O God, the proud are risen against me; and the congregation of the mighty seeketh after my soul, and have not set thee before their eyes.

These also that seek the hurt of my soul, they shall go under the earth.

Let them be ashamed and confounded that seek after my soul; let them be turned backward, and put to confusion that wish me evil.

The ungodly lay wait for me to destroy me, but I consider thy testimonies.

And David fled from Naioth in Ramah and went and said before Jonathan, "What have I done? Wherein am I faulty? What is the sin that I have committed before thy father that he seeketh my life?"

"Lord they have killed thy prophets and digged down thine altars: and I am left only, and they seek my life."

For I have heard the blasphemy of the multitude, and fear is on every side, while they conspire together against me, and take their counsel to take away my life.

Yet LORD, thou knowest all their counsel that they have devised, to slay me. And therefore forgive them not their wickedness, and let not their sin be put out of thy sight: but let them be judged before thee as the guilty: This shalt thou do unto them in the time of thy indignation.

For strangers are risen up against me; and tyrants, which have not God before their eyes, seek after my soul. Selah.

They also that sought after my life laid snares for me; and they that went about to do me evil talked of wickedness, and imagined deceit all the day long.

And they said unto the king, "The man that consumed and imagined to bring us to nought, him we ought to destroy, that nought of him continue in any of the coasts of Israel.

And David said to Abishai, and to all his servants, "Behold, my son which came out of mine own bowels seeketh my life. How much more may this son of Benjamin do it? Suffer him therefore to curse, for the LORD hath bidden him.

Let them be confounded, and put to shame, that seek after my soul; let them be turned back and brought to confusion, that imagine mischief for me.

Let them be ashamed and confounded together, that seek after my soul to destroy it; let them be driven backward, and put to rebuke, that wish me evil.

And he answered, "Who hath made thee a ruler or a judge over us? Intendest thou to kill me, as thou killedst the Egyptian?" Then Moses feared and said, "Of a surety the thing is known."

What, wilt thou kill me, as thou didst the Egyptian yesterday?'

Abide with me and fear not: he that seeketh thy soul shall seek mine, and with me thou shalt be in safeguard."

Who shall separate us from the love of God? Shall tribulation? Or anguish? Or persecution, other hunger? Other nakedness? Other peril? Other sword?