Psalm 7:5

Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

Summary

Let the enemy persecute my soul, and take it; yea, let him tread down my life upon the earth, and lay mine honour in the dust. Selah.

Tread

Lay

General references

1 John 3:21

Bible References

Tread

Through you will we overcome our haters; by your name will they be crushed under our feet who are violent against us.

Send destruction on all who are lifted up, pulling down the sinners from their places.

I will send him against a nation of wrongdoers, and against the people of my wrath I will give him orders, to take their wealth in war, crushing them down like the dust in the streets.

I have been crushing the grapes by myself, and of the peoples there was no man with me: in my wrath and in my passion, they were crushed under my feet; and my robes are marked with their life-blood, and all my clothing is red.

Together they will be like men of war, crushing down their haters into the earth of the streets in the fight; they will make war because the Lord is with them: and the horsemen will be shamed.

And the evil-doers will be crushed under you, they will be dust under your feet, in the day when I do my work, says the Lord of armies.

Lay

But man, like the animals, does not go on for ever; he comes to an end like the beasts.

I have made haircloth the clothing of my skin, and my horn is rolled in the dust.

Let them be covered together in the dust; let their faces be dark in the secret place of the underworld.

O Lord, the hope of Israel, all who give you up will be put to shame; those who go away from you will be cut off from the earth, because they have given up the Lord, the fountain of living waters.

General references

My loved ones, if our heart does not say that we have done wrong, we have no fear before him;