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hold
Psalm 28:1 To you will I cry, O LORD my rock; be not silent to me: lest, if …
Psalm 35:22,23 This you have seen, O LORD: keep not silence: O Lord, be not far from me…
Psalm 83:1 Keep not you silence, O God: hold not your peace, and be not still, O God.
Isaiah 42:14 I have long time held my peace; I have been still, and refrained …
O God
Psalm 118:28 You are my God, and I will praise you: you are my God, I will exalt you.
Exodus 15:2 The LORD is my strength and song, and he is become my salvation: …
Deuteronomy 10:21 He is your praise, and he is your God, that has done for you these …
Jeremiah 17:14 Heal me, O LORD, and I shall be healed; save me, and I shall be saved: …
For the mouth of the wicked and the mouth of the deceitful are opened against me: they have spoken against me with a lying tongue.
the mouth
Psalm 31:13,18 For I have heard the slander of many: fear was on every side: while …
Psalm 64:3,4 Who whet their tongue like a sword, and bend their bows to shoot …
Psalm 140:3 They have sharpened their tongues like a serpent; adders' poison …
2 Samuel 15:3-8 And Absalom said to him, See, your matters are good and right; but …
2 Samuel 17:1 Moreover Ahithophel said to Absalom, Let me now choose out twelve …
Proverbs 15:28 The heart of the righteous studies to answer: but the mouth of the …
Matthew 26:59-62 Now the chief priests, and elders, and all the council, sought false …
of the deceitful. Heb. of deceit
are opened. Heb. have opened
themselves with
Psalm 120:3 What shall be given to you? or what shall be done to you, you false tongue?
Proverbs 6:17 A proud look, a lying tongue, and hands that shed innocent blood,
Proverbs 12:19 The lip of truth shall be established for ever: but a lying tongue …
Jeremiah 9:3,5 And they bend their tongues like their bow for lies: but they are …
Acts 6:13 And set up false witnesses, which said, This man ceases not to speak …
They compassed me about also with words of hatred; and fought against me without a cause.
compassed
Psalm 17:11 They have now compassed us in our steps: they have set their eyes …
Psalm 22:12 Many bulls have compassed me: strong bulls of Bashan have beset me round.
Psalm 88:17 They came round about me daily like water; they compassed me about together.
2 Samuel 16:7,8 And thus said Shimei when he cursed, Come out, come out, you bloody …
Hosea 11:12 Ephraim compasses me about with lies, and the house of Israel with …
fought
Psalm 35:7,20 For without cause have they hid for me their net in a pit, which …
Psalm 59:3,4 For, see, they lie in wait for my soul: the mighty are gathered against …
Psalm 69:4 They that hate me without a cause are more than the hairs of my head: …
1 Samuel 19:4,5 And Jonathan spoke good of David to Saul his father, and said to …
1 Samuel 26:18 And he said, Why does my lord thus pursue after his servant? for …
2 Samuel 15:12 And Absalom sent for Ahithophel the Gilonite, David's counselor, …
John 15:24,25 If I had not done among them the works which none other man did, …
For my love they are my adversaries: but I give myself unto prayer.
for my
Psalm 35:7,12 For without cause have they hid for me their net in a pit, which …
Psalm 38:20 They also that render evil for good are my adversaries; because I …
2 Samuel 13:39 And the soul of king David longed to go forth to Absalom: for he …
John 10:32 Jesus answered them, Many good works have I showed you from my Father; …
2 Corinthians 12:15 And I will very gladly spend and be spent for you; though the more …
but I
Psalm 55:16,17 As for me, I will call on God; and the LORD shall save me…
Psalm 69:12,13 They that sit in the gate speak against me; and I was the song of …
2 Samuel 15:31,32 And one told David, saying, Ahithophel is among the conspirators …
Daniel 6:10 Now when Daniel knew that the writing was signed, he went into his …
Luke 6:11,12 And they were filled with madness; and communed one with another …
Luke 23:34 Then said Jesus, Father, forgive them; for they know not what they …
And they have rewarded me evil for good, and hatred for my love.
they
Psalm 35:7-12 For without cause have they hid for me their net in a pit, which …
Genesis 44:4 And when they were gone out of the city, and not yet far off, Joseph …
Proverbs 17:13 Whoever rewards evil for good, evil shall not depart from his house.
hatred
Psalm 55:12-15 For it was not an enemy that reproached me; then I could have borne it…
2 Samuel 15:12,31 And Absalom sent for Ahithophel the Gilonite, David's counselor, …
Mark 14:44,45 And he that betrayed him had given them a token, saying, Whomsoever …
Luke 6:16 And Judas the brother of James, and Judas Iscariot, which also was the traitor.
