TOPICAL BIBLE
Afflictions And Adversities
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Psalm 59:4I have done no wrong, yet they are ready to attack me. Rise up, behold, and help me!Psalm 59:5You, Yahweh God of Armies, the God of Israel, rouse yourself to punish the nations. Show no mercy to the wicked traitors. Selah.Psalm 59:6They return at evening, howling like dogs, and prowl around the city.Psalm 59:7Behold, they spew with their mouth. Swords are in their lips, “For,” they say, “who hears us?”Psalm 59:8But you, Yahweh, laugh at them. You scoff at all the nations.Psalm 59:9Oh, my Strength, I watch for you, for God is my high tower.Psalm 59:10My God will go before me with his loving kindness. God will let me look at my enemies in triumph.Psalm 59:11Don’t kill them, or my people may forget. Scatter them by your power, and bring them down, Lord our shield.Psalm 59:12For the sin of their mouth, and the words of their lips, let them be caught in their pride, for the curses and lies which they utter.Psalm 59:13Consume them in wrath. Consume them, and they will be no more. Let them know that God rules in Jacob, to the ends of the earth. Selah.Psalm 59:14At evening let them return. Let them howl like a dog, and go around the city.Psalm 59:15They shall wander up and down for food, and wait all night if they aren’t satisfied.Psalm 59:16But I will sing of your strength. Yes, I will sing aloud of your loving kindness in the morning. For you have been my high tower, a refuge in the day of my distress.Psalm 59:17To you, my strength, I will sing praises. For God is my high tower, the God of my mercy.Psalm 60:1For the Chief Musician. To the tune of “The Lily of the Covenant.” A teaching poem by David, when he fought with Aram Naharaim and with Aram Zobah, and Joab returned, and killed twelve thousand of Edom in the Valley of Salt. God, you have rejected us. You have broken us down. You have been angry. Restore us, again.Psalm 60:2You have made the land tremble. You have torn it. Mend its fractures, for it quakes.Psalm 60:3You have shown your people hard things. You have made us drink the wine that makes us stagger.Psalm 60:11Give us help against the adversary, for the help of man is vain.Psalm 61:1For the Chief Musician. For a stringed instrument. By David. Hear my cry, God. Listen to my prayer.Psalm 61:2From the end of the earth, I will call to you, when my heart is overwhelmed. Lead me to the rock that is higher than I.Psalm 62:1For the Chief Musician. To Jeduthan. A Psalm by David. My soul rests in God alone. My salvation is from him.Psalm 62:2He alone is my rock and my salvation, my fortress—I will never be greatly shaken.Psalm 62:5My soul, wait in silence for God alone, for my expectation is from him.Psalm 62:6He alone is my rock and my salvation, my fortress. I will not be shaken.Psalm 62:7With God is my salvation and my honor. The rock of my strength, and my refuge, is in God.Psalm 62:8Trust in him at all times, you people. Pour out your heart before him. God is a refuge for us. Selah.Psalm 62:11God has spoken once; twice I have heard this, that power belongs to God.Psalm 62:12Also to you, Lord, belongs loving kindness, for you reward every man according to his work.Psalm 64:1For the Chief Musician. A Psalm by David. Hear my voice, God, in my complaint. Preserve my life from fear of the enemy.Psalm 64:2Hide me from the conspiracy of the wicked, from the noisy crowd of the ones doing evil;Psalm 64:7But God will shoot at them. They will be suddenly struck down with an arrow.Psalm 64:8Their own tongues shall ruin them. All who see them will shake their heads.Psalm 64:9All mankind shall be afraid. They shall declare the work of God, and shall wisely ponder what he has done.Psalm 66:10For you, God, have tested us. You have refined us, as silver is refined.Psalm 66:11You brought us into prison. You laid a burden on our backs.Psalm 66:12You allowed men to ride over our heads. We went through fire and through water, but you brought us to the place of abundance.Psalm 68:6God sets the lonely in families. He brings out the prisoners with singing, but the rebellious dwell in a sun-scorched land.Psalm 69:1For the Chief Musician. To the tune of “Lilies.” By David. Save me, God, for the waters have come up to my neck!Psalm 69:2I sink in deep mire, where there is no foothold. I have come into deep waters, where the floods overflow me.Psalm 69:3I am weary with my crying. My throat is dry. My eyes fail, looking for my God.Psalm 69:4Those who hate me without a cause are more than the hairs of my head. Those who want to cut me off, being my enemies wrongfully, are mighty. I have to restore what I didn’t take away.Psalm 69:5God, you know my foolishness. My sins aren’t hidden from you.Psalm 69:6Don’t let those who wait for you be shamed through me, Lord Yahweh of Armies. Don’t let those who seek you be brought to dishonor through me, God of Israel.Psalm 69:7Because for your sake, I have borne reproach. Shame has covered my face.Psalm 69:8I have become a stranger to my brothers, an alien to my mother’s children.Psalm 69:9For the zeal of your house consumes me. The reproaches of those who reproach you have fallen on me.Psalm 69:10When I wept and I fasted, that was to my reproach.Psalm 69:11When I made sackcloth my clothing, I became a byword to them.Psalm 69:12Those who sit in the gate talk about me. I am the song of the drunkards.Psalm 69:13But as for me, my prayer is to you, Yahweh, in an acceptable time. God, in the abundance of your loving kindness, answer me in the truth of your salvation.Psalm 69:14Deliver me out of the mire, and don’t let me sink. Let me be delivered from those who hate me, and out of the deep waters.Psalm 69:15Don’t let the flood waters overwhelm me, neither let the deep swallow me up. Don’t let the pit shut its mouth on me.Psalm 69:16Answer me, Yahweh, for your loving kindness is good. According to the multitude of your tender mercies, turn to me.Psalm 69:17Don’t hide your face from your servant, for I am in distress. Answer me speedily!Psalm 69:18Draw near to my soul, and redeem it. Ransom me because of my enemies.Psalm 69:19You know my reproach, my shame, and my dishonor. My adversaries are all before you.Psalm 69:20Reproach has broken my heart, and I am full of heaviness. I looked for some to take pity, but there was none; for comforters, but I found none.Psalm 69:21They also gave me gall for my food. In my thirst, they gave me vinegar to drink.Psalm 69:22Let their table before them become a snare. May it become a retribution and a trap.Psalm 69:23Let their eyes be darkened, so that they can’t see. Let their backs be continually bent.