'Against' in the Bible

The kings of the earth set themselves, and the rulers take counsel together, against the LORD, and against his anointed, saying,

{A Psalm of David, when he fled from Absalom his son.} LORD, how are they increased that trouble me! many are they that rise up against me.

I will not be afraid of ten thousands of people, that have set themselves against me round about.

Destroy thou them, O God; let them fall by their own counsels; cast them out in the multitude of their transgressions; for they have rebelled against thee.

He hath also prepared for him the instruments of death; he ordaineth his arrows against the persecutors.

He sitteth in the lurking places of the villages: in the secret places doth he murder the innocent: his eyes are privily set against the poor.

Lest mine enemy say, I have prevailed against him; and those that trouble me rejoice when I am moved.

He that backbiteth not with his tongue, nor doeth evil to his neighbour, nor taketh up a reproach against his neighbour.

He that putteth not out his money to usury, nor taketh reward against the innocent. He that doeth these things shall never be moved.

Shew thy marvellous lovingkindness, O thou that savest by thy right hand them which put their trust in thee from those that rise up against them.

For thou hast girded me with strength unto the battle: thou hast subdued under me those that rose up against me.

He delivereth me from mine enemies: yea, thou liftest me up above those that rise up against me: thou hast delivered me from the violent man.

For they intended evil against thee: they imagined a mischievous device, which they are not able to perform.

Therefore shalt thou make them turn their back, when thou shalt make ready thine arrows upon thy strings against the face of them.

Though an host should encamp against me, my heart shall not fear: though war should rise against me, in this will I be confident.

Deliver me not over unto the will of mine enemies: for false witnesses are risen up against me, and such as breathe out cruelty.

For I have heard the slander of many: fear was on every side: while they took counsel together against me, they devised to take away my life.

Let the lying lips be put to silence; which speak grievous things proudly and contemptuously against the righteous.

The face of the LORD is against them that do evil, to cut off the remembrance of them from the earth.

{A Psalm of David.} Plead my cause, O LORD, with them that strive with me: fight against them that fight against me.

Draw out also the spear, and stop the way against them that persecute me: say unto my soul, I am thy salvation.

But in mine adversity they rejoiced, and gathered themselves together: yea, the abjects gathered themselves together against me, and I knew it not; they did tear me, and ceased not:

For they speak not peace: but they devise deceitful matters against them that are quiet in the land.

Yea, they opened their mouth wide against me, and said, Aha, aha, our eye hath seen it.

Let them be ashamed and brought to confusion together that rejoice at mine hurt: let them be clothed with shame and dishonour that magnify themselves against me.

Let not the foot of pride come against me, and let not the hand of the wicked remove me.

{A Psalm of David.} Fret not thyself because of evildoers, neither be thou envious against the workers of iniquity.

The wicked plotteth against the just, and gnasheth upon him with his teeth.

For I said, Hear me, lest otherwise they should rejoice over me: when my foot slippeth, they magnify themselves against me.

I said, LORD, be merciful unto me: heal my soul; for I have sinned against thee.

All that hate me whisper together against me: against me do they devise my hurt.

Yea, mine own familiar friend, in whom I trusted, which did eat of my bread, hath lifted up his heel against me.

Judge me, O God, and plead my cause against an ungodly nation: O deliver me from the deceitful and unjust man.

Through thee will we push down our enemies: through thy name will we tread them under that rise up against us.

Hear, O my people, and I will speak; O Israel, and I will testify against thee: I am God, even thy God.

Thou sittest and speakest against thy brother; thou slanderest thine own mother's son.

Against thee, thee only, have I sinned, and done this evil in thy sight: that thou mightest be justified when thou speakest, and be clear when thou judgest.

There were they in great fear, where no fear was: for God hath scattered the bones of him that encampeth against thee: thou hast put them to shame, because God hath despised them.

For strangers are risen up against me, and oppressors seek after my soul: they have not set God before them. Selah.

