Six ways to encounter God here
A passage is not only to be understood; it is to be lived with. Choose how you want to meet God in Psalms 25:19, and Living Bread opens it right there.
Read itSit with the words themselves in The Word.Study itContext, cross-references, and questions in Bible Study.Be still in itLet it quiet you in the Sanctuary.Pray itTurn it into a prayer of your own.Hide it in your heartMemorize it, word by word.Encounter it togetherGather a few people to walk through it.
The web of Scripture around it
Where this passage echoes across the Bible, from the cross-reference graph, 12 connected Scriptures. Each one is a door to meet God there too.
- Psalms 86:14
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.
- Psalms 140:11
Let not an evil speaker be established in the earth: evil shall hunt the violent man to overthrow him.
- Psalms 140:4
Keep me, O LORD, from the hands of the wicked; preserve me from the violent man; who have purposed to overthrow my goings.
- Luke 22:2
And the chief priests and scribes sought how they might kill him; for they feared the people.
- Psalms 57:4
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 sh…
- Psalms 3:1
Lord, how are they increased that trouble me! many are they that rise up against me.
- Psalms 38:19
But mine enemies are lively, and they are strong: and they that hate me wrongfully are multiplied.
- Psalms 143:3
For the enemy hath persecuted my soul; he hath smitten my life down to the ground; he hath made me to dwell in darkness, as those that have been long …
- Psalms 140:1
Deliver me, O LORD, from the evil man: preserve me from the violent man;
- Psalms 52:2
Thy tongue deviseth mischiefs; like a sharp razor, working deceitfully.
- Psalms 27:12
Deliver me not over unto the will of mine enemies: for false witnesses are risen up against me, and such as breathe out cruelty.
- Psalms 56:2
Mine enemies would daily swallow me up: for they be many that fight against me, O thou most High.
More to meet God in Psalms
How it points to Christ
Every Scripture ultimately leads to Jesus. See how the whole Bible points to Him in Christ in all Scripture, then meet Him for yourself.