'Hater' in the Bible

Rewarding his haters to their face with destruction; he will have no mercy on his hater, but will give him open punishment.

And the chiefs of the Philistines came together to make a great offering to Dagon their god, and to be glad; for they said, Our god has given into our hands Samson our hater.

And Saul said to Michal, why have you been false to me, letting my hater go and get safely away? And in answer Michal said to Saul, He said to me, Let me go, or I will put you to death.

And David's men said to him, Now is the time when the Lord says to you, I will give up your hater into your hands to do with him whatever seems good to you. Then David, getting up, took the skirt of Saul's robe in his hand, cutting off the end of it without his knowledge.

If a man comes across his hater, will he let him get away safe? so may you be rewarded by the Lord for what you have done for me today.

Then Abishai said to David, God has given up your hater into your hands today; now let me give him one blow through to the earth with his spear, and there will be no need to give him a second.

And they took the head of Ish-bosheth to David in Hebron, and said to the king, Here is the head of Ish-bosheth, the son of Saul your hater, who would have taken your life; the Lord has taken payment for the wrongs of my lord the king from Saul and his seed today.

He made me free from my strong hater, from those who were against me, because they were stronger than I.

And Ahab said to Elijah, Have you come face to face with me, O my hater? And he said, I have come to you because you have given yourself up to do evil in the eyes of the Lord.

And the king took his ring from his hand and gave it to Haman, the son of Hammedatha the Agagite, the hater of the Jews.

And Esther said, Our hater and attacker is this evil Haman. Then Haman was full of fear before the king and the queen.

That day the king gave all the family of Haman, the hater of the Jews, to Esther the queen. And Mordecai came before the king, for Esther had made clear what he was to her.

The ten sons of Haman the son of Hammedatha, the hater of the Jews; but they put not a hand on any of their goods.

Because Haman, the son of Hammedatha the Agagite, the hater of all the Jews, had made designs for their destruction, attempting to get a decision by Pur (that is, chance) with a view to putting an end to them and cutting them off;

Or, Get me out of the power of my hater? or, Give money so that I may be free from the power of the cruel ones?

Let my hater be like the evil man, and let him who comes against me be as the sinner.

If I rejoice at the ruin of my hater, And stirred up myself when evil found him,

How may a hater of right be a ruler? and will you say that the upright Ruler of all is evil?

The sons of pride have no place before you; you are a hater of all workers of evil.

Let my hater go after my soul and take it; let my life be crushed to the earth, and my honour into the dust. (Selah.)

He made me free from my strong hater, and from those who were against me, because they were stronger than I.

I have been a hater of the band of wrongdoers, and I will not be seated among sinners.

And you have not given me into the hand of my hater; you have put my feet in a wide place.

He gives thought to evil on his bed; he takes a way which is not good; he is not a hater of evil.

By this I see that you have pleasure in me, because my hater does not overcome me.

Because of the voice of him who says sharp and bitter words; because of the hater and him who is the instrument of punishment.

You have been a lover of righteousness and a hater of evil: and so God, your God, has put the oil of joy on your head, lifting you high over all other kings.

For it was not my hater who said evil of me; that would have been no grief to me; it was not one outside the number of my friends who made himself strong against me, or I would have kept myself from him in a secret place;

O God, how long will those who are against us say cruel things? will the hater go on looking down on your name for ever?

And he let his strength be taken prisoner, and gave his glory into the hands of his hater.

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

Through your orders I get wisdom; for this reason I am a hater of every false way.

I am a hater of men of doubting mind; but I am a lover of your law.

Because of it I keep straight in all things by your orders; and I am a hater of every false way.

Go to the ant, you hater of work; give thought to her ways and be wise:

How long will you be sleeping, O hater of work? when will you get up from your sleep?

Like acid drink to the teeth and as smoke to the eyes, so is the hater of work to those who send him.

He who makes himself responsible for a strange man will undergo much loss; but the hater of such undertakings will be safe.

A lover of training is a lover of knowledge; but a hater of teaching is like a beast.

The hater of work does not get his desires, but the soul of the hard workers will be made fat.

The upright man is a hater of false words: the evil-doer gets a bad name and is put to shame.

The hater of authority, searching for wisdom, does not get it; but knowledge comes readily to the open-minded man.

There is bitter punishment for him who is turned from the way; and death will be the fate of the hater of teaching.

The hater of authority has no love for teaching: he will not go to the wise.

Thorns are round the way of the hater of work; but the road of the hard worker becomes a highway.

The hater of work puts his hand deep into the basin, and will not even take it to his mouth again.

The hater of work will not do his ploughing because of the winter; so at the time of grain-cutting he will be requesting food and will get nothing.

The desire of the hater of work is death to him, for his hands will do no work.

The hater of work says, There is a lion outside: I will be put to death in the streets.

The purpose of the foolish is sin: and the hater of authority is disgusting to others.

Do not be glad at the fall of your hater, and let not your heart have joy at his downfall:

I went by the field of the hater of work, and by the vine-garden of the man without sense;

If your hater is in need of food, give him bread; and if he is in need of drink, give him water:

The hater of work says, There is a lion in the way; a lion is in the streets.

A door is turned on its pillar, and the hater of work on his bed.

The hater of work puts his hand deep into the basin: lifting it again to his mouth is a weariness to him.

The hater of work seems to himself wiser than seven men who are able to give an answer with good sense.

By his lips doth a hater dissemble, And in his heart he placeth deceit,

The wounds of a friend are given in good faith, but the kisses of a hater are false.

Your lovers have no more thought for you, they go after you no longer; for I have given you the wound of a hater, even cruel punishment;

The Lord has said this: Keep your voice from sorrow and your eyes from weeping: for your work will be rewarded, says the Lord; and they will come back from the land of their hater.

The Lord has said, See, I will give up Pharaoh Hophra, king of Egypt, into the hands of those who are fighting against him and desiring to take his life, as I gave Zedekiah, king of Judah, into the hands of Nebuchadrezzar, king of Babylon, his hater, who had designs against his life.

Jerusalem keeps in mind, in the days of her sorrow and of her wanderings, all the desired things which were hers in days gone by; when her people came into the power of her hater and she had no helper, her attackers saw their desire effected on her and made sport of her destruction.

The hand of her hater is stretched out over all her desired things; for she has seen that the nations have come into her holy place, about whom you gave orders that they were not to come into the meeting of your people.

For these things I am weeping; my eye is streaming with water; because the comforter who might give me new life is far from me: my children are made waste, because the hater is strong.

The Lord has done that which was his purpose; he has put into force the orders which he gave in the days which are past; pulling down without pity, he has made your hater glad over you, lifting up the horn of those who were against you.

As in the day of a holy meeting you have made fears come round me on every side, and no one got away or was kept safe in the day of the Lord's wrath: those who were folded in my arms, whom I took care of, have been sent to their destruction by my hater.

This is what the Lord has said: Because your hater has said against you, Aha! and, The old waste places are our heritage, we have taken them:

Do not be glad because of my sorrow, O my hater: after my fall I will be lifted up; when I am seated in the dark, the Lord will be a light to me.

And my hater will see it and be covered with shame; she who said to me, Where is the Lord your God? my eyes will see their desire effected on her, now she will be crushed under foot like the dust of the streets.