Luke 22:47,48 And while he yet spoke, behold a multitude, and he that was called …
John 13:18 I speak not of you all: I know whom I have chosen: but that the scripture …
Set thou a wicked man over him: and let Satan stand at his right hand.
set thou. Dr. Sykes, Michaelis, and others, contend that these imprecations are those of David's enemies against himself; and they would render, Set say they, a wicked, etc; but this is rendered highly improbable by the
Matthew 27:4 Saying, I have sinned in that I have betrayed the innocent blood. …
and let
Zechariah 3:1 And he showed me Joshua the high priest standing before the angel …
John 13:2,27 And supper being ended, the devil having now put into the heart of …
Satan, or, an adversary
Matthew 5:25 Agree with your adversary quickly, whiles you are in the way with …
When he shall be judged, let him be condemned: and let his prayer become sin.
be condemned. Heb. go out guilty, or wicked
Romans 3:19 Now we know that what things soever the law said, it said to them …
Galatians 3:10 For as many as are of the works of the law are under the curse: for …
and let
2 Samuel 15:7,8 And it came to pass after forty years, that Absalom said to the king, …
Proverbs 15:8 The sacrifice of the wicked is an abomination to the LORD: but the …
Proverbs 21:27 The sacrifice of the wicked is abomination: how much more, when he …
Proverbs 28:9 He that turns away his ear from hearing the law, even his prayer …
Isaiah 1:15 And when you spread forth your hands, I will hide my eyes from you: …
Isaiah 66:3 He that kills an ox is as if he slew a man; he that sacrifices a …
Matthew 23:14 Woe to you, scribes and Pharisees, hypocrites! for you devour widows' …
Let his days be few; and let another take his office.
Let his children be fatherless, and his wife a widow.
Let his children be continually vagabonds, and beg: let them seek their bread also out of their desolate places.
Let the extortioner catch all that he hath; and let the strangers spoil his labour.
extortioner
Job 5:5 Whose harvest the hungry eats up, and takes it even out of the thorns, …
Job 18:9-19 The gin shall take him by the heel, and the robber shall prevail against him…
Job 20:18 That which he labored for shall he restore, and shall not swallow …
strangers
Deuteronomy 28:29,33,34,50,51 And you shall grope at noonday, as the blind gropes in darkness, …
Judges 6:3-6 And so it was, when Israel had sown, that the Midianites came up, …
Let there be none to extend mercy unto him: neither let there be any to favour his fatherless children.
none
Isaiah 27:11 When the boughs thereof are withered, they shall be broken off: the …
Luke 6:38 Give, and it shall be given to you; good measure, pressed down, and …
James 2:13 For he shall have judgment without mercy, that has showed no mercy; …
favour
Psalm 137:8,9 O daughter of Babylon, who are to be destroyed; happy shall he be, …
Isaiah 13:18 Their bows also shall dash the young men to pieces; and they shall …
Matthew 27:25 Then answered all the people, and said, His blood be on us, and on our children.
Luke 11:50,51 That the blood of all the prophets, which was shed from the foundation …
Let his posterity be cut off; and in the generation following let their name be blotted out.
let his
Psalm 37:28 For the LORD loves judgment, and forsakes not his saints; they are …
1 Samuel 2:31-33 Behold, the days come, that I will cut off your arm, and the arm …
1 Samuel 3:13 For I have told him that I will judge his house for ever for the …
2 Kings 10:10,11 Know now that there shall fall to the earth nothing of the word of …
Job 18:19 He shall neither have son nor nephew among his people, nor any remaining …
Isaiah 14:20-22 You shall not be joined with them in burial, because you have destroyed …
Jeremiah 22:30 Thus said the LORD, Write you this man childless, a man that shall …
their name
Deuteronomy 9:14 Let me alone, that I may destroy them, and blot out their name from …
Deuteronomy 25:19 Therefore it shall be, when the LORD your God has given you rest …
Deuteronomy 29:20 The LORD will not spare him, but then the anger of the LORD and his …
Proverbs 10:7 The memory of the just is blessed: but the name of the wicked shall rot.
