O God, the proud have risen up against me, and a company of violent men have sought after my soul, and have not set thee before them.

but those who seek my soul, to destroy it, shall go into the lower parts of the earth.

Let them be put to shame and confounded who seek after my soul. Let them be turned backward and brought to dishonor who delight in my hurt.

The wicked have waited for me, to destroy me. I will consider thy testimonies.

And David fled from Naioth in Ramah, and came and said before Jonathan, What have I done? What is my iniquity? and what is my sin before thy father, that he seeks my life?

Lord, they have killed thy prophets, and they have torn down thine altars, and I am left alone, and they seek my life.

For I have heard the slander of many. Fear [was] on every side, while they took counsel together against me. They devised to take away my life.

Yet, LORD, thou know all their counsel against me to kill me. Do not forgive their iniquity, nor blot out their sin from thy sight, but let them be overthrown before thee. Deal thou with them in the time of thine anger.

For strangers are risen up against me, and violent men have sought after my soul. They have not set God before them. Selah.

Those also who seek after my life lay snares [for me]. And those who seek my hurt speak mischievous things, and meditate deceits all the day long.

And they said to the king, The man who consumed us, and who devised against us, [that] we should be destroyed from remaining in any of the borders of Israel,

And David said to Abishai, and to all his servants, Behold, my son, who came forth from my bowels, seeks my life. How much more [may] this Benjamite now [do it]? Let him alone, and let him curse, for LORD has bidden him.

Let them be put to shame and brought to dishonor who seek after my soul. Let them be turned back and confounded who devise my hurt.

Let them be put to shame and confounded together who seek after my soul to destroy it. Let them be turned backward and brought to dishonor who delight in my hurt.

And he said, Who made thee a prince and a judge over us? Do thou think to kill me, as thou killed the Egyptian? And Moses feared, and said, Surely the thing is known.

Do thou not want to kill me, as thou killed the Egyptian yesterday?

Abide thou with me. Fear not, for he who seeks my life seeks thy life, for with me thou shall be in safeguard.

Who will separate us from the love of Christ? Will tribulation, or restriction, or persecution, or famine, or nakedness, or peril, or sword?