'Enemy' in the Bible
Let the enemy pursue my soul, and overtake it; Yea, let him tread my life down to the earth, And lay my glory in the dust. Selah
Out of the mouth of babes and sucklings hast thou established strength, Because of thine adversaries, That thou mightest still the enemy and the avenger.
The enemy are come to an end, they are desolate for ever; And the cities which thou hast overthrown, The very remembrance of them is perished.
How long shall I take counsel in my soul, Having sorrow in my heart all the day? How long shall mine enemy be exalted over me?
Lest mine enemy say, I have prevailed against him; Lest mine adversaries rejoice when I am moved.
He delivered me from my strong enemy, And from them that hated me; for they were too mighty for me.
And thou hast not shut me up into the hand of the enemy; Thou hast set my feet in a large place.
By this I know that thou delightest in me, Because mine enemy doth not triumph over me.
I will say unto God my rock, Why hast thou forgotten me? Why go I mourning because of the oppression of the enemy?
For thou art the God of my strength; why hast thou cast me off? Why go I mourning because of the oppression of the enemy?
For the voice of him that reproacheth and blasphemeth, By reason of the enemy and the avenger.
Because of the voice of the enemy, Because of the oppression of the wicked; For they cast iniquity upon me, And in anger they persecute me.
For it was not an enemy that reproached me; Then I could have borne it: Neither was it he that hated me that did magnify himself against me; Then I would have hid myself from him:
For thou hast been a refuge for me, A strong tower from the enemy.
Hear my voice, O God, in my complaint: Preserve my life from fear of the enemy.
Lift up thy feet unto the perpetual ruins, All the evil that the enemy hath done in the sanctuary.
How long, O God, shall the adversary reproach? Shall the enemy blaspheme thy name for ever?
Remember this, that the enemy hath reproached, O Jehovah, And that a foolish people hath blasphemed thy name.
The enemy shall not exact from him, Nor the son of wickedness afflict him.
And he saved them from the hand of him that hated them, And redeemed them from the hand of the enemy.
For the enemy hath persecuted my soul; He hath smitten my life down to the ground: He hath made me to dwell in dark places, as those that have been long dead.