Let the iniquity of his fathers be remembered with the LORD; and let not the sin of his mother be blotted out.
let the
Exodus 20:5 You shall not bow down yourself to them, nor serve them: for I the …
Leviticus 26:39 And they that are left of you shall pine away in their iniquity in …
2 Samuel 3:29 Let it rest on the head of Joab, and on all his father's house; and …
2 Samuel 21:1,8,9 Then there was a famine in the days of David three years, year after …
Matthew 23:31-36 Why you be witnesses to yourselves, that you are the children of …
let not
2 Kings 8:27 And he walked in the way of the house of Ahab, and did evil in the …
2 Kings 9:27 But when Ahaziah the king of Judah saw this, he fled by the way of …
2 Kings 10:13,14 Jehu met with the brothers of Ahaziah king of Judah, and said, Who …
2 Kings 11:1 And when Athaliah the mother of Ahaziah saw that her son was dead, …
2 Chronicles 22:3,4 He also walked in the ways of the house of Ahab: for his mother was …
blotted
Nehemiah 4:5 And cover not their iniquity, and let not their sin be blotted out …
Isaiah 43:25 I, even I, am he that blots out your transgressions for my own sake, …
Jeremiah 18:23 Yet, LORD, you know all their counsel against me to slay me: forgive …
Let them be before the LORD continually, that he may cut off the memory of them from the earth.
Because that he remembered not to shew mercy, but persecuted the poor and needy man, that he might even slay the broken in heart.
he remembered
2 Samuel 17:1,2 Moreover Ahithophel said to Absalom, Let me now choose out twelve …
Matthew 5:7 Blessed are the merciful: for they shall obtain mercy.
Matthew 18:33-35 Should not you also have had compassion on your fellow servant, even …
James 2:13 For he shall have judgment without mercy, that has showed no mercy; …
persecuted
Psalm 10:2,14 The wicked in his pride does persecute the poor: let them be taken …
Genesis 42:21 And they said one to another, We are truly guilty concerning our …
Job 19:2,3,21,22 How long will you vex my soul, and break me in pieces with words…
Matthew 27:35-46 And they crucified him, and parted his garments, casting lots: that …
slay
Psalm 34:18 The LORD is near to them that are of a broken heart; and saves such …
Psalm 69:20-29 Reproach has broken my heart; and I am full of heaviness: and I looked …
2 Samuel 16:11,12 And David said to Abishai, and to all his servants, Behold, my son, …
Mark 14:34-36 And said to them, My soul is exceeding sorrowful to death: tarry …
As he loved cursing, so let it come unto him: as he delighted not in blessing, so let it be far from him.
Psalm 52:4,5 You love all devouring words, O you deceitful tongue…
Psalm 59:12,13 For the sin of their mouth and the words of their lips let them even …
Proverbs 14:14 The backslider in heart shall be filled with his own ways: and a …
Ezekiel 35:6 Therefore, as I live, said the Lord GOD, I will prepare you to blood, …
Matthew 7:2 For with what judgment you judge, you shall be judged: and with what …
2 Thessalonians 2:10,11 And with all delusion of unrighteousness in them that perish; because …
Revelation 16:6 For they have shed the blood of saints and prophets, and you have …
As he clothed himself with cursing like as with his garment, so let it come into his bowels like water, and like oil into his bones.
as he
Psalm 73:6 Therefore pride compasses them about as a chain; violence covers …
Job 29:14 I put on righteousness, and it clothed me: my judgment was as a robe …
Colossians 3:8,12 But now you also put off all these; anger, wrath, malice, blasphemy, …
1 Peter 5:5 Likewise, you younger, submit yourselves to the elder. Yes, all of …
so let
Numbers 5:22,27 And this water that causes the curse shall go into your bowels, to …
Job 20:12-16,20-23 Though wickedness be sweet in his mouth, though he hide it under his tongue…
Matthew 26:24 The Son of man goes as it is written of him…
Matthew 27:3-5 Then Judas, which had betrayed him, when he saw that he was condemned, …
Acts 1:18,25 Now this man purchased a field with the reward of iniquity; and falling …
into his bowels. Heb. within him
Let it be unto him as the garment which covereth him, and for a girdle wherewith he is girded continually.
Let this be the reward of mine adversaries from the LORD, and of them that speak evil against my soul.
