'Foe' in the Bible

But if you will carefully obey him and do everything I say, then I will be an enemy to your enemies and a foe to your foes.

Edom will be a conquered nation and Seir will be Israel's defeated foe, while Israel performs valiantly.

Had I not feared the provocation of the enemy,That their adversaries would misjudge,That they would say, “Our [own] hand has prevailed,And the Lord has not done all this.”’

‘I will make My arrows drunk with blood,And My sword will devour flesh,With the blood of the slain and the captives,From the heads of the leaders of the enemy.’

“The torrent Kishon swept the enemy away,The ancient torrent, the torrent Kishon.O my soul, march on with strength.

Esther said, “A foe and an enemy is this wicked Haman!” Then Haman became terrified before the king and queen.

His wrath has torn, and he has been hostile toward me; he gnashed at me with his teeth. My foe sharpens his eyes against me.

{Surely} our foe perishes, and fire has consumed their remainder.

So that my enemy will not tear me like a lion,Dragging me away while there is no one to rescue [me].

Out of the mouths of infants and nursing babies you have established strength on account of your adversaries, in order to silence the enemy and vengeful foe.

He says to himself, “God has [quite] forgotten;He has hidden His face; He will never see my deed.”

Let destruction come upon my enemy by surprise;Let the net he hid for me catch him;Into that very destruction let him fall.

You make us retreat from the foe,and those who hate ushave taken plunder for themselves.

Now it is not an enemy who insults me—otherwise I could bear it;it is not a foe who rises up against me—otherwise I could hide from him.

Give us aid against the foe,for human help is worthless.

That your foot may crush them in blood,That the tongue of your dogs may have its share from your enemies.”

Turn your footsteps [quickly] toward the perpetual ruins;The enemy has damaged everything within the sanctuary.

God, how long will the enemy mock?Will the foe insult Your name forever?

They did not remember His power shownon the day He redeemed them from the foe,

He gave up His strength to captivityand His splendor to the hand of a foe.

He who dwells in the shelter of the Most HighWill remain secure and rest in the shadow of the Almighty [whose power no enemy can withstand].

He delivered them from the power of their foe; redeeming them from the power of their enemy.

Let the redeemed of the Lord proclaimthat He has redeemed them from the hand of the foe

Give us aid against the foe,for human help is worthless.

Flash Your lightning and scatter the foe;shoot Your arrows and rout them.

In that day the Lord will whistle for the fly that is in the mouth of the rivers and canals of Egypt and for the bee that is in the land of Assyria.

They set the table [for the doomed banquet], they spread out the cloth, they eat, they drink;“Rise up, captains [of Belshazzar’s court], oil your shields [for battle, for your enemy is at the gates]!”

“I have no wrath.Should anyone give Me briars and thorns in battle,I would step on them, I would set them all on fire.

“Moreover, the men of Memphis and Tahpanhes [as powerful enemies]Have shaved the crown of your head [to degrade you].

All your lovers have forgotten you; they don't seek you. Indeed, I've struck you down with the blow of an enemy, with the punishment of a cruel foe because your wickedness is great, and your sins are numerous.

See the siege ramps [of mounded earth that the enemy has built against the walls]; they have come up to the city to capture it. And the city is given into the hand of the Chaldeans [of Babylon] who fight against it, because of the sword, the famine and the virulent disease [that have overcome the people]. What You have spoken has come to pass, and behold, You see it.

Her foes have become [her] {master}, her enemies are at ease; Yahweh has made her suffer because of the greatness of her transgressions. Her children have gone away, captive before the foe.

(Dalet) He prepared his bow like an enemy; his right hand was ready to shoot. Like a foe he killed everyone, even our strong young men; he has poured out his anger like fire on the tent of Daughter Zion.

(Lamed) Neither the kings of the earth nor the people of the lands ever thought that enemy or foe would enter the gates of Jerusalem.

For a [pagan and hostile] nation has invaded My land [like locusts],Mighty and without number;Its teeth are the teeth of a lion,And it has the fangs of a lioness.

Therefore, thus says my Lord Yahweh, "A foe shall surround the land and bring down your strongholds, and your citadel fortresses shall be plundered."

said, "You who are full of every kind of craftiness and unscrupulous cunning--you son of the Devil and foe to all that is right--will you never cease to misrepresent the straight paths of the Lord?

What then shall we say to all these things? If God is for us, who can be [successful] against us?