'Adversaries' in the Bible
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;