'Adversaries' in the Bible

and blessed is God Most High, who hath delivered thine adversaries into thy hand;' and he giveth to him a tenth of all.

You overthrew Your adversariesby Your great majesty.You unleashed Your burning wrath;it consumed them like stubble.

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

And Moses saw the people how they were stripped; for Aaron had stripped them to their shame before their adversaries.

God is bringing him out of Egypt; As the swiftness of a Reem is to him, He eateth up nations his adversaries, And their bones he breaketh, And with his arrows he smiteth,

for they are adversaries to you with their frauds, with which they have acted fraudulently to you, concerning the matter of Peor, and concerning the matter of Cozbi, daughter of a prince of Midian, their sister, who is smitten in the day of the plague for the matter of Peor.'

Were it not that I feared the wrath of the enemy, lest their adversaries should behave themselves strangely, and lest they should say, Our hand is high, and the LORD hath not done all this.

when I sharpen My flashing sword,and My hand takes hold of judgment,I will take vengeance on My adversariesand repay those who 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 be merciful unto his land, and to his people.

And this is for Judah; and he saith: -- Hear, O Jehovah, the voice of Judah, And unto his people do Thou bring him in; His hand hath striven for him, And an help from his adversaries art Thou.

Lord, bless his possessions,and accept the work of his hands.Smash the loins of his adversaries and enemies,so that they cannot rise again.

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 I also have said, I do not cast them out from your presence, and they have been to you for adversaries, and their gods are to you for a snare.'

So in his burning anger against Israel, the LORD gave them into the domination of marauders who plundered them. The enemies who surrounded the Israelis controlled them, and they were no longer able to withstand their adversaries.

The adversaries of the LORD shall be broken to pieces; out of heaven shall he thunder upon them: the LORD shall judge the ends of the earth; and he shall give strength unto his king, and exalt the horn of his anointed.

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?

You have clothed me with strength for battle;You subdue my adversaries beneath me.

He frees me from my enemies.You exalt me above my adversaries;You rescue me from violent men.

And Gad came to David, and told him, and said to him, Shall seven years of famine come to thee in thy land? or wilt thou flee three months before thine adversaries while they pursue thee? or shall there be three days' pestilence in thy land? Now be aware and consider what word I shall bring again to him that sent me.

But now the LORD has given me rest all around, since I have neither foreign adversaries nor domestic crises.

These Israelites took away their livestock: their 50,000 camels, and 250,000 sheep, and 2,000 donkeys; and 100,000 people.

and David goeth out before them, and answereth and saith to them, 'If for peace ye have come in unto me, to help me, I have a heart to unite with you; and if to betray me to mine adversaries -- without violence in my hands -- the God of our fathers doth see and reprove.'

either for three years -- famine, or three months to be consumed from the face of thine adversaries, even the sword of thine enemies to overtake, or three days the sword of Jehovah, even pestilence in the land, and a messenger of Jehovah destroying in all the border of Israel; and now, see; what word do I return to Him who is sending me?'

Now when the adversaries of Judah and Benjamin heard that the children of the captivity builded the temple unto the LORD God of Israel;

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

It so happened that when our adversaries heard that we were aware of these matters, God frustrated their intentions. Then all of us returned to the wall, each to his own work.

and Thou givest them into the hand of their adversaries, and they distress them, and in the time of their distress they cry unto Thee, and Thou, from the heavens, dost hear, and, according to Thine abundant mercies, dost give to them saviours, and they save them out of the hand of their adversaries.

The king thereby allowed the Jews who were in every city to assemble and to stand up for themselves -- to destroy, to kill, and to annihilate any army of whatever people or province that should become their adversaries, including their women and children, and to confiscate their property.

The rest of the Jews who were throughout the provinces of the king assembled in order to stand up for themselves and to have rest from their enemies. They killed seventy-five thousand of their adversaries, but they did not confiscate their property.

And He kindleth against me His anger, And reckoneth me to Him as His adversaries.

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

“After it, His voice roars;He thunders with the voice of His majesty,And He does not restrain His lightning [against His adversaries] when His voice is heard.

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

Lord, lead me in Your righteousnessbecause of my adversaries;make Your way straight before me.

Old from provocation is mine eye, It is old because of all mine adversaries,

Rise up, Lord, in Your anger;lift Yourself up against the fury of my adversaries;awake for me;You have ordained a judgment.

Because of Your adversaries,You have established a strongholdfrom the mouths of children and nursing infantsto silence the enemy and the avenger.

His ways are always secure;Your lofty judgments are beyond his sight;he scoffs at all his adversaries.

Lest mine enemy say, 'I overcame him,' Mine adversaries joy when I am moved.

From the wicked who despoil and deal violently with me,My deadly enemies who surround me.

You have clothed me with strength for battle;You subdue my adversaries beneath me.

He frees me from my enemies.You exalt me above my adversaries;You rescue me from violent men.

Thou arrangest before me a table, Over-against my adversaries, Thou hast anointed with oil my head, My cup is full!

When evil doers come near to me to eat my flesh, My adversaries and mine enemies to me, They have stumbled and fallen.

Because of my adversaries,show me Your way, Lord,and lead me on a level path.

Give me not to the will of my adversaries, For risen against me have false witnesses, And they breathe out violence to me.

