Psalm 56:1

Modern English Version

Be gracious to me, O God, for man would trample on me; fighting all day long he oppresses me.

Cross References

Psalm 106:17

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

Psalm 124:3

then they would have swallowed us alive, when their anger was kindled against us;

Psalm 136:10

to Him who struck down the firstborn of Egypt, for His mercy endures forever;

Psalm 136:15

but overthrew Pharaoh and his host in the Red Sea, for His mercy endures forever;

Psalm 143:12

And in Your mercy cut off my enemies, and destroy all those who afflict my soul, for I am Your servant.

Psalm 16:1

Preserve me, O God, for in You I take refuge.

Psalm 21:9

You will make them like a fiery furnace in the time of Your anger; the Lord will swallow them up in His wrath, and the fire will consume them.

Psalm 27:2

When the wicked came against me to devour my flesh — my enemies and my foes— they stumbled and fell.

Psalm 31:9

Be gracious to me, O  Lord, for I am in distress; my eye wastes away from grief, yes, my soul and my body.

Psalm 35:25

Let them not say in their hearts, “Ah, we have our heart’s desire!” Let them not say, “We have swallowed him up.”

Psalm 58:1

Do you indeed speak righteousness, O heavenly gods? Do you judge uprightly, O earthly men?

Psalm 59:1

Deliver me from my enemies, O my God; protect me from those who rise up against me.

Psalm 59:10

My God in His lovingkindness will go before me; God will cause me to look in triumph on my enemies.

Psalm 60:1

O God, You have rejected us; You have broken our defenses; You have been displeased; oh, restore us.

Proverbs 1:12

let us swallow them up alive like Sheol, and whole, like those who go down into the pit;

Lamentations 2:16

All your enemies have opened their mouth against you; they hiss and gnash their teeth. They say, “We have swallowed her up! Certainly this is the day that we longed for; we have found it; we have seen it.”

Lamentations 2:2

The Lord has swallowed up without mercy all the habitations of Jacob; in His wrath He has thrown down the strongholds of the daughter of Judah; He has brought them down to the ground; He has profaned the kingdom and its princes.

Lamentations 2:5

The Lord has become like an enemy; He has swallowed up Israel, He has swallowed up all her palaces; He has destroyed her strongholds, and has increased mourning and lamentation in the daughter of Judah.

Hosea 8:8

Israel is swallowed up. Now they are among the nations as a vessel in which there is no pleasure.

1 Corinthians 15:54

When this corruptible will have put on incorruption, and this mortal will have put on immortality, then the saying that is written shall come to pass: “Death is swallowed up in victory.”

1 Samuel 29:4

But the princes of the Philistines became angry with him. And the princes of the Philistines said to him, “Make this man return and let him go again to his place which you have appointed him. He will not go down with us in battle, lest he might be an adversary to us in the battle. For with what could he make himself acceptable to his master, if not with the heads of these men?