Persecution

Nave's Topical Bible

Topic from Nave's Topical Bible (Orville J. Nave, 1897) — public domain.

• Job 2:5 OT

  But stretch out your hand now, and touch his bone and his flesh, and he will renounce you to your face.”

• Job 12:4 OT

  I am like one who is a joke to his neighbor, I, who called on God, and he answered. The just, the blameless man is a joke.

• Job 12:5 OT

  In the thought of him who is at ease there is contempt for misfortune. It is ready for them whose foot slips.

• Psalms 11:2 OT

  For, behold, the wicked bend their bows. They set their arrows on the strings, that they may shoot in darkness at the upright in heart.

• Psalms 37:32 OT

  The wicked watch the righteous, and seek to kill him.

• Psalms 38:20 OT

  They who render evil for good are also adversaries to me, because I follow what is good.

• Psalms 42:3 OT

  My tears have been my food day and night, while they continually ask me, “Where is your God?”

• Psalms 42:10 OT

  As with a sword in my bones, my adversaries reproach me, while they continually ask me, “Where is your God?”

• Psalms 44:15-18 OT

  All day long my dishonor is before me, and shame covers my face, at the taunt of one who reproaches and verbally abuses, because of the enemy and the avenger. All this has come on us, yet we haven’t forgotten you. We haven’t been false to…

• Psalms 44:22 OT

  Yes, for your sake we are killed all day long. We are regarded as sheep for the slaughter.

• Psalms 56:5 OT

  All day long they twist my words. All their thoughts are against me for evil.

• Psalms 69:10 OT

  When I wept and I fasted, that was to my reproach.

• Psalms 69:12 OT

  Those who sit in the gate talk about me. I am the song of the drunkards.

• Psalms 74:7 OT

  They have burned your sanctuary to the ground. They have profaned the dwelling place of your Name.

• Psalms 74:8 OT

  They said in their heart, “We will crush them completely.” They have burned up all the places in the land where God was worshiped.

• Psalms 94:5 OT

  They break your people in pieces, Yahweh, and afflict your heritage.

• Psalms 119:51 OT

  The arrogant mock me excessively, but I don’t swerve from your law.

• Psalms 119:61 OT

  The ropes of the wicked bind me, but I won’t forget your law.

• Psalms 119:69 OT

  The proud have smeared a lie upon me. With my whole heart, I will keep your precepts.

• Psalms 119:78 OT

  Let the proud be disappointed, for they have overthrown me wrongfully. I will meditate on your precepts.

• Psalms 119:85-87 OT

  The proud have dug pits for me, contrary to your law. All of your commandments are faithful. They persecute me wrongfully. Help me! They had almost wiped me from the earth, but I didn’t forsake your precepts.

• Psalms 119:95 OT

  The wicked have waited for me, to destroy me. I will consider your statutes.

• Psalms 119:110 OT

  The wicked have laid a snare for me, yet I haven’t gone astray from your precepts.

• Psalms 119:157 OT

  Many are my persecutors and my adversaries. I haven’t swerved from your testimonies.