Psalms 56:1

WEB

¹Be merciful to me, God, for man wants to swallow me up. All day long, he attacks and oppresses me.

KJV

¹Be merciful^[+] unto me, O God: for man would swallow me up; he fighting daily oppresseth me.

BSB

¹Be merciful to me, O God, for men are hounding me; all day they press their attack.

FBV

¹God, please be gracious to me, for people are persecuting me; my attackers fight against me all day long.

Extra References

1 Samuel 29:4

⁴But the princes of the Philistines were angry with him; and the princes of the Philistines said to him, “Make the man return, that he may go back to his place where you have appointed him, and let him not go down with us to battle, lest in the battle he become an adversary to us. For with what should this fellow reconcile himself to his lord? Should it not be with the heads of these men?

Psalms 31:9

⁹Have mercy on me, LORD, for I am in distress. My eye, my soul, and my body waste away with grief.

Psalms 69:13-16

¹³But as for me, my prayer is to you, LORD, in an acceptable time. God, in the abundance of your loving kindness, answer me in the truth of your salvation. 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. 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. ¹⁶Answer me, LORD, for your loving kindness is good. According to the multitude of your tender mercies, turn to me.

Psalms 16:1

¹Preserve me, God, for I take refuge in you.

Psalms 59:1

¹Deliver me from my enemies, my God. Set me on high from those who rise up against me.

Psalms 143:12

¹²In your loving kindness, cut off my enemies, and destroy all those who afflict my soul, for I am your servant.

Psalms 27:2

²When evildoers came at me to eat up my flesh, even my adversaries and my foes, they stumbled and fell.

Psalms 60:1

¹God, you have rejected us. You have broken us down. You have been angry. Restore us, again.

1 Samuel 21:11-15

¹¹The servants of Achish said to him, “Isn’t this David the king of the land? Didn’t they sing to one another about him in dances, saying, ‘Saul has slain his thousands, and David his ten thousands’?”

¹²David laid up these words in his heart, and was very afraid of Achish the king of Gath. ¹³He changed his behavior before them and pretended to be insane in their hands, and scribbled on the doors of the gate, and let his spittle fall down on his beard. ¹⁴Then Achish said to his servants, “Look, you see the man is insane. Why then have you brought him to me? ¹⁵Do I lack madmen, that you have brought this fellow to play the madman in my presence? Should this fellow come into my house?”

Psalms 21:9

⁹You will make them as a fiery furnace in the time of your anger. The LORD will swallow them up in his wrath. The fire shall devour them.