Psalms 63:9 — KJV with Strong's Concordance

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⁹But those that seek my soul, to destroy it, shall go into the lower parts of the earth.

Psalms 63:9 —

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Cross-References

From the Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

Psalms 55:15
Let death seize upon them, and let them go down quick into hell: for wickedness is in their dwellings, and among them.
Psalms 40:14
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.
Psalms 9:17
The wicked shall be turned into hell, and all the nations that forget God.
Psalms 86:13
For great is thy mercy toward me: and thou hast delivered my soul from the lowest hell.
1 Samuel 25:29
Yet a man is risen to pursue thee, and to seek thy soul: but the soul of my lord shall be bound in the bundle of life with the LORD thy God; and the souls of thine enemies, them shall he sling out, as out of the middle of a sling.

Commentary

Matthew Henry’s Complete Commentary on the Bible (1710)

(vv. 7-11)

David, having expressed his desires towards God and his praises of him, here expresses his confidence in him and his joyful expectations from him (Ps. 63:7): In the shadow of thy wings I will rejoice, alluding either to the wings of the cherubim stretched out over the ark of the covenant, between which God is said to dwell (“I will rejoice in thy oracles, and in covenant and communion with thee”),…

Robert Jamieson, A. R. Fausset, David Brown’s Jamieson-Fausset-Brown Commentary (1871)

(vv. 9)

9-10. those ... to destroy it--or literally, “to ruin,” or, “for ruin”; that is, such as seek to injure me (are) for ruin, appointed to it (compare Psa 35:8). shall go ... earth--into the grave, or, to death; as their bodies are represented as a portion for--