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Psalm 143:12

In your loving kindness, cut off my enemies, and destroy all those who afflict my soul, for I am your servant.

10Teach me to do your will, for you are my God. Your Spirit is good. Lead me in the land of uprightness.
11Revive me, LORD, for your name’s sake. In your righteousness, bring my soul out of trouble.
12In your loving kindness, cut off my enemies, and destroy all those who afflict my soul, for I am your servant.
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“In your loving kindness” begins a plea for enemies to be destroyed, a hard prayer from a servant who has just asked to learn God's will.

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Where else Scripture says this

11 passages readers most often link with this verse, and the thread each one shares with it.

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Psalm 54:5He will repay the evil to my enemies. Destroy them in your truth.Both prayers ask God to destroy enemies, appealing to his loving kindness in Psalm 143 and his truth in Psalm 54.
Judges 16:28Samson called to the LORD, and said, “Lord GOD, remember me, please, and strengthen me, please, only this once, God, that I may be at once avenged of the …Both prayers seek God's action against those who have inflicted harm; Samson names the loss of his eyes and asks for vengeance.
Psalm 116:16LORD, truly I am your servant. I am your servant, the son of your servant girl. You have freed me from my chains.Both speakers name themselves as God's servant; one asks for enemies' destruction, while the other recounts freedom from chains.
Psalm 119:94I am yours. Save me, for I have sought your precepts.Both appeals seek God's saving help on the ground of belonging to him.
Psalm 31:15My times are in your hand. Deliver me from the hand of my enemies, and from those who persecute me.Both prayers turn to God for rescue from enemies who threaten the speaker.
1 Samuel 26:10David said, “As the LORD lives, the LORD will strike him; or his day shall come to die, or he shall go down into battle and perish.Both texts place the death of an adversary in the LORD's hands.
1 Samuel 24:12–15May the LORD judge between me and you, and may the LORD avenge me of you; but my hand will not be on you.Both appeal to the LORD to act against an adversary; David also states that his own hand will remain restrained.
1 Samuel 25:29Though men may rise up to pursue you and to seek your soul, yet the soul of my lord will be bound in the bundle of life with the LORD your God. He will sling …Both texts connect God's care for someone under threat with the destruction of that person's enemies.
Acts 27:23For there stood by me this night an angel, belonging to the God whose I am and whom I serve,Both speakers identify themselves through their relationship to God as people who belong to him and serve him.
Romans 6:22But now, being made free from sin and having become servants of God, you have your fruit of sanctification and the result of eternal life.Both describe belonging to God as his servant; Romans speaks of freedom from sin and the result of eternal life.
Isaiah 14:1For the LORD will have compassion on Jacob, and will yet choose Israel, and set them in their own land. The foreigner will join himself with them, and they …God's loving kindness and his compassion are the shared thread; Isaiah speaks of restoring Israel to their land.
Where this verse fits

Injustice and anger. fear for the future.

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Encouragement

The servant entrusts judgment to God while seeking his guidance; the request for enemies' destruction remains a prayer under God's authority, never a warrant for personal violence.

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