Psalm 143:12 {142:12}
Good News Translation
Because of your love for me, kill my enemies and destroy all my oppressors, for I am your servant.

New Revised Standard Version
In your steadfast love cut off my enemies, and destroy all my adversaries, for I am your servant.

Contemporary English Version
I am your servant. Show how much you love me by destroying my enemies.

New American Bible
In your mercy put an end to my foes; all those who are oppressing my soul, for I am your servant.

Douay-Rheims Bible
And in thy mercy thou wilt destroy my enemies. And thou wilt cut off all them that afflict my soul: for I am thy servant.

Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

And in thy mercy thou wilt destroy my enemies. And thou wilt cut off all them that afflict my soul: for I am thy servant.

of thy mercy

Psalm 54:5 Turn back the evils upon my enemies; and cut them off in thy truth.

Psalm 55:23 But thou, O God, shalt bring them down into the pit of destruction. Bloody and deceitful men shall not live out half their days; but I will trust in thee, O Lord.

Psalm 136:15-20 And overthrew Pharao and his host in the Red Sea: for his mercy endureth for ever. . . .

1 Samuel 24:12-15 The Lord judge between me and thee and the Lord revenge me of thee: but my hand shall not be upon thee. . . .

1 Samuel 25:29 For if a man at any time shall rise, and persecute thee, and seek thy life, the soul of my lord shall be kept, as in the bundle of the living, with the Lord thy God: but the souls of thy enemies shall be whirled, as with the violence and whirling of a sling.

1 Samuel 26:10 And David said: As the Lord liveth, unless the Lord shall strike him, or his day shall come to die, or he shall go down to battle, and perish:

for I am thy

Psalm 116:16 O Lord, for I am thy servant: I am thy servant, and the son of thy handmaid. Thou hast broken my bonds:

Psalm 119:94 I am thine, save thou me: for I have sought thy justifications.

Context
I Stretch Out My Hands to You
11for thy name's sake, O Lord, thou wilt quicken me in thy justice. Thou wilt bring my soul out of trouble: 12And in thy mercy thou wilt destroy my enemies. And thou wilt cut off all them that afflict my soul: for I am thy servant.
Cross References
Psalm 52:5
Therefore will God destroy thee for ever: he will pluck thee out, and remove thee from thy dwelling place: and thy root out of the land of the living.

Psalm 54:5
Turn back the evils upon my enemies; and cut them off in thy truth.

Psalm 116:16
O Lord, for I am thy servant: I am thy servant, and the son of thy handmaid. Thou hast broken my bonds:

Psalm 143:11
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