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 a stranger to my brothers and a foreigner to my mother's sons,
Psalm 86:14
O God, arrogant men have risen up against me, even a gang of ruthless men seek my life, but they do not set you before them.
Job 19:13
"He has removed my kinsfolk from me, and my acquaintances have only turned aside from me.

Oppressors

Psalm 22:16
Because dogs have surrounded me; a gang of evildoers has encircled me. Like the lion [they are at] my hands and my feet.
Psalm 59:3
For look, they lie in wait for my life. The mighty attack against me, not [because of] my transgression or my sin, O Yahweh.
Matthew 27:20
But the chief priests and the elders persuaded the crowds that they should ask for Barabbas and put Jesus to death.

They have

Psalm 16:8
I have set Yahweh before me always. Because [he is] at my right hand I will not be shaken.
Psalm 36:1
An oracle: the wicked has rebellion in the midst of his heart. There is no fear of God before his eyes.
Psalm 53:4
Do not evildoers know, [they] who eat my people [as though] they were eating bread? They do not call on God.
John 16:3
And they will do these [things] because they do not know the Father or me.