Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

Summary

For strangers are risen up against me, and oppressors seek after my soul: they have not set God before them. Selah.

Bible References

Strangers

Psalm 69:8

I have become estranged from my brothers
And an alien to my mother’s sons.
Psalm 86:14

O God, arrogant and insolent men have risen up against me;
A band of violent men have sought my life,
And they have not set You before them.
Job 19:13

“He has put my brothers far from me,
And my acquaintances are completely estranged from me.

Oppressors

Psalm 22:16

For [a pack of] dogs have surrounded me;
A gang of evildoers has encircled me,
They pierced my hands and my feet.
Psalm 59:3

Look! They lie in wait for my life;
Fierce and powerful men [are uniting together to] launch an attack against me,
Not for my wrongdoing nor for any sin of mine, O Lord.
Matthew 27:20
But the chief priests and the elders persuaded the crowds to ask for Barabbas and to put Jesus to death.

They have

Psalm 16:8

I have set the Lord continually before me;
Because He is at my right hand, I will not be shaken.
Psalm 36:1
Transgression speaks [like an oracle] to the wicked (godless) [deep] within his heart;
There is no fear (dread) of God before his eyes.
Psalm 53:4

Have workers of wickedness no knowledge or no understanding?
They eat up My people as though they ate bread
And have not called upon God.
John 16:3
And they will do these things because they have not known the Father or Me.