For it was not an enemy that reproached me; then I could have borne it: neither was it he that hated me that did magnify himself against me; then I would have hid myself from him:

He hath delivered my soul in peace from the battle that was against me: for there were many with me.

He hath put forth his hands against such as be at peace with him: he hath broken his covenant.

Mine enemies would daily swallow me up: for they be many that fight against me, O thou most High.

Every day they wrest my words: all their thoughts are against me for evil.

{To the chief Musician, Altaschith, Michtam of David; when Saul sent, and they watched the house to kill him.} Deliver me from mine enemies, O my God: defend me from them that rise up against me.

For, lo, they lie in wait for my soul: the mighty are gathered against me; not for my transgression, nor for my sin, O LORD.

How long will ye imagine mischief against a man? ye shall be slain all of you: as a bowing wall shall ye be, and as a tottering fence.

Iniquities prevail against me: as for our transgressions, thou shalt purge them away.

They that sit in the gate speak against me; and I was the song of the drunkards.

For mine enemies speak against me; and they that lay wait for my soul take counsel together,

They set their mouth against the heavens, and their tongue walketh through the earth.

If I say, I will speak thus; behold, I should offend against the generation of thy children.

{Maschil of Asaph.} O God, why hast thou cast us off for ever? why doth thine anger smoke against the sheep of thy pasture?

Forget not the voice of thine enemies: the tumult of those that rise up against thee increaseth continually.

And they sinned yet more against him by provoking the most High in the wilderness.

Yea, they spake against God; they said, Can God furnish a table in the wilderness?

Therefore the LORD heard this, and was wroth: so a fire was kindled against Jacob, and anger also came up against Israel;

O remember not against us former iniquities: let thy tender mercies speedily prevent us: for we are brought very low.

O LORD God of hosts, how long wilt thou be angry against the prayer of thy people?

I should soon have subdued their enemies, and turned my hand against their adversaries.

They have taken crafty counsel against thy people, and consulted against thy hidden ones.

For they have consulted together with one consent: they are confederate against thee:

O God, the proud are risen against me, and the assemblies of violent men have sought after my soul; and have not set thee before them.

They shall bear thee up in their hands, lest thou dash thy foot against a stone.

Mine eye also shall see my desire on mine enemies, and mine ears shall hear my desire of the wicked that rise up against me.

Who will rise up for me against the evildoers? or who will stand up for me against the workers of iniquity?

They gather themselves together against the soul of the righteous, and condemn the innocent blood.

Mine enemies reproach me all the day; and they that are mad against me are sworn against me.

He sent darkness, and made it dark; and they rebelled not against his word.

Therefore he lifted up his hand against them, to overthrow them in the wilderness:

Therefore was the wrath of the LORD kindled against his people, insomuch that he abhorred his own inheritance.

Because they rebelled against the words of God, and contemned the counsel of the most High:

For the mouth of the wicked and the mouth of the deceitful are opened against me: they have spoken against me with a lying tongue.

They compassed me about also with words of hatred; and fought against me without a cause.

Let this be the reward of mine adversaries from the LORD, and of them that speak evil against my soul.

Thy word have I hid in mine heart, that I might not sin against thee.

Princes also did sit and speak against me: but thy servant did meditate in thy statutes.

The proud have forged a lie against me: but I will keep thy precepts with my whole heart.

If it had not been the LORD who was on our side, when men rose up against us:

Then they had swallowed us up quick, when their wrath was kindled against us:

Many a time have they afflicted me from my youth: yet they have not prevailed against me.

Happy shall he be, that taketh and dasheth thy little ones against the stones.

Though I walk in the midst of trouble, thou wilt revive me: thou shalt stretch forth thine hand against the wrath of mine enemies, and thy right hand shall save me.

For they speak against thee wickedly, and thine enemies take thy name in vain.

Do not I hate them, O LORD, that hate thee? and am not I grieved with those that rise up against thee?