Bible Verses About Persecution

I will put enmities between thee and the woman, and thy seed and her seed: she shall crush thy head, and thou shalt lie in wait for her heel.

In the mean time there arose a new king over Egypt, that knew not Joseph:

And he said to his people: Behold the people of the children of Israel are numerous and stronger than we.

Come let us wisely oppress them, lest they multiply: and if any war shall rise against us, join with our enemies, and having overcome us, depart out of the land.

Therefore he set over them masters of the works, to afflict them with burdens: and they built for Pharao cities of tabernacles, Phithom, and Ramesses.

But the more they oppressed them, the more they were multiplied and increased.

And the Egyptians hated the children of Israel, and afflicted them and mocked them:

And they made their life bitter with hard works in clay and brick, and with all manner of service, wherewith they were overcharged in the works of the earth.

And he said: Wherefore doth my lord persecute his servant? What have I done? or what evil is there in my hand?

And Jezabel sent a messenger to Elias, saying: Such and such things may the gods do to me, and add still more, if by this hour to morrow I make not thy life as the life of one of them.

And tell them: Thus saith the king: Put this man in prison, and feed him with bread of affliction, and water of distress till I return in peace.

Why have the Gentiles raged, and the people devised vain things?

The kings of the earth stood up, and the princes met together, against the Lord, and against his Christ.

Let us break their bonds asunder: and let us cast away their yoke from us.

He that dwelleth in heaven shall laugh at them: and the Lord shall deride them.

Then shall he speak to them in his anger, and trouble them in his rage.

The psalm of David, which he sung to the Lord, for the words of Chusi, the son of Jemini.

Except you will be converted, he will brandish his sword; he hath bent his bow, and made it ready.

In the Lord I put my trust: how then do you say to my soul: Get thee away from hence to the mountain, like a sparrow.

Shall not all they know that work iniquity, who devour my people as they eat bread?

A psalm for David. The Lord ruleth me: and I shall want nothing.

He hath set me in a place of pasture. He hath brought me up, on the water of refreshment:

And thy mercy will follow me all the days of my life. And that I may dwell in the house of the Lord unto length of days.

All they that see me laugh me to scorn: they shoot out the lip, they shake the head, saying,

He trusted on the LORD that he would deliver him: let him deliver him, seeing he delighted in him.