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The concept of adversaries is woven throughout the Scriptures, highlighting both human and supernatural opposition. Old Testament Context In the Old Testament, adversaries often appear as nations or individuals who oppose Israel, God's chosen people. These adversaries are frequently depicted as instruments of divine judgment or as entities that God ultimately overcomes to demonstrate His sovereignty and faithfulness to His covenant. 1. Human Adversaries: The Israelites faced numerous adversaries throughout their history, including the Egyptians, Canaanites, Philistines, and Babylonians. For example, in <a href="/exodus/23-22.htm">Exodus 23:22</a>, God promises protection against adversaries: "But if you will indeed obey My voice and do all that I say, then I will be an enemy to your enemies and a foe to your foes." 2. Spiritual Adversaries: The Old Testament also introduces the concept of spiritual adversaries, most notably Satan. In <a href="/1_chronicles/21.htm">1 Chronicles 21:1</a>, Satan is described as an adversary who incites David to take a census of Israel: "Then Satan rose up against Israel and incited David to take a census of Israel." New Testament Context The New Testament expands on the theme of adversaries, emphasizing the spiritual battle between believers and the forces of evil. The apostle Paul frequently addresses the reality of spiritual adversaries and the need for believers to be vigilant and equipped for spiritual warfare. 1. Satan and Demonic Forces: Satan is portrayed as the ultimate adversary of God and His people. In <a href="/1_peter/5-8.htm">1 Peter 5:8</a>, believers are warned: "Be sober-minded and alert. Your adversary the devil prowls around like a roaring lion, seeking someone to devour." 2. Worldly Opposition: The New Testament also acknowledges the presence of human adversaries who oppose the spread of the Gospel. Jesus Himself warned His disciples of such opposition in <a href="/john/15-18.htm">John 15:18-19</a>: "If the world hates you, understand that it hated Me first. If you were of the world, it would love you as its own. Instead, the world hates you, because you are not of the world, but I have chosen you out of the world." Spiritual Warfare and the Believer's Response Believers are called to recognize and resist their adversaries through spiritual means. <a href="/ephesians/6-11.htm">Ephesians 6:11-12</a> instructs Christians to "Put on the full armor of God, so that you can make your stand against the devil’s schemes. For our struggle is not against flesh and blood, but against the rulers, against the authorities, against the powers of this world’s darkness, and against the spiritual forces of evil in the heavenly realms." Prayer, faith, and adherence to God's Word are essential tools in combating adversaries. <a href="/james/4-7.htm">James 4:7</a> encourages believers to "Submit yourselves, then, to God. Resist the devil, and he will flee from you." God's Sovereignty Over Adversaries Throughout Scripture, God is depicted as sovereign over all adversaries, whether human or spiritual. He uses them to fulfill His purposes and ultimately brings about their defeat. <a href="/romans/8-31.htm">Romans 8:31</a> reassures believers of God's power over adversaries: "What then shall we say in response to these things? If God is for us, who can be against us?" The biblical narrative consistently affirms that while adversaries may pose challenges, they cannot thwart God's ultimate plan for redemption and the establishment of His kingdom.<a name="web" id="web"></a><div class="vheading2">Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary</div>(n.) Plural of Adversary.<a name="grk" id="grk"></a><div class="vheading2">Greek</div><a href="/greek/480.htm">480. antikeimai -- to lie opposite, ie oppose, withstand</a> ... Word Origin from anti and keimai Definition to lie opposite, ie oppose, withstand NASB Word Usage adversaries (1), contrary (1), enemy (1), opponents (3 ... //strongsnumbers.com/greek2/480.htm - 7k<a href="/greek/5227.htm">5227. hupenantios -- set over against, opposite</a> ... Word Origin from hupo and enantios Definition set over against, opposite NASB Word Usage adversaries (1), hostile (1). adversary, against. ... //strongsnumbers.com/greek2/5227.htm - 6k<a name="heb" id="heb"></a><div class="vheading2">Strong's Hebrew</div><a href="/hebrew/6887c.htm">6887c. tsarar -- to show hostility toward, vex</a> ... 6887b, 6887c. tsarar. 