Foes

But if you will listen carefully to his voice and do everything I say, I will be an enemy to your enemies and a foe to your foes.

And concerning Judah he said: “O LORD, hear the cry of Judah and bring him to his people. With his own hands he defends his cause, but may You be a help against his foes.”

Bless his substance, O LORD, and accept the work of his hands. Smash the loins of those who rise against him, and of his foes so they can rise no more.”

He shot His arrows and scattered the foes; He hurled lightning and routed them.

He rescued me from my powerful enemy, from foes too mighty for me.

You have armed me with strength for battle; You have subdued my foes beneath me.

…who frees me from my enemies. You exalt me above my foes; You rescue me from violent men.

‘Surely our foes are destroyed, and fire has consumed their excess.’

A Psalm of David, when he fled from his son Absalom. O LORD, how my foes have increased! How many rise up against me!

My eyes fail from grief; they grow dim because of all my foes.

He is secure in his ways at all times; Your lofty judgments are far from him; he sneers at all his foes.

…lest my enemy say, “I have overcome him,” and my foes rejoice when I fall.

Show the wonders of Your loving devotion, You who save by Your right hand those who seek refuge from their foes.

He shot His arrows and scattered the foes; He hurled lightning and routed them.

He rescued me from my powerful enemy, from foes too mighty for me.

You have armed me with strength for battle; You have subdued my foes beneath me.

…who delivers me from my enemies. You exalt me above my foes; You rescue me from violent men.

When the wicked came upon me to devour my flesh, my enemies and foes stumbled and fell.

Do not hand me over to the will of my foes, for false witnesses rise up against me, breathing out violence.

A Psalm. A song for the dedication of the temple. Of David. I will exalt You, O LORD, for You have lifted me up and have not allowed my foes to rejoice over me.

The LORD will protect and preserve him; He will bless him in the land and refuse to give him over to the will of his foes.

Through You we repel our foes; through Your name we trample our enemies.

Your arrows pierce the hearts of the king’s foes; the nations fall beneath your feet.

For He has delivered me from every trouble, and my eyes have looked in triumph on my foes.

My God of loving devotion will come to meet me; God will let me stare down my foes.

…that your foot may be dipped in the blood of your foes—the tongues of your dogs in the same.”

Rescue me from the mire and do not let me sink; deliver me from my foes and out of the deep waters.

Draw near to my soul and redeem me; ransom me because of my foes.

Your foes have roared within Your meeting place; they have unfurled their banners as signs,

He beat back His foes; He put them to everlasting shame.

…how soon I would subdue their enemies and turn My hand against their foes!

See how Your enemies rage, how Your foes have reared their heads.

I will crush his foes before him and strike down those who hate him.

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

My eyes see the downfall of my enemies; my ears hear the wailing of my wicked foes.

Fire goes before Him and consumes His foes on every side.

And the LORD made His people very fruitful, more numerous than their foes,

The waters covered their foes; not one of them remained.

His heart is assured; he does not fear, until he looks in triumph on his foes.

My zeal has consumed me because my foes forget Your words.

Though my persecutors and foes are many, I have not turned from Your testimonies.

If I walk in the midst of trouble, You preserve me from the anger of my foes; You extend Your hand, and Your right hand saves me.

Therefore the Lord GOD of Hosts, the Mighty One of Israel, declares: “Ah, I will be relieved of My foes and avenge Myself on My enemies.

The LORD has raised up the foes of Rezin against him and joined his enemies together.

But your many foes will be like fine dust, the multitude of the ruthless like blowing chaff. Then suddenly, in an instant,

So He will repay according to their deeds: fury to His enemies, retribution to His foes, and recompense to the islands.

For that day belongs to the Lord GOD of Hosts, a day of vengeance against His foes. The sword will devour until it is satisfied, until it is quenched with their blood. For the Lord GOD of Hosts will hold a sacrifice in the land of the north by the River Euphrates.

So I will shatter Elam before their foes, before those who seek their lives. I will bring disaster upon them, even My fierce anger,” declares the LORD. “I will send out the sword after them until I finish them off.

Her foes have become her masters; her enemies are at ease. For the LORD has brought her grief because of her many transgressions. Her children have gone away as captives before the enemy.

Zion stretches out her hands, but there is no one to comfort her. The LORD has decreed against Jacob that his neighbors become his foes. Jerusalem has become an unclean thing among them.

The LORD has done what He planned; He has accomplished His decree, which He ordained in days of old; He has overthrown you without pity. He has let the enemy gloat over you and exalted the horn of your foes.

Your hand will be lifted over your foes, and all your enemies will be cut off.

The LORD is a jealous and avenging God; the LORD is avenging and full of wrath. The LORD takes vengeance on His foes and reserves wrath for His enemies.