רָדַף

They draw nigh that follow after mischief: they are far from thy law.

Many are my persecutors and mine enemies; yet do I not decline from thy testimonies.

SCHIN. Princes have persecuted me without a cause: but my heart standeth in awe of thy word.

Attend unto my cry; for I am brought very low: deliver me from my persecutors; for they are stronger than I.

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 dead.

As righteousness tendeth to life: so he that pursueth evil pursueth it to his own death.

He that tilleth his land shall be satisfied with bread: but he that followeth vain persons is void of understanding.

Evil pursueth sinners: but to the righteous good shall be repayed.

The way of the wicked is an abomination unto the LORD: but he loveth him that followeth after righteousness.

All the brethren of the poor do hate him: how much more do his friends go far from him? he pursueth them with words, yet they are wanting to him.

He that followeth after righteousness and mercy findeth life, righteousness, and honour.

The wicked flee when no man pursueth: but the righteous are bold as a lion.

He that tilleth his land shall have plenty of bread: but he that followeth after vain persons shall have poverty enough.

That which hath been is now; and that which is to be hath already been; and God requireth that which is past.

Thy princes are rebellious, and companions of thieves: every one loveth gifts, and followeth after rewards: they judge not the fatherless, neither doth the cause of the widow come unto them.

Woe unto them that rise up early in the morning, that they may follow strong drink; that continue until night, till wine inflame them!

The nations shall rush like the rushing of many waters: but God shall rebuke them, and they shall flee far off, and shall be chased as the chaff of the mountains before the wind, and like a rolling thing before the whirlwind.

But ye said, No; for we will flee upon horses; therefore shall ye flee: and, We will ride upon the swift; therefore shall they that pursue you be swift.

He pursued them, and passed safely; even by the way that he had not gone with his feet.

Hearken to me, ye that follow after righteousness, ye that seek the LORD: look unto the rock whence ye are hewn, and to the hole of the pit whence ye are digged.

O LORD, thou knowest: remember me, and visit me, and revenge me of my persecutors; take me not away in thy longsuffering: know that for thy sake I have suffered rebuke.

Let them be confounded that persecute me, but let not me be confounded: let them be dismayed, but let not me be dismayed: bring upon them the day of evil, and destroy them with double destruction.

But the LORD is with me as a mighty terrible one: therefore my persecutors shall stumble, and they shall not prevail: they shall be greatly ashamed; for they shall not prosper: their everlasting confusion shall never be forgotten.

And I will persecute them with the sword, with the famine, and with the pestilence, and will deliver them to be removed to all the kingdoms of the earth, to be a curse, and an astonishment, and an hissing, and a reproach, among all the nations whither I have driven them: