'Against' in the Bible

and testified against them, that you might bring them again to your law. Yet they dealt proudly, and didn't listen to your commandments, but sinned against your ordinances, (which if a man does, he shall live in them), turned their backs, stiffened their neck, and would not hear.

Yet many years you put up with them, and testified against them by your Spirit through your prophets. Yet would they not give ear. Therefore you gave them into the hand of the peoples of the lands.

neither have our kings, our princes, our priests, nor our fathers, kept your law, nor listened to your commandments and your testimonies with which you testified against them.

Also Bakbukiah and Unno, their brothers, were over against them according to their offices.

The chiefs of the Levites: Hashabiah, Sherebiah, and Jeshua the son of Kadmiel, with their brothers over against them, to praise and give thanks, according to the commandment of David the man of God, watch next to watch.

because they didn't meet the children of Israel with bread and with water, but hired Balaam against them, to curse them: however our God turned the curse into a blessing.

In those days saw I in Judah some men treading winepresses on the Sabbath, and bringing in sheaves, and loading donkeys [therewith]; as also wine, grapes, and figs, and all kinds of burdens, which they brought into Jerusalem on the Sabbath day: and I testified [against them] in the day in which they sold food.

Then I testified against them, and said to them, "Why do you stay around the wall? If you do so again, I will lay hands on you." From that time on, they didn't come on the Sabbath.

Shall we then listen to you to do all this great evil, to trespass against our God in marrying foreign women?"

After these things, when the wrath of King Ahasuerus was pacified, he remembered Vashti, and what she had done, and what was decreed against her.

A copy of the letter, that the decree should be given out in every province, was published to all the peoples, that they should be ready against that day.

"Go, gather together all the Jews who are present in Shushan, and fast for me, and neither eat nor drink three days, night or day. I and my maidens will also fast the same way. Then I will go in to the king, which is against the law; and if I perish, I perish."

Then Haman went out that day joyful and glad of heart, but when Haman saw Mordecai in the king's gate, that he didn't stand up nor move for him, he was filled with wrath against Mordecai.

Haman recounted to Zeresh his wife and all his friends everything that had happened to him. Then his wise men and Zeresh his wife said to him, "If Mordecai, before whom you have begun to fall, is of Jewish descent, you will not prevail against him, but you will surely fall before him."

The king arose in his wrath from the banquet of wine and went into the palace garden. Haman stood up to make request for his life to Esther the queen; for he saw that there was evil determined against him by the king.

Esther spoke yet again before the king, and fell down at his feet, and begged him with tears to put away the mischief of Haman the Agagite, and his device that he had devised against the Jews.

because Haman the son of Hammedatha, the Agagite, the enemy of all the Jews, had plotted against the Jews to destroy them, and had cast "Pur," that is the lot, to consume them, and to destroy them;

but when this became known to the king, he commanded by letters that his wicked device, which he had devised against the Jews, should return on his own head, and that he and his sons should be hanged on the gallows.

Yahweh said to Satan, "Have you considered my servant Job? For there is none like him in the earth, a blameless and an upright man, one who fears God, and turns away from evil. He still maintains his integrity, although you incited me against him, to ruin him without cause."

For the arrows of the Almighty are within me. My spirit drinks up their poison. The terrors of God set themselves in array against me.

If your children have sinned against him, He has delivered them into the hand of their disobedience.

God who is wise in heart, and mighty in strength: who has hardened himself against him, and prospered?

You renew your witnesses against me, and increase your indignation on me. Changes and warfare are with me.

But oh that God would speak, and open his lips against you,

For you write bitter things against me, and make me inherit the iniquities of my youth:

You forever prevail against him, and he departs. You change his face, and send him away.

Your own mouth condemns you, and not I. Yes, your own lips testify against you.

That you turn your spirit against God, and let such words go out of your mouth?

Distress and anguish make him afraid. They prevail against him, as a king ready to the battle.

Because he has stretched out his hand against God, and behaves himself proudly against the Almighty;

I also could speak as you do. If your soul were in my soul's place, I could join words together against you, and shake my head at you,

You have shriveled me up. This is a witness against me. My leanness rises up against me. It testifies to my face.

They have gaped on me with their mouth. They have struck me on the cheek reproachfully. They gather themselves together against me.

Upright men shall be astonished at this. The innocent shall stir up himself against the godless.

If indeed you will magnify yourselves against me, and plead against me my reproach;

He has also kindled his wrath against me. He counts me among his adversaries.

His troops come on together, build a siege ramp against me, and encamp around my tent.

Even young children despise me. If I arise, they speak against me.

All my familiar friends abhor me. They whom I loved have turned against me.

The heavens shall reveal his iniquity. The earth shall rise up against him.

saying, 'Surely those who rose up against us are cut off. The fire has consumed the remnant of them.'

"These are of those who rebel against the light. They don't know its ways, nor stay in its paths.

"Let my enemy be as the wicked. Let him who rises up against me be as the unrighteous.