6887d . to show hostility toward, vex. Transliteration: tsarar Short Definition: adversaries. Word Origin a prim. ... /hebrew/6887c.htm - 5k <a href="/hebrew/6146.htm">6146. ar -- foe</a> ... 6145, 6146. ar. 6147 . foe. Transliteration: ar Phonetic Spelling: (awr) Short Definition: adversaries. Word Origin (Aramaic) corresponding ... /hebrew/6146.htm - 6k <a href="/hebrew/6862c.htm">6862c. tsar -- adversary, foe</a> ... 6862b, 6862c. tsar. 6862d . adversary, foe. Transliteration: tsar Short Definition: adversaries. Word Origin from tsarar Definition ... /hebrew/6862c.htm - 5k <a href="/hebrew/7009.htm">7009. qim -- adversary</a> ... 7008, 7009. qim. 7010 . adversary. Transliteration: qim Phonetic Spelling: (keem) Short Definition: adversaries. Word Origin from ... /hebrew/7009.htm - 6k <a href="/hebrew/7853.htm">7853. satan -- to be or act as adversary</a> ... denominative verb from satan Definition to be or act as adversary NASB Word Usage accuse (1), accusers (2), act as my accusers (1), adversaries (1), oppose (1 ... /hebrew/7853.htm - 6k<a name="lib" id="lib"></a><div class="vheading2">Library</div><a href="/library/augustine/city_of_god/chapter_1_of_the_adversaries_of.htm">Of the Adversaries of the Name of Christ, whom the Barbarians for ...</a> ... The City of God.Book I. Chapter 1."Of the Adversaries of the Name of Christ, Whom the Barbarians for Christ's Sake Spared When They Stormed the City. ... /.../augustine/city of god/chapter 1 of the adversaries of.htm<a href="/library/lactantius/of_the_manner_in_which_the_persecutors_died/chap_xliii_of_the_adversaries.htm">Of the Adversaries of God There Still Remained One...</a> ... XLIII. Of the adversaries of God there still remained one? Of the adversaries of God there still remained one, whose overthrow and end I am now to relate. ... /.../of the manner in which the persecutors died/chap xliii of the adversaries.htm<a href="/library/augustine/anti-pelagian_writings/chapter_42_the_adversaries_cannot_deny.htm">The Adversaries Cannot Deny Predestination to those Gifts of Grace ...</a> ... A Treatise on the gift of perseverance, Chapter 42."The Adversaries Cannot Deny Predestination to Those Gifts of Grace Which They Themselves Acknowledge, and ... /.../augustine/anti-pelagian writings/chapter 42 the adversaries cannot deny.htm<a href="/library/augustine/the_confessions_and_letters_of_st/chapter_xv_he_argues_against_adversaries.htm">He Argues against Adversaries Concerning the Heaven of Heavens.</a> ... Book XII. Chapter XV."He Argues Against Adversaries Concerning the Heaven of Heavens. 18. "Will you say that these things are ... /.../the confessions and letters of st/chapter xv he argues against adversaries.htm<a href="/library/bunyan/grace_abounding_to_the_chief_of_sinners/some_carriages_of_the_adversaries.htm">Some Carriages of the Adversaries of God's Truth with Me at the ...</a> ... Some Carriages of the Adversaries of God's Truth with me at the next Assizes, which was on the 19th of the first month, 1662. I ... /.../grace abounding to the chief of sinners/some carriages of the adversaries.htm<a href="/library/paley/evidences_of_christianity/section_ix_our_historical_scriptures.htm">Our Historical Scriptures were Attacked by the Early Adversaries ...</a> ... PART I. SECTION IX. Our historical Scriptures were attacked by the early adversaries of Christianity? Our historical Scriptures ... /.../paley/evidences of christianity/section ix our historical scriptures.htm<a href="/library/melanchthon/the_apology_of_the_augsburg_confession/part_7_reply_to_the.htm">Reply to the Arguments of the Adversaries.</a> ... Part 7 Reply to the Arguments of the Adversaries. Now, when the grounds of this case have been understood, namely, the distinction ... /.../melanchthon/the apology of the augsburg confession/part 7 reply to the.htm<a href="/library/gregory/gregory_of_nyssa_dogmatic_treatises_etc/chapter_xxxii_what_other_objection.htm">What Other Objection is Alleged by Our Adversaries? This...</a> ... IV."Apologetic Works. Chapter XXXII. What other objection is alleged by our adversaries? This? What other objection is alleged by our adversaries? ... /.../gregory of nyssa dogmatic treatises etc/chapter xxxii what other objection.htm<a href="/library/lactantius/the_divine_institutes/chap_iii_of_the_truth_of.htm">Of the Truth of the Christian Doctrine, and the Vanity of Its ...</a> ... Chap. III."Of the Truth of the Christian Doctrine, and the Vanity of Its Adversaries; And that Christ Was Not a Magician. The ... /.../lactantius/the divine institutes/chap iii of the truth of.htm<a href="/library/augustine/anti-pelagian_writings/chapter_11_vi_the_accusation_of.htm">The Accusation of Fate is Thrown Back Upon the Adversaries.