Psalm 143:3
For the enemy has pursued my soul, crushing my life to the ground, making me dwell in darkness like those long since dead.
Cross References
Psalm 44:25
For our soul has sunk to the dust; our bodies cling to the earth.

Psalm 55:3
at the voice of the enemy, at the pressure of the wicked. For they release disaster upon me and revile me in their anger.

Psalm 74:20
Consider Your covenant, for haunts of violence fill the dark places of the land.

Psalm 88:6
You have laid me in the lowest Pit, in the darkest of the depths.

Psalm 107:10
Some sat in darkness and in the shadow of death, prisoners in affliction and chains,

Lamentations 3:6
He has made me dwell in darkness like those dead for ages.


Treasury of Scripture
For the enemy has persecuted my soul; he has smitten my life down to the ground; he has made me to dwell in darkness, as those that have been long dead.

the enemy



Psalm 7:1,2
Shiggaion of David, which he sang unto the LORD, concerning the words of Cush the Benjamite. O LORD my God, in thee do I put my trust: save me from all them that persecute me, and deliver me: …



Psalm 17:9-13
From the wicked that oppress me, from my deadly enemies, who compass me about…



Psalm 35:4
Let them be confounded and put to shame that seek after my soul: let them be turned back and brought to confusion that devise my hurt.

smitten



Psalm 7:5
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.



2 Samuel 2:22
And Abner said again to Asahel, Turn thee aside from following me: wherefore should I smite thee to the ground? how then should I hold up my face to Joab thy brother?



2 Samuel 18:11
And Joab said unto the man that told him, And, behold, thou sawest him, and why didst thou not smite him there to the ground? and I would have given thee ten shekels of silver, and a girdle.

made me



Psalm 31:12,13
I am forgotten as a dead man out of mind: I am like a broken vessel…



Psalm 88:4-6
I am counted with them that go down into the pit: I am as a man that hath no strength: …



Ezekiel 37:11
Then he said unto me, Son of man, these bones are the whole house of Israel: behold, they say, Our bones are dried, and our hope is lost: we are cut off for our parts.


                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                           
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