TOPICAL BIBLE
Persecution
543 references in this topic.
Psalm 11:2For, lo, the wicked bend [their] bow, they make ready their arrow upon the string, that they may privily shoot at the upright in heart.Psalm 22:1To the chief Musician upon Aijeleth Shahar, A Psalm of David. My God, my God, why hast thou forsaken me? [why art thou so] far from helping me, [and from] the words of my roaring?Psalm 22:2O my God, I cry in the daytime, but thou hearest not; and in the night season, and am not silent.Psalm 22:6But I [am] a worm, and no man; a reproach of men, and despised of the people.Psalm 22:7All they that see me laugh me to scorn: they shoot out the lip, they shake the head, [saying],Psalm 22:8He trusted on the LORD [that] he would deliver him: let him deliver him, seeing he delighted in him.Psalm 22:11Be not far from me; for trouble [is] near; for [there is] none to help.Psalm 22:12Many bulls have compassed me: strong [bulls] of Bashan have beset me round.Psalm 22:13They gaped upon me [with] their mouths, [as] a ravening and a roaring lion.Psalm 22:14I am poured out like water, and all my bones are out of joint: my heart is like wax; it is melted in the midst of my bowels.Psalm 22:15My strength is dried up like a potsherd; and my tongue cleaveth to my jaws; and thou hast brought me into the dust of death.Psalm 22:16For dogs have compassed me: the assembly of the wicked have inclosed me: they pierced my hands and my feet.Psalm 22:17I may tell all my bones: they look [and] stare upon me.Psalm 22:18They part my garments among them, and cast lots upon my vesture.Psalm 22:19But be not thou far from me, O LORD: O my strength, haste thee to help me.Psalm 22:20Deliver my soul from the sword; my darling from the power of the dog.Psalm 22:21Save me from the lion’s mouth: for thou hast heard me from the horns of the unicorns.Psalm 31:13For I have heard the slander of many: fear [was] on every side: while they took counsel together against me, they devised to take away my life.Psalm 37:32The wicked watcheth the righteous, and seeketh to slay him.Psalm 38:20They also that render evil for good are mine adversaries; because I follow [the thing that] good [is].Psalm 42:3My tears have been my meat day and night, while they continually say unto me, Where [is] thy God?Psalm 42:10[As] with a sword in my bones, mine enemies reproach me; while they say daily unto me, Where [is] thy God?Psalm 44:15My confusion [is] continually before me, and the shame of my face hath covered me,Psalm 44:16For the voice of him that reproacheth and blasphemeth; by reason of the enemy and avenger.Psalm 44:17All this is come upon us; yet have we not forgotten thee, neither have we dealt falsely in thy covenant.Psalm 44:18Our heart is not turned back, neither have our steps declined from thy way;Psalm 44:22Yea, for thy sake are we killed all the day long; we are counted as sheep for the slaughter.Psalm 56:5Every day they wrest my words: all their thoughts [are] against me for evil.Psalm 59:1To the chief Musician, Altaschith, Michtam of David; when Saul sent, and they watched the house to kill him. Deliver me from mine enemies, O my God: defend me from them that rise up against me.Psalm 59:2Deliver me from the workers of iniquity, and save me from bloody men.Psalm 69:1To the chief Musician upon Shoshannim, [A Psalm] of David. Save me, O God; for the waters are come in unto [my] soul.Psalm 69:2I sink in deep mire, where [there is] no standing: I am come into deep waters, where the floods overflow me.Psalm 69:3I am weary of my crying: my throat is dried: mine eyes fail while I wait for my God.Psalm 69:4They that hate me without a cause are more than the hairs of mine head: they that would destroy me, [being] mine enemies wrongfully, are mighty: then I restored [that] which I took not away.Psalm 69:5O God, thou knowest my foolishness; and my sins are not hid from thee.Psalm 69:6Let not them that wait on thee, O Lord GOD of hosts, be ashamed for my sake: let not those that seek thee be confounded for my sake, O God of Israel.Psalm 69:7Because for thy sake I have borne reproach; shame hath covered my face.Psalm 69:8I am become a stranger unto my brethren, and an alien unto my mother’s children.Psalm 69:9For the zeal of thine house hath eaten me up; and the reproaches of them that reproached thee are fallen upon me.Psalm 69:10When I wept, [and chastened] my soul with fasting, that was to my reproach.Psalm 69:11I made sackcloth also my garment; and I became a proverb to them.Psalm 69:12They that sit in the gate speak against me; and I [was] the song of the drunkards.Psalm 69:13But as for me, my prayer [is] unto thee, O LORD, [in] an acceptable time: O God, in the multitude of thy mercy hear me, in the truth of thy salvation.Psalm 69:14Deliver me out of the mire, and let me not sink: let me be delivered from them that hate me, and out of the deep waters.Psalm 69:15Let not the waterflood overflow me, neither let the deep swallow me up, and let not the pit shut her mouth upon me.Psalm 69:16Hear me, O LORD; for thy lovingkindness [is] good: turn unto me according to the multitude of thy tender mercies.Psalm 69:17And hide not thy face from thy servant; for I am in trouble: hear me speedily.Psalm 69:18Draw nigh unto my soul, [and] redeem it: deliver me because of mine enemies.Psalm 69:19Thou hast known my reproach, and my shame, and my dishonour: mine adversaries [are] all before thee.Psalm 69:20Reproach hath broken my heart; and I am full of heaviness: and I looked [for some] to take pity, but [there was] none; and for comforters, but I found none.Psalm 69:21They gave me also gall for my meat; and in my thirst they gave me vinegar to drink.Psalm 74:7They have cast fire into thy sanctuary, they have defiled [by casting down] the dwelling place of thy name to the ground.Psalm 74:8They said in their hearts, Let us destroy them together: they have burned up all the synagogues of God in the land.Psalm 94:5They break in pieces thy people, O LORD, and afflict thine heritage.Psalm 109:25I became also a reproach unto them: [when] they looked upon me they shaked their heads.Psalm 119:51The proud have had me greatly in derision: [yet] have I not declined from thy law.Psalm 119:61The bands of the wicked have robbed me: [but] I have not forgotten thy law.Psalm 119:69The proud have forged a lie against me: [but] I will keep thy precepts with [my] whole heart.Psalm 119:78Let the proud be ashamed; for they dealt perversely with me without a cause: [but] I will meditate in thy precepts.Psalm 119:85The proud have digged pits for me, which [are] not after thy law.