Psalm 56:1 - The Scriptures 1998

¹ Show me favour, O Elohim, For man would swallow me up; Fighting all day long, he oppresses me.

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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.

Psalm 56:1 Cross References

Psalm 106:17

Then the earth opened up and swallowed Dathan, And covered the company of Aḇ

Psalm 124:3

“Then they would have swallowed us alive, In their burning rage against us;

Psalm 136:10

To Him who smote Mitsrayim in their first-born, For His kindness is everlasting;

Psalm 136:15

But shook off Pharaoh and his army in the Sea of Reeds, For His kindness is everlasting;

Psalm 143:12

And in Your kindness, Cut off my enemies. And destroy all the adversaries of my life, For I am Your servant!

Psalm 16:1

Guard me, O Ě

Psalm 21:9

You make them as a furnace of fire in the time of Your presence; יהוה  does swallow them up in His wrath, And fire does consume them.

Psalm 27:2

When evil-doers come against me To eat up my flesh, My adversaries and my enemies, They shall stumble and fall.

Psalm 31:9

Show me favour, O יהוה, for I am in distress; My eye, my being and my body have become old with grief!

Psalm 35:25

Let them not say in their hearts, “Aha, our desire!” Let them not say, “We have swallowed him up.”

Psalm 58:1

Would you indeed speak righteousness, in silence? Do you judge straightly, you sons of men?

Psalm 59:1

Deliver me from my enemies, O my Elohim; Set me on high from those who rise up against me.

Psalm 59:10

Elohim does go before me, He lets me look upon my enemies.

Psalm 60:1

O Elohim, You have rejected us; You have broken us; You have been displeased; Turn back to us!

Proverbs 1:12

“Let us swallow them alive like the grave, And entirely, like those going down to the pit.

Lamentations 2:16

All your enemies have opened Their mouth against you; They have whistled and they gnash their teeth. They say, “We have swallowed her up! This is certainly the day we waited for; We have found it, we have seen it.”

Lamentations 2:2

יהוה  has swallowed up, without compassion, All the pastures of Yaʽ

Lamentations 2:5

יהוה  has been like an enemy. He has swallowed up Yisra’ĕ

Hosea 8:8

“Yisra’ĕ

1 Corinthians 15:54

And when this corruptible has put on incorruption, and this mortal has put on immortality, then shall come to be the word that has been written, “Death is swallowed up in overcoming.”

1 Samuel 29:4

But the princes of the Philistines were wroth with him, and the princes of the Philistines said to him, “Send the man back, let him return to the place which you have appointed for him, and do not let him go down with us to battle, lest in the battle he become our adversary. For with what could he appease his master, if not with the heads of these men?