49 Bible Verses about Enemy Attacks

Because of the voice of the enemy, because of the oppression of the wicked: for they cast iniquity upon me, and in wrath they hate me.

[To the Chief Musician, altaschith. A michtam of David; when Saul sent, and they watched the house to kill him.] Deliver me from my enemies, O my God: defend me from them that rise up against me.

The LORD shall cause your enemies that rise up against you to be defeated before your face: they shall come out against you one way, and flee before you seven ways.

And stay you not there, but pursue after your enemies, and attack their rear guards; allow them not to enter into their cities: for the LORD your God has delivered them into your hand.

And the LORD said unto me, Say unto them, Go not up, neither fight; for I am not among you; lest you be smitten before your enemies.

And if you go to war in your land against the enemy that oppresses you, then you shall blow an alarm with the trumpets; and you shall be remembered before the LORD your God, and you shall be saved from your enemies.

My enemies would daily swallow me up: for they are many that fight against me, O most High.

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

For the Lord had made the army of the Syrians to hear a noise of chariots, and a noise of horses, even the noise of a great army: and they said one to another, Lo, the king of Israel has hired against us the kings of the Hittites, and the kings of the Egyptians, to come upon us.

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

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

And they shall fight against you; but they shall not prevail against you; for I am with you, says the LORD, to deliver you.

They that hate me without a cause are more than the hairs of my head: they that would destroy me, being my enemies wrongfully, are mighty: then I restored that which I took not away.

And you shall hear what they say; and afterward shall your hands be strengthened to go down unto the host. Then went he down with Phurah his servant unto the outside of the armed men that were in the host.

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

And when they came down to him, Elisha prayed unto the LORD, and said, Strike these people, I pray you, with blindness. And he struck them with blindness according to the word of Elisha.

When the wicked, even my enemies and my foes, came upon me to eat up my flesh, they stumbled and fell.

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.

From the wicked that oppress me, from my deadly enemies, who surround me.

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

And so it was, when Israel had sown, that the Midianites came up, and the Amalekites, and the children of the east, even they came up against them;

Put on the whole armor of God, that you may be able to stand against the wiles of the devil.

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

Arise, O LORD, in your anger, lift up yourself because of the rage of my enemies: and awake for me to the judgment that you have commanded.

Arise, and let us go by night, and let us destroy her palaces.

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

[To the Chief Musician. A Psalm of David.] Hear my voice, O God, in my prayer: preserve my life from fear of the enemy.

They also that render evil for good are my adversaries; because I follow the thing that is good.

But God shall wound the head of his enemies, and the hairy scalp of such a one as goes on still in his trespasses.

And in your mercy cut off my enemies, and destroy all them that afflict my soul: for I am your servant.

They gather themselves together, they hide themselves, they mark my steps, when they wait for my soul.

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

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

You shall seek them, and shall not find them, even them that contended with you: they that war against you shall be as nothing, and as a thing not existing.

Happy is the man that has his quiver full of them: they shall not be ashamed, but they shall speak with the enemies in the gate.

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:

And he saved them from the hand of him that hated them, and redeemed them from the hand of the enemy.

How he met you by the way, and attacked those behind you, even all that were feeble behind you, when you were faint and weary; and he feared not God.

He delivers me from my enemies: yea, you lift me up above those that rise up against me: you have delivered me from the violent man.

But now the LORD my God has given me rest on every side, so that there is neither adversary nor misfortune.

Harass the Midianites, and smite them:

You shall not be afraid for the terror by night; nor for the arrow that flies by day;

And the Lord shall deliver me from every evil work, and will preserve me unto his heavenly kingdom: to whom be glory forever and ever. Amen.

Behold, they shall surely gather together, but not from me: whosoever shall gather together against you shall fall for your sake.

And the LORD your God will put all these curses upon your enemies, and on them that hate you, who persecuted you.

Then we departed from the river of Ahava on the twelfth day of the first month, to go unto Jerusalem: and the hand of our God was upon us, and he delivered us from the hand of the enemy, and of such as lay in wait by the way.

They run and prepare themselves apart from my fault: awake to help me, and behold.

Moreover the multitude of your foes shall be like small dust, and the multitude of the terrible ones shall be like chaff that passes away: yea, it shall be in an instant, suddenly.

And I looked, and rose up, and said unto the nobles, and to the rulers, and to the rest of the people, Be not afraid of them: remember the Lord, who is great and awesome, and fight for your brethren, your sons, and your daughters, your wives, and your houses.