'Enemy' in the Bible
let the enemy pursue my soul, and overtake it; yes, let him tread my life down to the earth, and lay my glory in the dust. Selah.
From the lips of babes and infants you have established strength, because of your adversaries, that you might silence the enemy and the avenger.
The enemy is overtaken by endless ruin. The very memory of the cities which you have overthrown has perished.
How long shall I take counsel in my soul, having sorrow in my heart every day? How long shall my enemy triumph over me?
Lest my enemy say, "I have prevailed against him;" Lest my adversaries rejoice when I fall.
He delivered me from my strong enemy, from those who hated me; for they were too mighty for me.
You have not shut me up into the hand of the enemy. You have set my feet in a large place.
By this I know that you delight in me, because my enemy doesn't triumph over me.
I will ask God, my rock, "Why have you forgotten me? Why do I go mourning because of the oppression of the enemy?"
For you are the God of my strength. Why have you rejected me? Why do I go mourning because of the oppression of the enemy?
At the taunt of one who reproaches and verbally abuses, because of the enemy and the avenger.
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.
For you have been a refuge for me, a strong tower from the enemy.
Hear my voice, God, in my complaint. Preserve my life from fear of the enemy.
Lift up your feet to the perpetual ruins, all the evil that the enemy has done in the sanctuary.
How long, God, shall the adversary reproach? Shall the enemy blaspheme your name forever?
Remember this, that the enemy has mocked you, Yahweh. Foolish people have blasphemed your name.
He saved them from the hand of him who hated them, and redeemed them from the hand of the enemy.
Give us help against the enemy, for the help of man is vain.
For the enemy pursues my soul. He has struck my life down to the ground. He has made me live in dark places, as those who have been long dead.