Quotes About Persecution

Like godless jesters at a feast, they gnashed their teeth at me.

Though the wicked lie in wait for the righteous, and seek to slay them,

Many are my enemies without cause, and many hate me without reason.

Those who repay my good with evil attack me for pursuing the good.

You have given us up as sheep to be devoured; You have scattered us among the nations.

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

For the choirmaster. To the tune of “A Dove on Distant Oaks.” A Miktam of David, when the Philistines seized him in Gath. Be merciful to me, O God, for men are hounding me; all day they press their attack.

See how they lie in wait for me. Fierce men conspire against me for no transgression or sin of my own, O LORD.

For no fault of my own, they move swiftly to attack me. Arise to help me, and take notice.

But those who seek my life to destroy it will go into the depths of the earth.

Those who hate me without cause outnumber the hairs of my head; many are those who would destroy me—my enemies for no reason. Though I did not steal, I must repay.

because zeal for Your house has consumed me, and the insults of those who insult You have fallen on me.

I made sackcloth my clothing, and I was sport to them.

Those who sit at the gate mock me, and I am the song of drunkards.

For they persecute the one You struck and recount the pain of those You wounded.

They said in their hearts, “We will crush them completely.” They burned down every place where God met us in the land.

With cunning they scheme against Your people and conspire against those You cherish,

how Your enemies have taunted, O LORD, and have mocked every step of Your anointed one!

They crush Your people, O LORD; they oppress Your heritage.

They band together against the righteous and condemn the innocent to death.

All day long my enemies taunt me; they ridicule me and curse me.

They bruised his feet with shackles and placed his neck in irons,

For wicked and deceitful mouths open against me; they speak against me with lying tongues.

They surround me with hateful words and attack me without cause.