Skip to main content
Psalmlog Logo
Read

Psalm 25:19

Consider my enemies, for they are many. They hate me with cruel hatred.

17The troubles of my heart are enlarged. Oh bring me out of my distresses.
18Consider my affliction and my travail. Forgive all my sins.
19Consider my enemies, for they are many. They hate me with cruel hatred.
20Oh keep my soul, and deliver me. Let me not be disappointed, for I take refuge in you.
21Let integrity and uprightness preserve me, for I wait for you.
World English BibleRead in NIV in Psalmlog →
← Psalm 25:18Psalm 25:20 →
Notice

The plea to consider enemies names both their number and their cruelty, showing how prayer can speak without softening the harshness of human hatred.

Questions to write on. Each one opens a new entry with this verse already attached.

What would you want God to consider about hostility you have faced?

Write on this

How does naming cruel hatred before God differ from making plans to retaliate?

Write on this
Connect

Where else Scripture says this

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

This verse's connections, by chapterThe Bible's strongest chapter linksHover or tap a book to trace it
Psalm 13:3Behold, and answer me, LORD, my God. Give light to my eyes, lest I sleep in death;Both prayers ask God to look upon the speaker's distress and attend to an urgent plea.
Psalm 52:2Your tongue plots destruction, like a sharp razor, working deceitfully.Psalm 25 names cruel hatred, while Psalm 52 describes the harm of a tongue that plots destruction.
Psalm 143:3For the enemy pursues my soul. He has struck my life down to the ground. He has made me live in dark places, as those who have been long dead.Both psalms speak of enemies, with Psalm 143 describing the crushing effects of an enemy's pursuit.
Psalm 86:14God, the proud have risen up against me. A company of violent men have sought after my soul, and they don’t hold regard for you before them.Both prayers bring hostile groups before God: many enemies in Psalm 25 and a company of violent men in Psalm 86.
Luke 22:2The chief priests and the scribes sought how they might put him to death, for they feared the people.The psalm names cruel enemies; Luke describes leaders seeking a way to put Jesus to death.
Luke 23:5But they insisted, saying, “He stirs up the people, teaching throughout all Judea, beginning from Galilee even to this place.”Both passages describe opposition, though Luke records an insistent accusation rather than an explicit statement of hatred.
2 Samuel 17:2–4I will come on him while he is weary and exhausted, and will make him afraid. All the people who are with him will flee. I will strike the king only,The psalm names cruel hatred; the plan to frighten an exhausted king and strike him depicts such hostility.
2 Samuel 16:11David said to Abishai and to all his servants, “Behold, my son, who came out of my bowels, seeks my life. How much more this Benjamite, now? Leave him alone, …Both texts name personal hostility; David describes a threat to his life from his own son.
Luke 23:21–23but they shouted, saying, “Crucify! Crucify him!”Cruel hatred is named in the psalm and expressed in Luke through shouted demands for Jesus' crucifixion.
Where this verse fits

Injustice and anger. fear for the future.

What the Bible says about anger →What the Bible says about fear →
One step

Something small to carry out of this verse

Ask God to consider one instance of cruelty

prayeroncelight
Encouragement

You do not have to soften cruelty when you pray. Here, hatred is named without disguise, and the plea for help is addressed to God.

Now put it in your words.

Start an entry on Psalm 25:19. Write what it stirs. Psalmlog sets your words beside Scripture and gives you one next step. Your first entry is free, no account needed.

Keep goingPsalm 25 · the whole chapter with its connection mapPsalms · every chapterBuild a reading plan through Psalms

Cross-reference data from OpenBible.info (CC BY). Scripture from the World English Bible (public domain). Arc diagram after Chris Harrison and Christoph Römhild (2007).