Psalms 56:7
Shall they escape by iniquity? In anger cast down the peoples, God.
World English Bible
In The King James Version
Shall they escape by iniquity? in thine anger cast down the people, O God.
In Context
6They conspire and lurk, watching my steps. They are eager to take my life.
8You count my wanderings. You put my tears into your container. Aren’t they in your book?
Cross References
Psalms 37:32The wicked watch the righteous, and seek to kill him.
Psalms 55:9Confuse them, Lord, and confound their language, for I have seen violence and strife in the city.
Psalms 55:23But you, God, will bring them down into the pit of destruction. Bloodthirsty and deceitful men shall not live out half their days, but I will trust in you.
Psalms 94:20Shall the throne of wickedness have fellowship with you, which brings about mischief by statute?
Isaiah 28:15“Because you have said, ‘We have made a covenant with death, and we are in agreement with Sheol. When the overflowing scourge passes through, it won’t come to us; for we have made lies our refuge, and we have hidden ourselves under falsehood.’”
Jeremiah 10:25Pour out your wrath on the nations that don’t know you, and on the families that don’t call on your name; for they have devoured Jacob. Yes, they have devoured him, consumed him, and have laid waste his habitation.
Matthew Henry on Psalms 56:2-8
Prayer for Help under Oppression; Confidence in God. 1 Be merciful unto me, O God: for man would swallow me up; he fighting daily oppresseth me. 2 Mine enemies would daily swallow me up: for they be many that fight against me, O thou most High. 3 What time I am afraid, I will trust in thee. 4 In God I will praise his word, in God I have put my trust; I will not fear what flesh can do unto me. 5 Every day they wrest my words: all their thoughts are against me for evil. 6 They gather themselves together, they hide… Read the whole commentary →