let this
Psalm 2:5,6,12 Then shall he speak to them in his wrath, and vex them in his sore …
Psalm 21:8-12 Your hand shall find out all your enemies: your right hand shall …
Psalm 40:14,15 Let them be ashamed and confounded together that seek after my soul …
Psalm 110:1,5,6 The LORD said to my Lord, Sit you at my right hand, until I make …
2 Samuel 17:23 And when Ahithophel saw that his counsel was not followed, he saddled …
2 Samuel 18:32 And the king said to Cushi, Is the young man Absalom safe? And Cushi …
1 Kings 2:44 The king said moreover to Shimei, You know all the wickedness which …
Luke 19:27 But those my enemies, which would not that I should reign over them, …
1 Thessalonians 2:15,16 Who both killed the Lord Jesus, and their own prophets, and have …
them
Matthew 11:19 The Son of man came eating and drinking, and they say, Behold a man …
Matthew 12:24 But when the Pharisees heard it, they said, This fellow does not …
Matthew 26:66,67 What think you? They answered and said, He is guilty of death…
Mark 9:39 But Jesus said, Forbid him not: for there is no man which shall do …
1 Corinthians 12:3 Why I give you to understand, that no man speaking by the Spirit …
But do thou for me, O GOD the Lord, for thy name's sake: because thy mercy is good, deliver thou me.
but do
Psalm 25:11 For your name's sake, O LORD, pardon my iniquity; for it is great.
Psalm 31:3 For you are my rock and my fortress; therefore for your name's sake …
Psalm 69:29 But I am poor and sorrowful: let your salvation, O God, set me up on high.
Psalm 79:9,10 Help us, O God of our salvation, for the glory of your name: and …
Psalm 143:11,12 Quicken me, O LORD, for your name's sake: for your righteousness' …
John 17:1 These words spoke Jesus, and lifted up his eyes to heaven, and said, …
Philippians 2:8-11 And being found in fashion as a man, he humbled himself, and became …
they mercy
Psalm 36:7-9 How excellent is your loving kindness, O God! therefore the children …
Psalm 63:3 Because your loving kindness is better than life, my lips shall praise you.
Psalm 86:5,15 For you, Lord, are good, and ready to forgive; and plenteous in mercy …
For I am poor and needy, and my heart is wounded within me.
for I
Psalm 22:6 But I am a worm, and no man; a reproach of men, and despised of the people.
Psalm 40:17 But I am poor and needy; yet the Lord thinks on me: you are my help …
Psalm 86:1 Bow down your ear, O LORD, hear me: for I am poor and needy.
Psalm 102:17-20 He will regard the prayer of the destitute, and not despise their prayer…
Matthew 8:20 And Jesus said to him, The foxes have holes, and the birds of the …
2 Corinthians 8:9 For you know the grace of our Lord Jesus Christ, that, though he …
and my
Psalm 109:16 Because that he remembered not to show mercy, but persecuted the …
Psalm 88:15,16 I am afflicted and ready to die from my youth up: while I suffer …
Psalm 102:4 My heart is smitten, and withered like grass; so that I forget to eat my bread.
2 Kings 4:27 And when she came to the man of God to the hill, she caught him by …
Job 6:4 For the arrows of the Almighty are within me, the poison whereof …
Isaiah 53:3 He is despised and rejected of men; a man of sorrows, and acquainted …
Luke 22:44 And being in an agony he prayed more earnestly: and his sweat was …
John 12:27 Now is my soul troubled; and what shall I say? Father, save me from …
I am gone like the shadow when it declineth: I am tossed up and down as the locust.
My knees are weak through fasting; and my flesh faileth of fatness.
knees
Psalm 22:14 I am poured out like water, and all my bones are out of joint: my …
Psalm 35:13,14 But as for me, when they were sick, my clothing was sackcloth: I …
Psalm 69:10 When I wept, and chastened my soul with fasting, that was to my reproach.
Matthew 4:2 And when he had fasted forty days and forty nights, he was afterward …
2 Corinthians 11:27 In weariness and painfulness, in watchings often, in hunger and thirst, …
Hebrews 12:12 Why lift up the hands which hang down, and the feeble knees;
my flesh
Psalm 32:3,4 When I kept silence, my bones waxed old through my roaring all the day long…
Psalm 38:5-8 My wounds stink and are corrupt because of my foolishness…
Psalm 102:4,5 My heart is smitten, and withered like grass; so that I forget to …
Job 19:20 My bone sticks to my skin and to my flesh, and I am escaped with …
I became also a reproach unto them: when they looked upon me they shaked their heads.
a reproach
Psalm 31:11-13 I was a reproach among all my enemies, but especially among my neighbors, …
Psalm 35:15,16 But in my adversity they rejoiced, and gathered themselves together: …
Psalm 69:9-12,19,20 For the zeal of your house has eaten me up; and the reproaches of …
Romans 15:3 For even Christ pleased not himself; but, as it is written, The reproaches …
Hebrews 12:2 Looking to Jesus the author and finisher of our faith; who for the …
Hebrews 13:13 Let us go forth therefore to him without the camp, bearing his reproach.
when they
Psalm 22:6,7 But I am a worm, and no man; a reproach of men, and despised of the people…
Job 16:4 I also could speak as you do: if your soul were in my soul's stead, …
Isaiah 37:22 This is the word which the LORD has spoken concerning him; The virgin, …
Matthew 27:39,40 And they that passed by reviled him, wagging their heads…
Help me, O LORD my God: O save me according to thy mercy:
That they may know that this is thy hand; that thou, LORD, hast done it.
