Psalms 143:3 Cross References - NHEB

³ For the enemy pursues my soul. He has struck my life down to the ground. He has made me live in dark places, as those who have been long dead.

²² Abner said again to Asahel, "Stop pursuing me. Why should I strike you to the ground? How then should I hold up my face to Joab your brother?"

¹¹ Joab said to the man who told him, "Look, you saw it, and why did you not strike him there to the ground? I would have given you ten pieces of silver, and a belt."

¹ [A meditation by David, which he sang to the LORD, concerning the words of Cush, the Benjamite.] LORD, my God, I take refuge in you. Save me from all those who pursue me, and deliver me, ² lest they tear apart my soul like a lion, ripping it in pieces, while there is none to deliver.

⁵ let the enemy pursue my soul, and overtake it; yes, let him tread my life down to the earth, and lay my glory in the dust. Selah.

⁹ from the wicked who oppress me, my deadly enemies, who surround me. ¹⁰ They close up their callous hearts. With their mouth they speak proudly. ¹¹ They have tracked me down; suddenly they surround me. They watch closely, crouching down to the ground. ¹² He is like a lion that is greedy of his prey, as it were a young lion lurking in secret places. ¹³ Arise, LORD, confront him. Cast him down. Deliver my soul from the wicked by your sword;

¹² I am forgotten from their hearts like a dead man. I am like broken pottery. ¹³ For I have heard the slander of many, terror on every side, while they conspire together against me, they plot to take away my life.

⁴ Let those who seek after my soul be disappointed and brought to dishonor. Let those who plot my ruin be turned back and confounded.

³ For strangers have risen up against me. Violent men have sought after my soul. They haven't set God before them. Selah.

⁴ I am counted among those who go down into the pit. I am like a man who has no help, ⁵ set apart among the dead, like the slain who lie in the grave, whom you remember no more. They are cut off from your hand. ⁶ You have laid me in the lowest pit, in the darkest depths.

⁶ Listen to my cry, for I am in desperate need. Deliver me from my persecutors, for they are stronger than me.

⁶ He has made me to dwell in dark places, like those that have been long dead.

¹¹ Then he said to me, "Son of man, these bones are the whole house of Israel: look, they say, 'Our bones are dried up, and our hope is lost; we are completely cut off.'