'Adversaries' in the Bible

But if you truly obey his voice and do all that I say, then I will be an enemy to your enemies and an adversary to your adversaries.

“God brings him out of Egypt,He is for him like the horns of the wild ox.He will devour the nations who are his adversaries,And will crush their bones in pieces,And shatter them with his arrows.

Had I not feared the provocation by the enemy,That their adversaries would misjudge,That they would say, “Our hand is triumphant,And the Lord has not done all this.”’

If I sharpen My flashing sword,And My hand takes hold on justice,I will render vengeance on My adversaries,And I will repay those who hate Me.

“Rejoice, O nations, with His people;For He will avenge the blood of His servants,And will render vengeance on His adversaries,And will atone for His land and His people.”

And this regarding Judah; so he said,“Hear, O Lord, the voice of Judah,And bring him to his people.With his hands he contended for them,And may You be a help against his adversaries.”

Now it came about when Joshua was by Jericho, that he lifted up his eyes and looked, and behold, a man was standing opposite him with his sword drawn in his hand, and Joshua went to him and said to him, “Are you for us or for our adversaries?”

David went out to meet them, and said to them, “If you come peacefully to me to help me, my heart shall be united with you; but if to betray me to my adversaries, since there is no wrong in my hands, may the God of our fathers look on it and decide.”

Saying, ‘Truly our adversaries are cut off,And their abundance the fire has consumed.’

A Psalm of David, when he fled from Absalom his son.O Lord, how my adversaries have increased!Many are rising up against me.

My eye has wasted away with grief;It has become old because of all my adversaries.

Arise, O Lord, in Your anger;Lift up Yourself against the rage of my adversaries,And arouse Yourself for me; You have appointed judgment.

From the mouth of infants and nursing babes You have established strengthBecause of Your adversaries,To make the enemy and the revengeful cease.

His ways prosper at all times;Your judgments are on high, out of his sight;As for all his adversaries, he snorts at them.

And my enemy will say, “I have overcome him,”And my adversaries will rejoice when I am shaken.

When evildoers came upon me to devour my flesh,My adversaries and my enemies, they stumbled and fell.

Do not deliver me over to the desire of my adversaries,For false witnesses have risen against me,And such as breathe out violence.

Because of all my adversaries, I have become a reproach,Especially to my neighbors,And an object of dread to my acquaintances;Those who see me in the street flee from me.

As a shattering of my bones, my adversaries revile me,While they say to me all day long, “Where is your God?”

Through You we will push back our adversaries;Through Your name we will trample down those who rise up against us.

But You have saved us from our adversaries,And You have put to shame those who hate us.

Through God we shall do valiantly,And it is He who will tread down our adversaries.

You know my reproach and my shame and my dishonor;All my adversaries are before You.

Let those who are adversaries of my soul be ashamed and consumed;Let them be covered with reproach and dishonor, who seek to injure me.

Your adversaries have roared in the midst of Your meeting place;They have set up their own standards for signs.

Do not forget the voice of Your adversaries,The uproar of those who rise against You which ascends continually.

He drove His adversaries backward;He put on them an everlasting reproach.

“I would quickly subdue their enemiesAnd turn My hand against their adversaries.

“But I shall crush his adversaries before him,And strike those who hate him.

You have exalted the right hand of his adversaries;You have made all his enemies rejoice.

Fire goes before HimAnd burns up His adversaries round about.

And He caused His people to be very fruitful,And made them stronger than their adversaries.

The waters covered their adversaries;Not one of them was left.

Through God we will do valiantly,And it is He who shall tread down our adversaries.

His heart is upheld, he will not fear,Until he looks with satisfaction on his adversaries.

My zeal has consumed me,Because my adversaries have forgotten Your words.

Many are my persecutors and my adversaries,Yet I do not turn aside from Your testimonies.

And has rescued us from our adversaries,For His lovingkindness is everlasting;

Therefore the Lord God of hosts,The Mighty One of Israel, declares,“Ah, I will be relieved of My adversariesAnd avenge Myself on My foes.

Therefore the Lord raises against them adversaries from RezinAnd spurs their enemies on,

According to their deeds, so He will repay,Wrath to His adversaries, recompense to His enemies;To the coastlands He will make recompense.

Your holy people possessed Your sanctuary for a little while,Our adversaries have trodden it down.

As fire kindles the brushwood, as fire causes water to boil—To make Your name known to Your adversaries,That the nations may tremble at Your presence!

‘Therefore all who devour you will be devoured;And all your adversaries, every one of them, will go into captivity;And those who plunder you will be for plunder,And all who prey upon you I will give for prey.

“All who came upon them have devoured them;And their adversaries have said, ‘We are not guilty,Inasmuch as they have sinned against the Lord who is the habitation of righteousness,Even the Lord, the hope of their fathers.’

Her adversaries have become her masters,Her enemies prosper;For the Lord has caused her griefBecause of the multitude of her transgressions;Her little ones have gone awayAs captives before the adversary.

In the days of her affliction and homelessnessJerusalem remembers all her precious thingsThat were from the days of old,When her people fell into the hand of the adversaryAnd no one helped her.The adversaries saw her,They mocked at her ruin.

Zion stretches out her hands;There is no one to comfort her;The Lord has commanded concerning JacobThat the ones round about him should be his adversaries;Jerusalem has become an unclean thing among them.

The Lord has done what He purposed;He has accomplished His wordWhich He commanded from days of old.He has thrown down without sparing,And He has caused the enemy to rejoice over you;He has exalted the might of your adversaries.

The nations will know that the house of Israel went into exile for their iniquity because they acted treacherously against Me, and I hid My face from them; so I gave them into the hand of their adversaries, and all of them fell by the sword.

“Then Daniel, whose name is Belteshazzar, was appalled for a while as his thoughts alarmed him. The king responded and said, ‘Belteshazzar, do not let the dream or its interpretation alarm you.’ Belteshazzar replied, ‘My lord, if only the dream applied to those who hate you and its interpretation to your adversaries!

Your hand will be lifted up against your adversaries,And all your enemies will be cut off.

A jealous and avenging God is the Lord;The Lord is avenging and wrathful.The Lord takes vengeance on His adversaries,And He reserves wrath for His enemies.

for a wide door for effective service has opened to me, and there are many adversaries.

but a terrifying expectation of judgment and the fury of a fire which will consume the adversaries.