</a> ... Book II. Chapter 11 [VI.]"The Accusation of Fate is Thrown Back Upon the Adversaries. But is it true, O children of pride, enemies ... /.../augustine/anti-pelagian writings/chapter 11 vi the accusation of.htm<a name="thes" id="thes"></a><div class="vheading2">Thesaurus</div><a href="/topical/a/adversaries.htm">Adversaries (93 Occurrences)</a> ...Adversaries (93 Occurrences). ... Luke 21:15 for I will give you a mouth and wisdom which all your adversaries will not be able to withstand or to contradict. ... /a/adversaries.htm - 34k<a href="/topical/f/foes.htm">Foes (95 Occurrences)</a> ... With his hands he contended for himself. You shall be a help against his adversaries." (See NIV). ... Yahweh, how my adversaries have increased! ... /f/foes.htm - 30k<a href="/topical/f/foe.htm">Foe (23 Occurrences)</a> ... Psalms 8:2 From the lips of babes and infants you have established strength, because of your adversaries, that you might silence the enemy and the avenger. ... /f/foe.htm - 12k<a href="/topical/d/dishonor.htm">Dishonor (47 Occurrences)</a> ... Psalms 69:19 You know my reproach, my shame, and my dishonor. My adversaries are all before you. ... Psalms 109:29 Let my adversaries be clothed with dishonor. ... /d/dishonor.htm - 19k<a href="/topical/a/avenge.htm">Avenge (27 Occurrences)</a> ... He will render vengeance to his adversaries, And will make expiation for his land, for his people. (WEB KJV JPS ASV DBY WBS YLT NAS RSV NIV). ... /a/avenge.htm - 17k<a href="/topical/s/shamed.htm">Shamed (91 Occurrences)</a> ... Luke 13:17 And when he had said these things, all his adversaries were ashamed: and all the people rejoiced for all the glorious things that were done by him. ... /s/shamed.htm - 33k<a href="/topical/v/vexation.htm">Vexation (36 Occurrences)</a> ... On the other hand, the Revised Version (British and American) has "vex" for "distress" (Deuteronomy 2:9, 19); "they that vex" for "the adversaries of" (Isaiah ... /v/vexation.htm - 18k<a href="/topical/k/kindleth.htm">Kindleth (9 Occurrences)</a> ... vineyard -- olive-yard. (YLT). Job 19:11 And He kindleth against me His anger, And reckoneth me to Him as His adversaries. (YLT). Job 41 ... /k/kindleth.htm - 9k<a href="/topical/g/givest.htm">Givest (31 Occurrences)</a> ... Nehemiah 9:27 and Thou givest them into the hand of their adversaries, and they distress them, and in the time of their distress they cry unto Thee, and Thou ... /g/givest.htm - 15k<a href="/topical/w/withstanders.htm">Withstanders (15 Occurrences)</a> ... (YLT). Psalms 44:5 By Thee our adversaries we do push, By Thy name tread down our withstanders, (YLT). Psalms 59:1 To the Overseer. -- 'Destroy not,' by David. ... /w/withstanders.htm - 10k<a name="res" id="res"></a><div class="vheading2">Resources</div><a href="https://www.gotquestions.org/how-did-Jeremiah-die.html">How did Jeremiah die? | GotQuestions.org</a> <a href="https://www.gotquestions.org/life-Solomon.html">Who was Solomon in the Bible? | GotQuestions.org</a> <a href="https://www.gotquestions.org/Zerubbabel-in-the-Bible.html">Who was Zerubbabel in the Bible? | GotQuestions.org</a> <a href="https://clyx.com/term/adversaries.htm">Adversaries: Dictionary and Thesaurus | Clyx.com</a> <a href="/concordance/">Bible Concordance</a> • <a href="/dictionary/">Bible Dictionary</a> • <a href="/encyclopedia/">Bible Encyclopedia</a> • <a href="/topical/">Topical Bible</a> • <a href="/thesaurus/">Bible Thesuarus</a></div></div><div id="centbox"><div class="padcent"><a name="cnc" id="cnc"></a><div class="vheading2">Concordance</div>Adversaries (93 Occurrences)<a href="/luke/13-17.htm">Luke 13:17</a> 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. (WEB KJV ASV WBS RSV)<a href="/luke/21-15.htm">Luke 21:15</a> for I will give you a mouth and wisdom which all your adversaries will not be able to withstand or to contradict. (WEB KJV ASV WBS RSV NIV)<a href="/1_corinthians/16-9.htm">1 Corinthians 16:9</a> for a great and effective door has opened to me, and there are many adversaries. (WEB KJV ASV DBY WBS NAS RSV)<a href="/philippians/1-28.htm">Philippians 1:28</a> and in nothing frightened by the adversaries, which is for them a proof of destruction, but to you of salvation, and that from God. (WEB KJV ASV WBS)<a href="/hebrews/10-27.htm">Hebrews 10:27</a> but a certain fearful expectation of judgment, and a fierceness of fire which will devour the adversaries. The Letter from James (WEB KJV ASV DBY WBS NAS RSV)<a href="/genesis/14-20.htm">Genesis 