Psalm 55:3

Amplified Bible - Classic Edition

[And I am distracted] at the noise of the enemy, because of the oppression and threats of the wicked; for they would cast trouble upon me, and in wrath they persecute me.

Cross References

2 Samuel 15:3

Absalom would say to him, Your claims are good and right, but there is no man appointed as the king's agent to hear you.

2 Samuel 19:19

And said to the king, Let not my lord impute iniquity to me and hold me guilty, nor remember what your servant did the day my lord went out of Jerusalem [when Shimei grossly insulted David]; may the king not take it to heart.

Psalm 12:5

Now will I arise, says the Lord, because the poor are oppressed, because of the groans of the needy; I will set him in safety and in the salvation for which he pants.

Psalm 17:9

From the wicked who despoil and oppress me, my deadly adversaries who surround me.

Psalm 27:12

Give me not up to the will of my adversaries, for false witnesses have risen up against me; they breathe out cruelty and violence.

Psalm 35:11

Malicious and unrighteous witnesses rise up; they ask me of things that I know not.

Psalm 54:3

For strangers and insolent men are rising up against me, and violent men and ruthless ones seek and demand my life; they do not set God before them. Selah [pause, and calmly think of that]!

Psalm 71:11

Saying, God has forsaken him; pursue and persecute and take him, for there is none to deliver him.

Psalm 73:8

They scoff, and wickedly utter oppression; they speak loftily [from on high, maliciously and blasphemously].

Matthew 26:59

Now the chief priests and the whole council (the Sanhedrin) sought to get false witnesses to testify against Jesus, so that they might put Him to death;