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Psalms 7:5

if I have repaid those who rendered evils to me, may I deservedly fall away empty before my enemies:

Catholic Public Domain Version

In The 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.

In Context

4O Lord, my God, if there is iniquity in my hands, if I have done this:

6let the enemy pursue my soul, and take hold of it, and trample my life into the earth, and drag down my glory into the dust. Pause

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Cross References

1 Samuel 24:11Behold, this day your eyes have seen that the Lord has delivered you into my hand, in the cave. And I thought that I might kill you. But my eye has spared you. For I said: I will not extend my hand against my lord, for he is the Christ of the Lord.

1 Samuel 24:20For who, when he will have found his enemy, will release him along a good path? So may the Lord repay you for this good turn, because you have acted on my behalf this day.

Job 31:5If I have walked in vanity, or if my foot has hurried towards deceitfulness,

Job 40:12He draws up his tail like a cedar; the sinews of his thighs have been drawn together.

Psalms 44:5With your splendor and your excellence extended, proceed prosperously, and reign for the sake of truth and meekness and justice, and so will your right hand lead you wondrously.

Matthew Henry on Psalms 7:2-10

David Prays Against His Enemies; Prayer for Sinners and Saints. 1 O Lord my God, in thee do I put my trust: save me from all them that persecute me, and deliver me: 2 Lest he tear my soul like a lion, rending it in pieces, while there is none to deliver. 3 O Lord my God, if I have done this; if there be iniquity in my hands; 4 If I have rewarded evil unto him that was at peace with me; (yea, I have delivered him that without cause is mine enemy:) 5 Let the enemy persecute my soul, and take it; yea, let him tread… Read the whole commentary →

This Verse In Other Editions

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