Psalm 56:1 - Revised Version with Apocrypha 1895

¹ Be merciful unto me, O God; for man would swallow me up: All the day long he fighting oppresseth me.

More versions

King James Version (Oxford) 1769

¹ Be merciful unto me, O God: for man would swallow me up; He fighting daily oppresseth me.

Amplified Bible - Classic Edition

¹ BE MERCIFUL and gracious to me, O God, for man would trample me or devour me; all the day long the adversary oppresses me.

American Standard Version (1901)

¹ Be merciful unto me, O God; for man would swallow me up: All the day long he fighting oppresseth me.

Common English Bible

¹ God, have mercy on me because I’m being trampled. All day long the enemy oppresses me.

Catholic Public Domain Version

¹ Unto the end. May you not destroy. Of David, with the inscription of a title, when he fled from Saul into a cave.

Douay-Rheims version of The Bible - 1752 version

¹ Unto the end, destroy not, for David, for an inscription of a title, when he fled from Saul into the cave.

Psalm 56:1 Cross References

Psalm 106:17

The earth opened and swallowed up Dathan, And covered the company of Abiram.

Psalm 124:3

Then they had swallowed us up alive, When their wrath was kindled against us:

Psalm 136:10

To him that smote Egypt in their firstborn: For his mercy endureth for ever:

Psalm 136:15

But overthrew Pharaoh and his host in the Red Sea: For his mercy endureth for ever.

Psalm 143:12

And in thy lovingkindness cut off mine enemies, And destroy all them that afflict my soul; For I am thy servant.

Psalm 16:1

Preserve me, O God: for in thee do I put my trust.

Psalm 21:9

Thou shalt make them as a fiery furnace in the time of thine anger. The LORD shall swallow them up in his wrath, And the fire shall devour them.

Psalm 27:2

When evil-doers came upon me to eat up my flesh, Even mine adversaries and my foes, they stumbled and fell.

Psalm 31:9

Have mercy upon me, O LORD, for I am in distress: Mine eye wasteth away with grief, yea, my soul and my body.

Psalm 35:25

Let them not say in their heart, Aha, so would we have it: Let them not say, We have swallowed him up.

Psalm 58:1

Do ye indeed in silence speak righteousness? Do ye judge uprightly, O ye sons of men?

Psalm 59:1

Deliver me from mine enemies, O my God: Set me on high from them that rise up against me.

Psalm 59:10

The God of my mercy shall prevent me: God shall let me see my desire upon mine enemies.

Psalm 60:1

O God, thou hast cast us off, thou hast broken us down; Thou hast been angry; O restore us again.

Proverbs 1:12

Let us swallow them up alive as Sheol, And whole, as those that go down into the pit;

Lamentations 2:16

All thine enemies have opened their mouth wide against thee; they hiss and gnash the teeth; they say, We have swallowed her up; certainly this is the day that we looked for; we have found, we have seen it.

Lamentations 2:2

The Lord hath swallowed up all the habitations of Jacob, and hath not pitied; he hath thrown down in his wrath the strong holds of the daughter of Judah; he hath brought them down to the ground: he hath profaned the kingdom and the princes thereof.

Lamentations 2:5

The Lord is become as an enemy, he hath swallowed up Israel; he hath swallowed up all her palaces, he hath destroyed his strong holds: and he hath multiplied in the daughter of Judah mourning and lamentation.

Hosea 8:8

Israel is swallowed up: now are they among the nations as a vessel wherein is no pleasure.

1 Corinthians 15:54

But when this corruptible shall have put on incorruption, and this mortal shall have put on immortality, then shall come to pass the saying that is written, Death is swallowed up in victory.

1 Samuel 29:4

But the princes of the Philistines were wroth with him; and the princes of the Philistines said unto him, Make the man return, that he may go back to his place where thou hast appointed him, and let him not go down with us to battle, lest in the battle he become an adversary to us: for wherewith should this fellow reconcile himself unto his lord? should it not be with the heads of these men?