Psalms 49:5

World English Bible (2000)

Why should I fear in the days of evil, when iniquity at my heels surrounds me?

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  • Gen 49:17 : 17 Dan will be a serpent in the way, an adder in the path, That bites the horse's heels, so that his rider falls backward.
  • 1 Sam 26:20 : 20 Now therefore, don't let my blood fall to the earth away from the presence of Yahweh; for the king of Israel has come out to seek a flea, as when one hunts a partridge in the mountains."
  • Ps 22:16 : 16 For dogs have surrounded me. A company of evildoers have enclosed me. They have pierced my hands and feet.
  • Ps 23:4 : 4 Even though I walk through the valley of the shadow of death, I will fear no evil, for you are with me. Your rod and your staff, they comfort me.
  • Ps 27:1-2 : 1 Yahweh is my light and my salvation. Whom shall I fear? Yahweh is the strength of my life. Of whom shall I be afraid? 2 When evildoers came at me to eat up my flesh, even my adversaries and my foes, they stumbled and fell.
  • Ps 38:4 : 4 For my iniquities have gone over my head. As a heavy burden, they are too heavy for me.
  • Ps 46:1-2 : 1 God is our refuge and strength, a very present help in trouble. 2 Therefore we won't be afraid, though the earth changes, though the mountains are shaken into the heart of the seas;
  • Ps 56:6-7 : 6 They conspire and lurk, watching my steps, they are eager to take my life. 7 Shall they escape by iniquity? In anger cast down the peoples, God.
  • Prov 5:22 : 22 The evil deeds of the wicked ensnare him. The cords of his sin hold him firmly.
  • Prov 24:10 : 10 If you falter in the time of trouble, your strength is small.
  • Isa 41:10-11 : 10 Don't you be afraid, for I am with you. Don't be dismayed, for I am your God. I will strengthen you. Yes, I will help you. Yes, I will uphold you with the right hand of my righteousness. 11 Behold, all those who are incensed against you will be disappointed and confounded. Those who strive with you will be like nothing, and shall perish.
  • Hos 7:2 : 2 They don't consider in their hearts that I remember all their wickedness. Now their own deeds have engulfed them. They are before my face.
  • Amos 5:13 : 13 Therefore a prudent person keeps silent in such a time, for it is an evil time.
  • Acts 27:24 : 24 saying, 'Don't be afraid, Paul. You must stand before Caesar. Behold, God has granted you all those who sail with you.'
  • Rom 8:33-34 : 33 Who could bring a charge against God's chosen ones? It is God who justifies. 34 Who is he who condemns? It is Christ who died, yes rather, who was raised from the dead, who is at the right hand of God, who also makes intercession for us.
  • Eph 5:16 : 16 redeeming the time, because the days are evil.
  • Phil 1:28 : 28 and in nothing frightened by the adversaries, which is for them a proof of destruction, but to you of salvation, and that from God.

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