Bible Verses About Persecution

Be merciful unto me, O God: for man would swallow me up; he fighting daily oppresseth me.

Mine enemies would daily swallow me up: for they be many that fight against me, O thou most High.

Every day they wrest my words: all their thoughts are against me for evil.

For the voice of him that reproacheth and blasphemeth; by reason of the enemy and avenger.

They gather themselves together, they hide themselves, they mark my steps, when they wait for my soul.

My soul is among lions: and I lie even among them that are set on fire, even the sons of men, whose teeth are spears and arrows, and their tongue a sharp sword.

Thine enemies roar in the midst of thy congregations; they set up their ensigns for signs.

O God, the proud are risen against me, and the assemblies of violent men have sought after my soul; and have not set thee before them.

Let this be the reward of mine adversaries from the Lord, and of them that speak evil against my soul.

They compassed me about; yea, they compassed me about: but in the name of the Lord I will destroy them.

Thou hast thrust sore at me that I might fall: but the Lord helped me.

The proud have forged a lie against me: but I will keep thy precepts with my whole heart.

The proud have digged pits for me, which are not after thy law.

All thy commandments are faithful: they persecute me wrongfully; help thou me.

They had almost consumed me upon earth; but I forsook not thy precepts.

I am small and despised: yet do not I forget thy precepts.

The plowers plowed upon my back: they made long their furrows.

Let them all be confounded and turned back that hate Zion.

They gaped upon me with their mouths, as a ravening and a roaring lion.

Let them be desolate for a reward of their shame that say unto me, Aha, aha.

From the wicked that oppress me, from my deadly enemies, who compass me about.

Many bulls have compassed me: strong bulls of Bashan have beset me round.

For I have heard the slander of many: fear was on every side: while they took counsel together against me, they devised to take away my life.

The wicked plotteth against the just, and gnasheth upon him with his teeth.

With hypocritical mockers in feasts, they gnashed upon me with their teeth.

Let them be ashamed and confounded together that seek after my soul to destroy it; let them be driven backward and put to shame that wish me evil.

All that hate me whisper together against me: against me do they devise my hurt.

Yea, for thy sake are we killed all the day long; we are counted as sheep for the slaughter.

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

They return at evening: they make a noise like a dog, and go round about the city.

And at evening let them return; and let them make a noise like a dog, and go round about the city.

Deliver me out of the mire, and let me not sink: let me be delivered from them that hate me, and out of the deep waters.

They said in their hearts, Let us destroy them together: they have burned up all the synagogues of God in the land.

Remember this, that the enemy hath reproached, O Lord, and that the foolish people have blasphemed thy name.

For, lo, thine enemies make a tumult: and they that hate thee have lifted up the head.

They have taken crafty counsel against thy people, and consulted against thy hidden ones.

They have said, Come, and let us cut them off from being a nation; that the name of Israel may be no more in remembrance.

Remember, Lord, the reproach of thy servants; how I do bear in my bosom the reproach of all the mighty people;

For the mouth of the wicked and the mouth of the deceitful are opened against me: they have spoken against me with a lying tongue.

They compassed me about also with words of hatred; and fought against me without a cause.