Psalms 63:9

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Psalms 63:7–11 · Berean Standard Bible

7 For You are my help; I will sing for joy in the shadow of Your wings.

8 My soul clings to You; Your right hand upholds me.

9 But those who seek my life to destroy it will go into the depths of the earth.

10 They will fall to the power of the sword; they will become a portion for foxes.

11 But the king will rejoice in God; all who swear by Him will exult, for the mouths of liars will be shut.

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The Treasury of Scripture Knowledge lists these related verses. Scripture text comes from the Berean Standard Bible.

Psalms 35:4

May those who seek my life be disgraced and put to shame; may those who plan to harm me be driven back and confounded.

Psalms 35:26

May those who gloat in my distress be ashamed and confounded; may those who exalt themselves over me be clothed in shame and reproach.

Psalms 38:12

Those who seek my life lay snares; those who wish me harm speak destruction, plotting deceit all day long.

Psalms 40:14

May those who seek my life be ashamed and confounded; may those who wish me harm be repelled and humiliated.

Psalms 70:2

May those who seek my life be ashamed and confounded; may those who wish me harm be repelled and humiliated.

1 Samuel 25:29

And should someone pursue you and seek your life, then the life of my lord will be bound securely by the LORD your God in the bundle of the living. But He shall fling away the lives of your enemies like stones from a sling.

Psalms 9:17

The wicked will return to Sheol— all the nations who forget God.

Psalms 55:15

Let death seize them by surprise; let them go down to Sheol alive, for evil is with them in their homes.

Psalms 55:23

But You, O God, will bring them down to the Pit of destruction; men of bloodshed and deceit will not live out half their days. But I will trust in You.

Psalms 86:13

For great is Your loving devotion to me; You have delivered me from the depths of Sheol.

Numbers 16:30

But if the LORD brings about something unprecedented, and the earth opens its mouth and swallows them and all that belongs to them so that they go down alive into Sheol, then you will know that these men have treated the LORD with contempt.”

Numbers 16:31

As soon as Moses had finished saying all this, the ground beneath them split open,

Numbers 16:32

and the earth opened its mouth and swallowed them and their households—all Korah’s men and all their possessions.

Numbers 16:33

They went down alive into Sheol with all they owned. The earth closed over them, and they vanished from the assembly.

1 Samuel 28:19

Moreover, the LORD will deliver Israel with you into the hand of the Philistines, and tomorrow you and your sons will be with me. And the LORD will deliver the army of Israel into the hand of the Philistines.”

Job 40:13

Bury them together in the dust; imprison them in the grave.

Isaiah 14:9

Sheol beneath is eager to meet you upon your arrival. It stirs the spirits of the dead to greet you— all the rulers of the earth. It makes all the kings of the nations rise from their thrones.

Isaiah 14:15

But you will be brought down to Sheol, to the lowest depths of the Pit.

Isaiah 14:19

But you are cast out of your grave like a rejected branch, covered by those slain with the sword, and dumped into a rocky pit like a carcass trampled underfoot.

Ezekiel 32:18

“Son of man, wail for the multitudes of Egypt, and consign her and the daughters of the mighty nations to the depths of the earth with those who descend to the Pit:

Ezekiel 32:19

Whom do you surpass in beauty? Go down and be placed with the uncircumcised!

Ezekiel 32:20

They will fall among those slain by the sword. The sword is appointed! Let them drag her away along with all her multitudes.

Ezekiel 32:21

Mighty chiefs will speak from the midst of Sheol about Egypt and her allies: ‘They have come down and lie with the uncircumcised, with those slain by the sword.’

Ezekiel 32:22

Assyria is there with her whole company; her graves are all around her. All of them are slain, fallen by the sword.

Ezekiel 32:23

Her graves are set in the depths of the Pit, and her company is all around her grave. All of them are slain, fallen by the sword— those who once spread terror in the land of the living.

Ezekiel 32:24

Elam is there with all her multitudes around her grave. All of them are slain, fallen by the sword— those who went down uncircumcised to the earth below, who once spread their terror in the land of the living. They bear their disgrace with those who descend to the Pit.

Ezekiel 32:25

Among the slain they prepare a resting place for Elam with all her hordes, with her graves all around her. All of them are uncircumcised, slain by the sword, although their terror was once spread in the land of the living. They bear their disgrace with those who descend to the Pit. They are placed among the slain.

Ezekiel 32:26

Meshech and Tubal are there with all their multitudes, with their graves all around them. All of them are uncircumcised, slain by the sword, because they spread their terror in the land of the living.

Ezekiel 32:27

They do not lie down with the fallen warriors of old, who went down to Sheol with their weapons of war, whose swords were placed under their heads, whose shields rested on their bones, although the terror of the mighty was once in the land of the living.

Ezekiel 32:28

But you too will be shattered and lie down among the uncircumcised, with those slain by the sword.

Ezekiel 32:29

Edom is there, and all her kings and princes, who despite their might are laid among those slain by the sword. They lie down with the uncircumcised, with those who descend to the Pit.

Ezekiel 32:30

All the leaders of the north and all the Sidonians are there; they went down in disgrace with the slain, despite the terror of their might. They lie uncircumcised with those slain by the sword and bear their shame with those who descend to the Pit.

Ezekiel 32:31

Pharaoh will see them and be comforted over all his multitude— Pharaoh and all his army, slain by the sword, declares the Lord GOD.

Ezekiel 32:32

For I will spread My terror in the land of the living, so that Pharaoh and all his multitude will be laid to rest among the uncircumcised, with those slain by the sword, declares the Lord GOD.”

Acts 1:25

to take up this ministry and apostleship, which Judas abandoned to go to his rightful place.”