49 Bible Verses about Enemy Attacks

because of [the] voice [of] an enemy, because of the oppression of the wicked, because they bring down evil on me, and in anger they hold a grudge [against] me.

Deliver me from my enemies, O my God. Protect me from those who rise up against me.

"Yahweh will cause your enemies {who rise up against you to be defeated before you}; on one road they shall come out [against] you, but on seven roads they shall flee {before you}.

But do not stay [there]; pursue after your enemies and attack them from the rear. Do not allow them to go into their cities, for Yahweh your God has given them into your hand."

So Yahweh said to me, 'Say to them, "You shall not go up, and you shall not fight because I am not in your midst; you will be defeated {before} your enemies." '

If you go [to] war in your land against the enemy who attacks you, you will signal with a loud noise on the trumpets. You will be remembered {before} Yahweh your God, and you will be rescued from your enemies.

My enemies trample all day, because many [are] attacking me proudly.

Contend, O Yahweh, with my contenders; fight [those who] fight me.

Now the Lord had caused the camp of [the] Arameans to hear the sound of chariots, the sound of horses, and the sound of a great army. So they said {to one another}, "Look, the king of Israel has hired the kings of the Hittites and the kings of Egypt to come against us!"

"If [it had] not [been] Yahweh who was on our side, when men rose up against us,

And [so] my eye looks on my enemies. My ears hear those evildoers who rise up against me.

And they will fight against you but they will not prevail against you, for I [am] with you," {declares} Yahweh, "to deliver you."

More numerous than the hairs of my head are [those] hating me without a cause. [Those who are] destroying me--my enemies wrongfully-- are mighty. What I did not steal, I then must restore.

and you will hear what they say; and afterward {you will have courage}, and you will go down against the camp." Then he went down with Purah his servant to the outpost of the armed men that [were] in the camp.

Though an army encamp against me, my heart will not fear. Though war arise against me, [even] in this I [will] remain confident.

They came down to him, and Elisha prayed to Yahweh and said, "Please strike this people with blindness," so he struck them with blindness as {Elisha had spoken}.

When evildoers drew near against me to eat my flesh-- my adversaries and my enemies [who drew near] to me-- they themselves stumbled and fell.

For look, they lie in wait for my life. The mighty attack against me, not [because of] my transgression or my sin, O Yahweh.

from [the] {presence} of [the] wicked who destroy me, [those] enemies against my life, [they that] surround me.

For my enemies talk concerning me, and those who watch for my life conspire together,

And whenever Israel sowed seed, the Midianites, Amalekites, and the people of [the] east would come up against them.

Put on the full armor of God, so that you may be able to stand against the stratagems of the devil,

They also surround me with words of hate, and fight me without cause.

Rise up, O Yahweh, in your anger, and lift yourself up against the wrath of my oppressors, and awake for me, since you have commanded judgment.

Arise, and let us attack by night, and let us destroy her citadel fortresses."

I would subdue their enemies quickly, and turn my hand against their adversaries.

Hear my voice, O God, in my lamenting. Preserve my life from [the] fear of [the] enemy.

And those who repay evil in return for good accuse me in return for my pursuing good.

But God will shatter the head of his enemies, the hairy scalp [of the one who] {continues on} in his guilt.

And in your loyal love destroy my enemies, and exterminate all [the] adversaries of my soul, for I [am] your servant.

They attack, they hide, they watch my {steps}, as they [lie in] wait for my life.

"Too often they have attacked me from my youth, yet they have not prevailed against me.

I am not afraid of the ten thousands of people who all around have set themselves against me.

You shall seek them, but you shall not find them; {your opponents} shall be like nothing, and the men of your war like nothing.

Blessed [is] the man who fills his quiver with them. They shall not be put to shame when they speak with enemies at the gate.

For [it is] not an enemy [that] taunts me, or I could bear [it]. [It is not] one who hates me [that] magnifies himself over me, or I could hide myself from him.

Thus he saved them from [the] hand of [the] hater and redeemed them from [the] hand of [the] enemy.

that he met you on the journey and attacked you, all those lagging behind you and [when] you were weary and worn out, and he did not fear God.

who delivered me from my enemies. Indeed, you exalted me higher than [those who] rose against me. You delivered me from the man of violence.

But now Yahweh my God has given me rest all around me. There is no adversary, and there is no bad occurrence.

"Attack the Midianites and strike them

You need not fear [the] terror of [the] night, [or the] arrow [that] flies by day,

The Lord will rescue me from every evil deed, and will save [me] for his heavenly kingdom, to whom [be] the glory {forever and ever}. Amen.

If indeed one attacks, [it is] not from me; whoever attacks you shall fall because of you.

And Yahweh your God will put all these curses on your enemies and {on those who hate you}, [on] {those who harassed you}.

On the twelfth day of the first month we set out from the river of Ahava to go to Jerusalem. The hand of our God was on us and he delivered us from the hand of the enemy and from ambushing on the way.

Without guilt on my part they run and ready themselves. Awake to meet me and see.

But the multitude of your strangers shall be like fine dust, and [the] multitude of tyrants like chaff that passes by. And it will happen [in] an instant, suddenly.

And I looked, got up, and said to the nobles, prefects, and the rest of the people, "Do not be afraid of them. Remember the Lord, who is great and awesome, and fight for your brothers, your sons, your daughters, your wives, and your houses."