'Adversaries' in the Bible

But if you indeed listen to his voice, and do all that I speak, then I will be an enemy to your enemies, and an adversary to your adversaries.

God brings him out of Egypt. He has as it were the strength of the wild ox. He shall eat up the nations his adversaries, shall break their bones in pieces, and pierce them with his arrows.

were it not that I feared the provocation of the enemy, lest their adversaries should judge wrongly, lest they should say, 'Our hand is exalted, Yahweh has not done all this.'"

if I whet my glittering sword, My hand take hold on judgment; I will render vengeance to my adversaries, and will recompense those who hate me.

Rejoice, you nations, [with] his people, for he will avenge the blood of his servants. He will render vengeance to his adversaries, And will make expiation for his land, for his people.

This is [the blessing] of Judah: and he said, "Hear, Yahweh, the voice of Judah. Bring him in to his people. With his hands he contended for himself. You shall be a help against his adversaries."

It happened, when Joshua was by Jericho, that he lifted up his eyes and looked, and behold, a man stood in front of him with his sword drawn in his hand. Joshua went to him, and said to him, "Are you for us, or for our adversaries?"

David said, "What have I to do with you, you sons of Zeruiah, that you should this day be adversaries to me? Shall there any man be put to death this day in Israel? For don't I know that I am this day king over Israel?"

David went out to meet them, and answered them, "If you have come peaceably to me to help me, my heart shall be knit to you; but if you have come to betray me to my adversaries, since there is no wrong in my hands, may 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 to Yahweh, the God of Israel;

Our adversaries said, "They shall not know, neither see, until we come into the midst of them, and kill them, and cause the work to cease."

Therefore you delivered them into the hand of their adversaries, who distressed them. In the time of their trouble, when they cried to you, you heard from heaven; and according to your manifold mercies you gave them saviors who saved them out of the hand of their adversaries.

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

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

My eye wastes away because of grief. It grows old because of all my adversaries.

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

From the lips of babes and infants you have established strength, because of your adversaries, that you might silence the enemy and the avenger.

His ways are prosperous at all times. He is haughty, and your laws are far from his sight. As for all his adversaries, he sneers at them.

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

When evildoers came at me to eat up my flesh, even my adversaries and my foes, they stumbled and fell.

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

Because of all my adversaries I have become utterly contemptible to my neighbors, A fear to my acquaintances. Those who saw me on the street fled from me.

They who also render evil for good are adversaries to me, because I follow what is good.

As with a sword in my bones, my adversaries reproach me, while they continually ask me, "Where is your God?"

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

But you have saved us from our adversaries, and have shamed those who hate us.

Through God we shall do valiantly, for it is he who will tread down our adversaries. For the Chief Musician. For a stringed instrument. By David.

You know my reproach, my shame, and my dishonor. My adversaries are all before you.

Your adversaries have roared in the midst of your assembly. They have set up their standards as signs.

Don't forget the voice of your adversaries. The tumult of those who rise up against you ascends continually. For the Chief Musician. To the tune of "Do Not Destroy." A Psalm by Asaph. A song.

He struck his adversaries backward. He put them to a perpetual reproach.

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

I will beat down his adversaries before him, and strike those who hate him.

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

A fire goes before him, and burns up his adversaries on every side.

He increased his people greatly, and made them stronger than their adversaries.

The waters covered their adversaries. There was not one of them left.

In return for my love, they are my adversaries; but I am in prayer.

This is the reward of my adversaries from Yahweh, of those who speak evil against my soul.

Let my adversaries be clothed with dishonor. Let them cover themselves with their own shame as with a robe.

His heart is established. He will not be afraid in the end when he sees his adversaries.

Many are my persecutors and my adversaries. I haven't swerved from your testimonies.

And has delivered us from our adversaries; for his loving kindness endures forever:

Therefore the Lord, Yahweh of Armies, the Mighty One of Israel, says: "Ah, I will get relief from my adversaries, and avenge myself of my enemies;

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

Yahweh, your hand is lifted up, yet they don't see; but they will see your zeal for the people, and be disappointed. Yes, fire will consume your adversaries.

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

Your holy people possessed [it] but a little while: our adversaries have trodden down your sanctuary.

as when fire kindles the brushwood, [and] the fire causes the waters to boil; to make your name known to your adversaries, that the nations may tremble at your presence!

Therefore all those who devour you shall be devoured; and all your adversaries, everyone of them, shall go into captivity; and those who despoil you shall be a spoil, and all who prey on you will I give for a prey.

For that day is [a day] of the Lord, Yahweh of Armies, 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, Yahweh of Armies, has a sacrifice in the north country by the river Euphrates.

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

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

Jerusalem remembers 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 spreads forth her hands; there is none to comfort her; Yahweh has commanded concerning Jacob, that those who are around him should be his adversaries: Jerusalem is among them as an unclean thing.

Yahweh has done that which he purposed; he has fulfilled his word that he commanded in the days of old; He has thrown down, and has not pitied: He has caused the enemy to rejoice over you; he has exalted the horn of your adversaries.

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 daytime.

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 mute for a while, and his thoughts troubled him. The king answered, Belteshazzar, don't let the dream, or the interpretation, trouble you. Belteshazzar answered, My lord, the dream be to those who hate you, and its interpretation to your adversaries.

Let your hand be lifted up above your adversaries, and let all of your enemies be cut off.

Yahweh is a jealous God and avenges. Yahweh avenges and is full of wrath. Yahweh takes vengeance on his adversaries, and he maintains wrath against his enemies.

As he said these things, all his adversaries were disappointed, 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 will not be able to withstand or to contradict.

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

and in nothing frightened by the adversaries, which is for them a proof of destruction, but to you of salvation, and that from God.

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