Psalms 56:7
Shall they escape by iniquity? in yours anger cast down the people, O God.
Updated King James Version
In The King James Version
Shall they escape by iniquity? in thine anger cast down the people, O God.
In Context
8You tell my wanderings: put you my tears into your bottle: are they not in your book?
Cross References
Psalms 37:32The wicked watches the righteous, and seeks to slay him.
Psalms 55:9Destroy, O Lord, and divide their tongues: for I have seen violence and strife in the city.
Psalms 55:23But you, O God, shall bring them down into the pit of destruction: bloody and deceitful men shall not live out half their days; but I will trust in you.
Psalms 94:20Shall the throne of iniquity have fellowship with you, which frames mischief by a law?
Isaiah 28:15Because all of you have said, We have made a covenant with death, and with hell are we at agreement; when the overflowing scourge shall pass through, it shall not come unto us: for we have made lies our refuge, and under falsehood have we hid ourselves:
Jeremiah 10:25Pour out your fury upon the heathen that know you not, and upon the families that call not on your name: for they have eaten up Jacob, and devoured him, and consumed him, and have made his habitation desolate.
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 →