Psalm 7:5 {6}
Good News Translation
then let my enemies pursue me and catch me, let them cut me down and kill me and leave me lifeless on the ground!

New Revised Standard Version
then let the enemy pursue and overtake me, trample my life to the ground, and lay my soul in the dust. Selah

Contemporary English Version
If I have done any of this, then let my enemies chase and capture me. Let them trample me to death and leave me in the dirt.

New American Bible
Then let my enemy pursue and overtake my soul, trample my life to the ground, and lay my honor in the dust. Selah

Douay-Rheims Bible
Let the enemy pursue my soul, and take it, and tread down my life, on the earth, and bring down my glory to the dust.

Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

Let the enemy pursue my soul, and take it, and tread down my life, on the earth, and bring down my glory to the dust.

Let

Job 31:5-10,38-40 If I have walked in vanity, and my foot hath made haste to deceit: . . .

tread

Psalm 44:5 Thou art thyself my king and my God, who commandest the saving of Jacob.

Psalm 60:12 Through God we shall do mightily: and he shall bring to nothing them that afflict us.

Job 40:12 Look on all that are proud, and confound them, and crush the wicked in their place,

Isaiah 10:6 I will send him to a deceitful nation, and I will give him a charge against the people of my wrath, to take away the spoils, and to lay hold on the prey, and to tread them down like the mire of the streets.

Isaiah 63:3 I have trodden the winepress alone, and of the Gentiles there is not a man with me: I have trampled on them in my indignation, and have trodden them down in my wrath, and their blood is sprinkled upon my garments, and I have stained all my apparel.

Zechariah 10:5 And they shall be as mighty men, treading under foot the mire of the ways in battle: and they shall fight, because the Lord is with them, and the riders of horses shall be confounded.

Malachi 4:3 And you shall tread down the wicked when they shall be ashes under the sole of your feet in the day that I do this, saith the Lord of hosts.

lay

Psalm 49:12 And man when he was in honour did not understand; he is compared to senseless beasts, and is become like to them.

Job 16:15 I have sowed sackcloth upon my skin, and have covered my flesh with ashes.

Job 40:13 Hide them in the dust together, and plunge their faces into the pit.

Jeremiah 17:13 O Lord, the hope of Israel: all that forsake thee shall be confounded: they that depart from thee, shall be written in the earth: because they have forsaken the Lord, the vein of living waters.

Selah

Psalm 3:2 Many say to my soul: There is no salvation for him in his God.

Habakkuk 3:13 Thou wentest forth for the salvation of thy people: for salvation with thy Christ. Thou struckest the head of the house of the wicked: thou hast laid bare his foundation even to the neck.

Context
I Take Refuge in You
4If I have rendered to them that repaid me evils, let me deservedly fall empty before my enemies. 5Let the enemy pursue my soul, and take it, and tread down my life, on the earth, and bring down my glory to the dust.6Rise up, O Lord, in thy anger: and be thou exalted in the borders of my enemies. And arise, O Lord, my God, in the precept which thou hast commanded:…
Cross References
Job 16:15
I have sowed sackcloth upon my skin, and have covered my flesh with ashes.

Psalm 7:4
If I have rendered to them that repaid me evils, let me deservedly fall empty before my enemies.

Psalm 7:6
Rise up, O Lord, in thy anger: and be thou exalted in the borders of my enemies. And arise, O Lord, my God, in the precept which thou hast commanded:

Psalm 7:4
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