I am ridiculed by all my adversariesand even by my neighbors.I am dreaded by my acquaintances;those who see me in the street run from me.

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

My adversaries taunt me,as if crushing my bones,while all day long they say to me,“Where is your God?”

By Thee our adversaries we do push, By Thy name tread down our withstanders,

For Thou hast saved us from our adversaries, And those hating us Thou hast put to shame.

He will repay my adversaries for their evil.Because of Your faithfulness, annihilate them.

My adversaries trample me all day,for many arrogantly fight against me.

My faithful God will come to meet me;God will let me look down on my adversaries.

In God we do mightily, And He treadeth down our adversaries!

For the music director; by David, a psalm, a song. God springs into action! His enemies scatter; his adversaries run from him.

Thou hast known my reproach, and my shame, and my dishonour: mine adversaries are all before thee.

Let them be confounded and consumed that are adversaries to my soul; let them be covered with reproach and dishonour that seek my hurt.

Your adversaries roared in the meeting placewhere You met with us.They set up their emblems as signs.

Do not forget the clamor of Your adversaries,the tumult of Your opponents that goes up constantly.

He beat back his adversaries, permanently disgracing them.

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

And I have beaten down before him his adversaries, And those hating him I plague,

Thou hast set up the right hand of his adversaries; thou hast made all his enemies to rejoice.

For behold, Your enemies, O Lord,For behold, Your enemies will perish;All who do evil will be scattered.

Fire before Him goeth, And burneth round about His adversaries.

My enemies taunt me all day long;Those who ridicule me use my name as a curse.

And He maketh His people very fruitful, And maketh it mightier than its adversaries.

And waters cover their adversaries, One of them hath not been left.

In God we do mightily, And He doth tread down our adversaries!

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

Let this be the reward of mine adversaries from the LORD, and of them that speak evil against my soul.

Let them curse, but You bless.When adversaries arise, let them be ashamed,But let Your servant rejoice.

Let mine adversaries be clothed with shame, and let them cover themselves with their own confusion, as with a mantle.

The Lord (Father) says to my Lord (the Messiah, His Son),“Sit at My right handUntil I make Your enemies a footstool for Your feet [subjugating them into complete submission].”

Sustained is his heart -- he feareth not, Till that he look on his adversaries.

Your commands make me wiser than my adversaries, since they are always with me.

Cut me off hath my zeal, For mine adversaries forgot Thy words.

Though my persecutors and adversaries are numerous, I do not turn aside from your decrees.

How blessed [happy and fortunate] is the man whose quiver is filled with them;They will not be ashamedWhen they speak with their enemies [in gatherings] at the [city] gate.

And He delivereth us from our adversaries, For to the age is His kindness.

And in Thy kindness cuttest off mine enemies, And hast destroyed all the adversaries of my soul, For I am Thy servant!

Therefore saith the Lord, the LORD of hosts, the mighty One of Israel, Ah, I will ease me of mine adversaries, and avenge me of mine enemies:

Therefore the LORD shall set up the adversaries of Rezin against him, and join his enemies together;

The envy also of Ephraim shall depart, and the adversaries of Judah shall be cut off: Ephraim shall not envy Judah, and Judah shall not vex Ephraim.

Lord, Your hand is lifted up to take action,but they do not see it.They will see Your zeal for Your people,and they will be put to shame.The fire for Your adversaries will consume them!

Look, all who were angry at you will be ashamed and humiliated; your adversaries will be reduced to nothing and perish.

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

The people of thy holiness have possessed it but a little while: our adversaries have trodden down thy sanctuary.

As when the melting fire burneth, the fire causeth the waters to boil, to make thy name known to thine adversaries, that the nations may tremble at thy presence!

Pay attention to me, O Lord [and intercede];Listen to what my adversaries are saying [and are plotting against me]—

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

For this is the day of the Lord GOD of hosts, a day of vengeance, that he may avenge him of his adversaries: and the sword shall devour, and it shall be satiate and made drunk with their blood: for the Lord GOD of hosts hath a sacrifice in the north country by the river Euphrates.

For the ascent of Luhith with weeping, Go up doth weeping, For in the descent of Horonaim Adversaries a cry of desolation have heard.

All that found them have devoured them: and their adversaries said, We offend not, because they have sinned against the LORD, the habitation of justice, even the LORD, the hope of their fathers.

Her adversaries are the chief, her enemies prosper; for the LORD hath afflicted her for the multitude of her transgressions: her children are gone into captivity before the enemy.

Jerusalem remembered in the days of her affliction and of her miseries all her pleasant things that she had in the days of old, when her people fell into the hand of the enemy, and none did help her: the adversaries saw her, and did mock at her sabbaths.

Zion spreadeth forth her hands, and there is none to comfort her: the LORD hath commanded concerning Jacob, that his adversaries should be round about him: Jerusalem is as a menstruous woman among them.

People heard how I groan, with no one to comfort me. All my adversaries have heard about my troubles; they rejoice that you have caused them. Bring on the day you have promised, so my adversaries will become like me.

The LORD hath done that which he had devised; he hath fulfilled his word that he had commanded in the days of old: he hath thrown down, and hath not pitied: and he hath caused thine enemy to rejoice over thee, he hath set up the horn of thine adversaries.