawest it, and why didst thou not smite him there to the ground? and I would have given thee ten pieces of'silver, and a girdle.

Made me

Psalm 31:12
I am forgotten as a dead man out of mind: I am like a broken vessel.
Psalm 88:4
I am reckoned with them that go down into the pit; I am as a man that hath no help,
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 up, and our hope is lost; we are clean cut off.

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