Psalm 17:13,14 Arise, O LORD, disappoint him, cast him down: deliver my soul from …
Psalm 64:8,9 So they shall make their own tongue to fall on themselves: all that …
Psalm 126:2 Then was our mouth filled with laughter, and our tongue with singing: …
Exodus 8:19 Then the magicians said to Pharaoh, This is the finger of God: and …
Numbers 16:28-30 And Moses said, Hereby you shall know that the LORD has sent me to …
1 Samuel 17:46,47 This day will the LORD deliver you into my hand; and I will smite …
1 Kings 18:36,37 And it came to pass at the time of the offering of the evening sacrifice, …
Job 37:7 He seals up the hand of every man; that all men may know his work.
Acts 2:32-36 This Jesus has God raised up, whereof we all are witnesses…
Acts 4:16 Saying, What shall we do to these men?…
Let them curse, but bless thou: when they arise, let them be ashamed; but let thy servant rejoice.
let them
Psalm 109:17 As he loved cursing, so let it come to him: as he delighted not in …
Numbers 22:12 And God said to Balaam, You shall not go with them; you shall not …
Numbers 23:20,23 Behold, I have received commandment to bless: and he has blessed; …
2 Samuel 16:10-13 And the king said, What have I to do with you, you sons of Zeruiah? …
but let
Isaiah 65:13-16 Therefore thus said the Lord GOD, Behold, my servants shall eat, …
John 16:22 And you now therefore have sorrow: but I will see you again, and …
Hebrews 12:2 Looking to Jesus the author and finisher of our faith; who for the …
Let mine adversaries be clothed with shame, and let them cover themselves with their own confusion, as with a mantle.
I will greatly praise the LORD with my mouth; yea, I will praise him among the multitude.
greatly
Psalm 7:17 I will praise the LORD according to his righteousness: and will sing …
Psalm 9:1 I will praise you, O LORD, with my whole heart; I will show forth …
Psalm 22:22,25 I will declare your name to my brothers: in the middle of the congregation …
Psalm 71:22,23 I will also praise you with the psaltery, even your truth, O my God: …
Psalm 108:1-3 O god, my heart is fixed; I will sing and give praise, even with my glory…
I will praise
Psalm 22:22-25 I will declare your name to my brothers: in the middle of the congregation …
Psalm 35:18 I will give you thanks in the great congregation: I will praise you …
Psalm 107:32 Let them exalt him also in the congregation of the people, and praise …
Psalm 111:1 Praise you the LORD. I will praise the LORD with my whole heart, …
Psalm 116:12-18 What shall I render to the LORD for all his benefits toward me…
Psalm 138:1,4 I will praise you with my whole heart: before the gods will I sing …
Hebrews 2:12 Saying, I will declare your name to my brothers, in the middle of …
For he shall stand at the right hand of the poor, to save him from those that condemn his soul.
for he
Psalm 16:8 I have set the LORD always before me: because he is at my right hand, …
Psalm 73:23 Nevertheless I am continually with you: you have held me by my right hand.
Psalm 110:5 The Lord at your right hand shall strike through kings in the day of his wrath.
Psalm 121:5 The LORD is your keeper: the LORD is your shade on your right hand.
poor
Psalm 109:16 Because that he remembered not to show mercy, but persecuted the …
Psalm 68:5 A father of the fatherless, and a judge of the widows, is God in …
Psalm 72:4,12,13 He shall judge the poor of the people, he shall save the children …
Psalm 140:12 I know that the LORD will maintain the cause of the afflicted, and …
to save
Psalm 10:14 You have seen it; for you behold mischief and spite, to requite it …
Exodus 22:22-24 You shall not afflict any widow, or fatherless child…
Proverbs 22:22,23 Rob not the poor, because he is poor: neither oppress the afflicted …
Ecclesiastes 5:8 If you see the oppression of the poor, and violent perverting of …
Isaiah 54:17 No weapon that is formed against you shall prosper; and every tongue …
Acts 4:10-12 Be it known to you all, and to all the people of Israel, that by …
Acts 5:30,31 The God of our fathers raised up Jesus, whom you slew and hanged on a tree…
those that condemn. Heb. the judges of
