'Adversaries' in the Bible

But if thou shalt indeed hearken unto his voice, and do all that I speak; then I will be an enemy unto thine enemies, and an adversary unto thine adversaries.

God bringeth him forth out of Egypt; He hath as it were the strength of the wild-ox: He shall eat up the nations his adversaries, And shall break their bones in pieces, And smite them through with his arrows.

Were it not that I feared the provocation of the enemy, Lest their adversaries should judge amiss, Lest they should say, Our hand is exalted, And Jehovah hath not done all this.

If I whet my glittering sword, And my hand take hold on judgment; I will render vengeance to mine adversaries, And will recompense them that hate me.

Rejoice, O ye nations, with his people: For he will avenge the blood of his servants, And will render vengeance to his adversaries, And will make expiation for his land, for his people.

And this is the blessing of Judah: and he said, Hear, Jehovah, the voice of Judah, And bring him in unto his people. With his hands he contended for himself; And thou shalt be a help against his adversaries.

And it came to pass, when Joshua was by Jericho, that he lifted up his eyes and looked, and, behold, there stood a man over against him with his sword drawn in his hand: and Joshua went unto him, and said unto him, Art thou for us, or for our adversaries?

And David said, What have I to do with you, ye sons of Zeruiah, that ye should this day be adversaries unto me? shall there any man be put to death this day in Israel? for do not I know that I am this day king over Israel?

And David went out to meet them, and answered and said unto them, If ye be come peaceably unto me to help me, my heart shall be knit unto you; but if ye be come to betray me to mine adversaries, seeing there is no wrong in my hands, the God of our fathers look thereon, and rebuke it.

Now when the adversaries of Judah and Benjamin heard that the children of the captivity were building a temple unto Jehovah, the God of Israel;

And our adversaries said, They shall not know, neither see, till we come into the midst of them, and slay them, and cause the work to cease.

Therefore thou deliveredst them into the hand of their adversaries, who distressed them: and in the time of their trouble, when they cried unto thee, thou heardest from heaven; and according to thy manifold mercies thou gavest them saviours who saved them out of the hand of their adversaries.

He hath also kindled his wrath against me, And he counteth me unto him as one of his adversaries.

Jehovah, how are mine adversaries increased! Many are they that rise up against me.

Mine eye wasteth away because of grief; It waxeth old because of all mine adversaries.

Arise, O Jehovah, in thine anger; Lift up thyself against the rage of mine adversaries, And awake for me; thou hast commanded judgment.

Out of the mouth of babes and sucklings hast thou established strength, Because of thine adversaries, That thou mightest still the enemy and the avenger.

His ways are firm at all times; Thy judgments are far above out of his sight: As for all his adversaries, he puffeth at them.

Lest mine enemy say, I have prevailed against him; Lest mine adversaries rejoice when I am moved.

When evil-doers came upon me to eat up my flesh, Even mine adversaries and my foes, they stumbled and fell.

Deliver me not over unto the will of mine adversaries: For false witnesses are risen up against me, And such as breathe out cruelty.

Because of all mine adversaries I am become a reproach, Yea, unto my neighbors exceedingly, And a fear to mine acquaintance: They that did see me without fled from me.

They also that render evil for good Are adversaries unto me, because I follow the thing that is good.

As with a sword in my bones, mine adversaries reproach me, While they continually say unto me, Where is thy God?

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

But thou hast saved us from our adversaries, And hast put them to shame that hate us.

Through God we shall do valiantly; For he it is that will tread down our adversaries.

Thou knowest my reproach, and my shame, and my dishonor: Mine adversaries are all before thee.

Let them be put to shame and consumed that are adversaries to my soul; Let them be covered with reproach and dishonor that seek my hurt.

Thine adversaries have roared in the midst of thine assembly; They have set up their ensigns for signs.

Forget not the voice of thine adversaries: The tumult of those that rise up against thee ascendeth continually.

And he smote his adversaries backward: He put them to a perpetual reproach.

I would soon subdue their enemies, And turn my hand against their adversaries.

And I will beat down his adversaries before him, And smite them that hate him.

Thou hast exalted the right hand of his adversaries; Thou hast made all his enemies to rejoice.

A fire goeth before him, And burneth up his adversaries round about.

