Psalm 143:3

New Revised Standard Version Updated Edition 2021

For the enemy has pursued me, crushing my life to the ground, making me sit in darkness like those long dead.

Cross References

2 Samuel 18:11

Joab said to the man who told him, “What, you saw him! Why then did you not strike him there to the ground? I would have been glad to give you ten pieces of silver and a belt.”

2 Samuel 2:22

Abner said again to Asahel, “Turn away from following me; why should I strike you to the ground? How then could I show my face to your brother Joab?”

Psalm 142:6

Listen to my cry, for I am brought very low. Save me from my persecutors, for they are too strong for me.

Psalm 35:4

Let them be put to shame and dishonor who seek after my life. Let them be turned back and confounded who devise evil against me.

Psalm 54:3

For the insolent have risen against me; the ruthless seek my life; they do not set God before them. Selah

Psalm 7:5

then let the enemy pursue and overtake me, trample my life to the ground, and lay my soul in the dust. Selah

Psalm 7:6

Rise up, O Lord, in your anger; lift yourself up against the fury of my enemies; awake, O my God; you have appointed a judgment.

Lamentations 3:6

he has made me sit in darkness like the dead of long ago.

Ezekiel 37:11

Then he said to me, “Mortal, these bones are the whole house of Israel. They say, ‘Our bones are dried up, and our hope is lost; we are cut off completely.’

Micah 7:8

Do not rejoice over me, my enemies; when I fall, I shall rise; when I sit in darkness, the Lord will be a light to me.