Psalms 143:3 Cross References - ASV

³ For the enemy hath persecuted my soul;
He hath smitten my life down to the ground:
He hath made me to dwell in dark places, as those that have been long dead.

²² And Abner said again to Asahel, Turn thee aside from following me: wherefore should I smite thee to the ground? how then should I hold up my face to Joab thy brother?

¹¹ And Joab said unto the man that told him, And, behold, thou sawest it, and why didst thou not smite him there to the ground? and I would have given thee ten [pieces of] silver, and a girdle.

¹ Shiggaion of David, which he sang unto Jehovah, concerning the words of Cush a Benjamite.

O Jehovah my God, in thee do I take refuge:
Save me from all them that pursue me, and deliver me, ² Lest they tear my soul like a lion,
Rending it in pieces, while there is none to deliver.

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

⁹ From the wicked that oppress me,
My deadly enemies, that compass me about. ¹⁰ They are inclosed in their own fat:
With their mouth they speak proudly. ¹¹ They have now compassed us in our steps;
They set their eyes to cast [us] down to the earth. ¹² He is like a lion that is greedy of his prey,
And as it were a young lion lurking in secret places. ¹³ Arise, O Jehovah,
Confront him, cast him down:
Deliver my soul from the wicked by thy sword;

¹² I am forgotten as a dead man out of mind:
I am like a broken vessel. ¹³ For I have heard the defaming of many,
Terror on every side:
While they took counsel together against me
They devised to take away my life.

⁴ Let them be put to shame and brought to dishonor that seek after my soul:
Let them be turned back and confounded that devise my hurt.

³ For strangers are risen up against me,
And violent men have sought after my soul:
They have not set God before them. [Selah

⁴ I am reckoned with them that go down into the pit;
I am as a man that hath no help, ⁵ Cast off among the dead,
Like the slain that lie in the grave,
Whom thou rememberest no more,
And they are cut off from thy hand. ⁶ Thou hast laid me in the lowest pit,
In dark places, in the deeps.

⁶ Attend unto my cry;
For I am brought very low:
Deliver me from my persecutors;
For they are stronger than I.

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

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