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Psalms 7:5
Psalms 7:5 is verse 5 of Psalms chapter 7, shown here in the Berean Standard Bible.
Berean Standard Bible
then may my enemy pursue me and overtake me; may he trample me to the ground and leave my honor in the dust. Selah
King James Version
Let the enemy persecute my soul, and take it; yea, let him tread down my life upon the earth, and lay mine honour in the dust. Selah.
World English Bible
let the enemy pursue my soul, and overtake it; yes, let him tread my life down to the earth, and lay my glory in the dust. Selah.
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Psalms 7:3–7 · Berean Standard Bible
3 O LORD my God, if I have done this, if injustice is on my hands,
4 if I have rewarded my ally with evil, if I have plundered my foe without cause,
5 then may my enemy pursue me and overtake me; may he trample me to the ground and leave my honor in the dust. Selah
6 Arise, O LORD, in Your anger; rise up against the fury of my enemies. Awake, my God, and ordain judgment.
7 Let the assembled peoples gather around You; take Your seat over them on high.
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Cross-references
The Treasury of Scripture Knowledge lists these related verses. Scripture text comes from the Berean Standard Bible.
Job 31:5If I have walked in falsehood or my foot has rushed to deceit,
Job 31:6let God weigh me with honest scales, that He may know my integrity.
Job 31:7If my steps have turned from the path, if my heart has followed my eyes, or if impurity has stuck to my hands,
Job 31:8then may another eat what I have sown, and may my crops be uprooted.
Job 31:9If my heart has been enticed by my neighbor’s wife, or I have lurked at his door,
Job 31:10then may my own wife grind grain for another, and may other men sleep with her.
Job 31:38if my land cries out against me and its furrows weep together,
Job 31:39if I have devoured its produce without payment or broken the spirit of its tenants,
Job 31:40then let briers grow instead of wheat and stinkweed instead of barley.” Thus conclude the words of Job.
Psalms 44:5Through You we repel our foes; through Your name we trample our enemies.
Psalms 60:12With God we will perform with valor, and He will trample our enemies.
Job 40:12Look on every proud man and humble him; trample the wicked where they stand.
Isaiah 10:6I will send him against a godless nation; I will dispatch him against a people destined for My rage, to take spoils and seize plunder, and to trample them down like clay in the streets.
Isaiah 63:3“I have trodden the winepress alone, and no one from the nations was with Me. I trampled them in My anger and trod them down in My fury; their blood spattered My garments, and all My clothes were stained.
Zechariah 10:5They will be like mighty men in battle, trampling the enemy in the mire of the streets. They will fight because the LORD is with them, and they will put the horsemen to shame.
Malachi 4:3Then you will trample the wicked, for they will be ashes under the soles of your feet on the day I am preparing,” says the LORD of Hosts.
Psalms 49:12But a man, despite his wealth, cannot endure; he is like the beasts that perish.
Job 16:15I have sewn sackcloth over my skin; I have buried my horn in the dust.
Job 40:13Bury them together in the dust; imprison them in the grave.
Jeremiah 17:13O LORD, the hope of Israel, all who abandon You will be put to shame. All who turn away will be written in the dust, for they have abandoned the LORD, the fountain of living water.
Psalms 3:2Many say of me, “God will not deliver him.” Selah
Habakkuk 3:13You went forth for the salvation of Your people, to save Your anointed. You crushed the head of the house of the wicked and stripped him from head to toe. Selah