Psalm 56:1

A Call For God's Protection

¹ For the choir director; according to Jonath elem rehokim. A Mikhtam of David, when the Philistines seized him in Gath.
Be gracious to me, O God, for man has trampled upon me;
Fighting all day long he oppresses me.
² my enemies trample on me all day long, for many attack me proudly.

All Day Long

Be Merciful

Have Mercy

Be Gracious

O God

David

Gath

Michtam

Philistines

Psalm 16:1

Preserve me, O God, for in you I take refuge.

Psalm 27:2

When evildoers assail me to eat up my flesh, my adversaries and foes, it is they who stumble and fall.

Psalm 57:1-3

Be merciful to me, O God, be merciful to me, for in you my soul takes refuge; in the shadow of your wings I will take refuge, till the storms of destruction pass by.

Psalm 69:13-16

But as for me, my prayer is to you, O LORD. At an acceptable time, O God, in the abundance of your steadfast love answer me in your saving faithfulness.

1 Samuel 21:11-15

And the servants of Achish said to him, "Is not this David the king of the land? Did they not sing to one another of him in dances, 'Saul has struck down his thousands, and David his ten thousands'?"

1 Samuel 29:4

But the commanders of the Philistines were angry with him. And the commanders of the Philistines said to him, "Send the man back, that he may return to the place to which you have assigned him. He shall not go down with us to battle, lest in the battle he become an adversary to us. For how could this fellow reconcile himself to his lord? Would it not be with the heads of the men here?

Psalm 21:9

You will make them as a blazing oven when you appear. The LORD will swallow them up in his wrath, and fire will consume them.

Psalm 31:9

Be gracious to me, O LORD, for I am in distress; my eye is wasted from grief; my soul and my body also.

Psalm 35:25

Let them not say in their hearts, "Aha, our heart's desire!" Let them not say, "We have swallowed him up."

Psalm 58:1

Do you indeed decree what is right, you gods? Do you judge the children of man uprightly?

Psalm 59:1

Deliver me from my enemies, O my God; protect me from those who rise up against me;

Psalm 59:10

My God in his steadfast lovewill meet me; God will let me look in triumph on my enemies.

Psalm 60:1

O God, you have rejected us, broken our defenses; you have been angry; oh, restore us.

Psalm 106:17

the earth opened and swallowed up Dathan, and covered the company of Abiram.

Psalm 124:3

then they would have swallowed us up alive, when their anger was kindled against us;

Psalm 136:10

to him who struck down the firstborn of Egypt, for his steadfast love endures forever;

Psalm 136:15

but overthrew Pharaoh and his host in the Red Sea, for his steadfast love endures forever;

Psalm 136:17-20

to him who struck down great kings, for his steadfast love endures forever;

Psalm 143:12

And in your steadfast love you will cut off my enemies, and you will destroy all the adversaries of my soul, for I am your servant.

Proverbs 1:12

like Sheol let us swallow them alive, and whole, like those who go down to the pit;

Lamentations 2:2

The Lord has swallowed up without mercy all the habitations of Jacob; in his wrath he has broken down the strongholds of the daughter of Judah; he has brought down to the ground in dishonor the kingdom and its rulers.

Lamentations 2:5

The Lord has become like an enemy; he has swallowed up Israel; he has swallowed up all its palaces; he has laid in ruins its strongholds, and he has multiplied in the daughter of Judah mourning and lamentation.

Lamentations 2:16

All your enemies rail against you; they hiss, they gnash their teeth, they cry: "We have swallowed her! Ah, this is the day we longed for; now we have it; we see it!"

Hosea 8:8

Israel is swallowed up; already they are among the nations as a useless vessel.

1 Corinthians 15:54

When the perishable puts on the imperishable, and the mortal puts on immortality, then shall come to pass the saying that is written: "Death is swallowed up in victory."