On my right hand rise the rabble. They thrust aside my feet, They cast up against me their ways of destruction.

if I have lifted up my hand against the fatherless, because I saw my help in the gate,

If my land cries out against me, and its furrows weep together;

Then the wrath of Elihu the son of Barachel, the Buzite, of the family of Ram, was kindled against Job. His wrath was kindled because he justified himself rather than God.

Also his wrath was kindled against his three friends, because they had found no answer, and yet had condemned Job.

for he has not directed his words against me; neither will I answer him with your speeches.

Behold, he finds occasions against me. He counts me for his enemy.

Why do you strive against him, because he doesn't give account of any of his matters?

For he adds rebellion to his sin. He claps his hands among us, and multiplies his words against God."

If you have sinned, what effect do you have against him? If your transgressions are multiplied, what do you do to him?

which I have reserved against the time of trouble, against the day of battle and war?

The quiver rattles against him, the flashing spear and the javelin.

It was so, that after Yahweh had spoken these words to Job, Yahweh said to Eliphaz the Temanite, "My wrath is kindled against you, and against your two friends; for you have not spoken of me the thing that is right, as my servant Job has.

The kings of the earth take a stand, and the rulers take counsel together, against Yahweh, and against his Anointed, saying,

Yahweh, how my adversaries have increased! Many are those who rise up against me.

I will not be afraid of tens of thousands of people who have set themselves against me on every side.

Hold them guilty, God. Let them fall by their own counsels; Thrust them out in the multitude of their transgressions, for they have rebelled against you.

Arise, Yahweh, in your anger. Lift up yourself against the rage of my adversaries. Awake for me. You have commanded judgment.

He lies in wait near the villages. From ambushes, he murders the innocent. His eyes are secretly set against the helpless.

Lest my enemy say, "I have prevailed against him;" Lest my adversaries rejoice when I fall.

He who doesn't slander with his tongue, nor does evil to his friend, nor casts slurs against his fellow man;

he who doesn't lend out his money for usury, nor take a bribe against the innocent. He who does these things shall never be shaken. A Poem by David.

For you have armed me with strength to the battle. You have subdued under me those who rose up against me.

He rescues me from my enemies. Yes, you lift me up above those who rise up against me. You deliver me from the violent man.

For they intended evil against you. They plotted evil against you which cannot succeed.

They open their mouths wide against me, lions tearing prey and roaring.

Though an army should encamp against me, my heart shall not fear. Though war should rise against me, even then I will be confident.

Don't deliver me over to the desire of my adversaries, for false witnesses have risen up against me, such as breathe out cruelty.

For I have heard the slander of many, terror on every side, while they conspire together against me, they plot to take away my life.

Let the lying lips be mute, which speak against the righteous insolently, with pride and contempt.

Yahweh's face is against those who do evil, to cut off the memory of them from the earth.

Contend, Yahweh, with those who contend with me. Fight against those who fight against me.

But in my adversity, they rejoiced, and gathered themselves together. The attackers gathered themselves together against me, and I didn't know it. They tore at me, and didn't cease.

For they don't speak peace, but they devise deceitful words against those who are quiet in the land.

Yes, they opened their mouth wide against me. They said, "Aha! Aha! Our eye has seen it!"

Let them be disappointed and confounded together who rejoice at my calamity. Let them be clothed with shame and dishonor who magnify themselves against me.

Don't let the foot of pride come against me. Don't let the hand of the wicked drive me away.

Don't fret because of evildoers, neither be envious against those who work unrighteousness.

The wicked plots against the just, and gnashes at him with his teeth.

I said, "Yahweh, have mercy on me! Heal me, for I have sinned against you."

My enemies speak evil against me: "When will he die, and his name perish?"

All who hate me whisper together against me. They imagine the worst for me.

Yes, my own familiar friend, in whom I trusted, who ate bread with me, has lifted up his heel against me.

Vindicate me, God, and plead my cause against an ungodly nation. Oh, deliver me from deceitful and wicked men.

Through you, will we push down our adversaries. Through your name, will we tread them under who rise up against us.

"Hear, my people, and I will speak; Israel, and I will testify against you. I am God, your God.

You sit and speak against your brother. You slander your own mother's son.

Against you, and you only, have I sinned, and done that which is evil in your sight; that you may be proved right when you speak, and justified when you judge.

There they were in great fear, where no fear was, for God has scattered the bones of him who encamps against you. You have put them to shame, because God has rejected them.

For strangers have risen up against me. Violent men have sought after my soul. They haven't set God before them. Selah.

Because of the voice of the enemy, Because of the oppression of the wicked. For they bring suffering on me. In anger they hold a grudge against me.

For it was not an enemy who insulted me, then I could have endured it. Neither was it he who hated me who raised himself up against me, then I would have hidden myself from him.

He has redeemed my soul in peace from the battle that was against me, although there are many who oppose me.

He raises his hands against his friends. He has violated his covenant.

My enemies want to swallow me up all day long, for they are many who fight proudly against me.

All day long they twist my words. All their thoughts are against me for evil.

Deliver me from my enemies, my God. Set me on high from those who rise up against me.