Psalm 56:1

New Revised Standard Version Updated Edition 2021

Be gracious to me, O God, for people trample on me; all day long foes oppress me;

Cross References

Psalm 106:17

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

Psalm 124:3

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

Psalm 136:10

who struck Egypt through their firstborn, for his steadfast love endures forever;

Psalm 136:15

but overthrew Pharaoh and his army in the Red Sea, for his steadfast love endures forever;

Psalm 143:12

In your steadfast love cut off my enemies, and destroy all my adversaries, for I am your servant.

Psalm 16:1

Protect me, O God, for in you I take refuge.

Psalm 21:9

You will make them like a fiery furnace when you appear. The Lord will swallow them up in his wrath, and fire will consume them.

Psalm 27:2

When evildoers assail me to devour my flesh— my adversaries and foes— they shall stumble and fall.

Psalm 31:9

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

Psalm 35:25

Do not let them say to themselves, “Aha, we have our heart’s desire.” Do not let them say, “We have swallowed you up.”

Psalm 58:1

Do you indeed decree what is right, you gods? Do you judge people fairly?

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 steadfast love will meet me; my God will let me look in triumph on my enemies.

Psalm 60:1

O God, you have rejected us, broken our defenses; you have been angry; now restore us!

Proverbs 1:12

like Sheol let us swallow them alive and whole, like those who go down to the Pit.

Lamentations 2:16

All your enemies open their mouths against you; they hiss, they gnash their teeth, they cry: “We have devoured her! Ah, this is the day we longed for; at last we have seen it!”

Lamentations 2:2

The Lord has destroyed without mercy all the dwellings of Jacob; in his wrath he has broken down the strongholds of daughter Judah; he has brought down to the ground in dishonor the kingdom and its rulers.

Lamentations 2:5

The Lord has become like an enemy; he has destroyed Israel. He has destroyed all its palaces, laid in ruins its strongholds, and multiplied in daughter Judah mourning and lamentation.

Hosea 8:8

Israel is swallowed up; now they are among the nations as a useless vessel.

1 Corinthians 15:54

When this perishable body puts on imperishability and this mortal body puts on immortality, then the saying that is written will be fulfilled: “Death has been swallowed up in victory.”

1 Samuel 29:4

But the commanders of the Philistines were angry with him, and the commanders of the Philistines said to him, “Send the man back, so that he may return to the place that you have assigned to him; he shall not go down with us to battle, or else he may become an adversary to us in the battle. For how could this fellow reconcile himself to his lord? Would it not be with the heads of the men here?