And he increased his people greatly, And made them stronger than their adversaries.

And the waters covered their adversaries; There was not one of them left.

Through God we shall do valiantly: For he it is that will tread down our adversaries.

For my love they are my adversaries: But I give myself unto prayer.

This is the reward of mine adversaries from Jehovah, And of them that speak evil against my soul.

Let mine adversaries be clothed with dishonor, And let them cover themselves with their own shame as with a robe.

His heart is established, he shall not be afraid, Until he see his desire upon his adversaries.

My zeal hath consumed me, Because mine adversaries have forgotten thy words.

Many are my persecutors and mine adversaries; Yet have I not swerved from thy testimonies.

And hath delivered us from our adversaries; For his lovingkindness endureth for ever:

Therefore saith the Lord, Jehovah of hosts, the Mighty One of Israel, Ah, I will ease me of mine adversaries, and avenge me of mine enemies;

Therefore Jehovah will set up on high against him the adversaries of Rezin, and will stir up his enemies,

Jehovah, thy hand is lifted up, yet they see not: but they shall see thy zeal for the people, and be put to shame; yea, fire shall devour thine adversaries.

According to their deeds, accordingly he will repay, wrath to his adversaries, recompense to his enemies; to the islands he will repay recompense.

Thy holy people possessed it but a little while: our adversaries have trodden down thy sanctuary.

as when fire kindleth the brushwood, and the fire causeth the waters to boil; to make thy name known to thine adversaries, that the nations may tremble at thy presence!

Therefore all they that devour thee shall be devoured; and all thine adversaries, every one of them, shall go into captivity; and they that despoil thee shall be a spoil, and all that prey upon thee will I give for a prey.

For that day is a day of the Lord, Jehovah of hosts, a day of vengeance, that he may avenge him of his adversaries: and the sword shall devour and be satiate, and shall drink its fill of their blood; for the Lord, Jehovah of hosts, hath a sacrifice in the north country by the river Euphrates.

All that found them have devoured them; and their adversaries said, We are not guilty, because they have sinned against Jehovah, the habitation of righteousness, even Jehovah, the hope of their fathers.

Her adversaries are become the head, her enemies prosper; For Jehovah hath afflicted her for the multitude of her transgressions: Her young children are gone into captivity before the adversary.

Jerusalem remembereth in the days of her affliction and of her miseries all her pleasant things that were from the days of old: When her people fell into the hand of the adversary, and none did help her, The adversaries saw her, they did mock at her desolations.

Zion spreadeth forth her hands; there is none to comfort her; Jehovah hath commanded concerning Jacob, that they that are round about him should be his adversaries: Jerusalem is among them as an unclean thing.

Jehovah hath done that which he purposed; he hath fulfilled his word that he commanded in the days of old; He hath thrown down, and hath not pitied: And he hath caused the enemy to rejoice over thee; he hath exalted the horn of thine adversaries.

And I will set a fire in Egypt: Sin shall be in great anguish, and No shall be broken up; and Memphis'shall have adversaries in the day-time.

And the nations shall know that the house of Israel went into captivity for their iniquity; because they trespassed against me, and I hid my face from them: so I gave them into the hand of their adversaries, and they fell all of them by the sword.

Then Daniel, whose name was Belteshazzar, was stricken dumb for a while, and his thoughts troubled him. The king answered and said, Belteshazzar, let not the dream, or the interpretation, trouble thee. Belteshazzar answered and said, My lord, the dream be to them that hate thee, and the interpretation thereof to thine adversaries.

Let thy hand be lifted up above thine adversaries, and let all thine enemies be cut off.

Jehovah is a jealous God and avengeth; Jehovah avengeth and is full of wrath; Jehovah taketh vengeance on his adversaries, and he reserveth wrath for his enemies.

And as he said these things, all his adversaries were put to shame: and all the multitude rejoiced for all the glorious things that were done by him.

for I will give you a mouth and wisdom, which all your adversaries shall not be able to withstand or to gainsay.

for a great door and effectual is opened unto me, and there are many adversaries.

and in nothing affrighted by the adversaries: which is for them an evident token of perdition, but of your salvation, and that from God;

but a certain fearful expectation of judgment, and a fierceness of fire which shall devour the adversaries.