Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

Summary

For strangers are risen up against me, and oppressors seek after my soul: they have not set God before them. Selah.

Bible References

Strangers

Psalm 69:8
I have become estranged from my brothers
And an alien to my mother’s sons.
Psalm 86:14
O God, arrogant men have risen up against me,
And a band of violent men have sought my life,
And they have not set You before them.
Job 19:13
“He has removed my brothers far from me,
And my acquaintances are completely estranged from me.

Oppressors

Psalm 22:16
For dogs have surrounded me;
A band of evildoers has encompassed me;
They pierced my hands and my feet.
Psalm 59:3
For behold, they have set an ambush for my life;
Fierce men launch an attack against me,
Not for my transgression nor for my sin, O Lord,
Matthew 27:20
But the chief priests and the elders persuaded the crowds to ask for Barabbas and to put Jesus to death.

They have

Psalm 16:8
I have set the Lord continually before me;
Because He is at my right hand, I will not be shaken.
Psalm 36:1
For the choir director. A Psalm of David the servant of the Lord.
Transgression speaks to the ungodly within his heart;
There is no fear of God before his eyes.
Psalm 53:4
Have the workers of wickedness no knowledge,
Who eat up My people as though they ate bread
And have not called upon God?
John 16:3
These things they will do because they have not known the Father or Me.