14:20</a> and blessed 'is' God Most High, who hath delivered thine adversaries into thy hand;' and he giveth to him a tenth of all. (YLT)<a href="/exodus/15-7.htm">Exodus 15:7</a> And by the greatness of thine excellency thou hast overthrown thine adversaries: Thou sentest forth thy burning wrath, it consumed them as stubble. (DBY RSV)<a href="/exodus/23-22.htm">Exodus 23:22</a> 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. (WEB KJV JPS ASV DBY WBS NAS RSV)<a href="/exodus/32-25.htm">Exodus 32:25</a> And Moses saw the people how they were stripped; for Aaron had stripped them to their shame before their adversaries. (DBY)<a href="/numbers/24-8.htm">Numbers 24:8</a> 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. (WEB JPS ASV YLT NAS RSV)<a href="/numbers/25-18.htm">Numbers 25:18</a> for they are adversaries to you with their frauds, 'with' which they have acted fraudulently to you, concerning the matter of Peor, and concerning the matter of Cozbi, daughter of a prince of Midian, their sister, who is smitten in the day of the plague for the matter of Peor.' (YLT)<a href="/deuteronomy/32-27.htm">Deuteronomy 32:27</a> 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.'" (WEB KJV JPS ASV DBY WBS YLT NAS RSV)<a href="/deuteronomy/32-41.htm">Deuteronomy 32:41</a> 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. (WEB JPS ASV DBY YLT NAS RSV NIV)<a href="/deuteronomy/32-43.htm">Deuteronomy 32:43</a> 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. (WEB KJV JPS ASV WBS YLT NAS RSV)<a href="/deuteronomy/33-7.htm">Deuteronomy 33:7</a> 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." (WEB JPS ASV YLT NAS RSV)<a href="/deuteronomy/33-11.htm">Deuteronomy 33:11</a> Bless, Jehovah, his substance! And let the work of his hands please thee; Crush the loins of his adversaries, And of them that hate him, that they may never rise again! (DBY RSV)<a href="/joshua/5-13.htm">Joshua 5:13</a> 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?" (WEB KJV JPS ASV WBS YLT NAS RSV)<a href="/judges/2-3.htm">Judges 2:3</a> So now I say, I will not drive them out before you; but they shall become adversaries to you, and their gods shall be a snare to you." (DBY YLT RSV)<a href="/1_samuel/2-10.htm">1 Samuel 2:10</a> The adversaries of the LORD shall be broken to pieces; out of heaven shall he thunder upon them: the LORD shall judge the ends of the earth; and he shall give strength unto his king, and exalt the horn of his anointed. (KJV WBS YLT RSV)<a href="/2_samuel/19-22.htm">2 Samuel 19:22</a> 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?" (WEB KJV JPS ASV DBY WBS NIV)<a href="/2_samuel/22-40.htm">2 Samuel 22:40</a> For you have armed me with strength for the battle. You have subdued under me those who rose up against me. (See NIV)<a href="/2_samuel/22-49.htm">2 Samuel 22:49</a> who brings me away from my enemies. Yes, you lift me up above those who rise up against me. You deliver me from the violent man. (See RSV)<a href="/2_samuel/24-13.htm">2 Samuel 24:13</a> And Gad came to David, and told him, and said to him, Shall seven years of famine come to thee in thy land? or wilt thou flee three months before thine adversaries while they pursue thee? or shall there be three days' pestilence in thy land? Now be aware and consider what word I shall bring again to him that sent me. (DBY)<a href="/1_chronicles/12-17.htm">1 Chronicles 12:17</a> 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, seeing there is no wrong in my hands, may the God of our fathers look thereon, and rebuke it." (WEB JPS ASV YLT NAS RSV)<a href="/1_chronicles/21-12.htm">1 Chronicles 21:12</a> Choose thee, either three years of famine, or three months to be destroyed before thine adversaries while that the sword of thine enemies overtaketh thee, or three days the sword of Jehovah and the pestilence in the land, and the angel of Jehovah destroying through all the borders of Israel. And now consider what word I shall bring again to him that sent me. (DBY YLT)<a href="/ezra/4-1.htm">Ezra 4:1</a> 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; (WEB KJV JPS ASV DBY WBS YLT RSV)<a href="/nehemiah/4-11.htm">Nehemiah 4:11</a> 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. (WEB KJV JPS ASV DBY WBS YLT)<a href="/nehemiah/9-27.htm">Nehemiah 9:27</a> Therefore you delivered them into the hand of their adversaries, who distressed them: and 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. (WEB JPS ASV YLT)<a href="/job/19-11.htm">Job 19:11</a> He has also kindled his wrath against me. He counts me among his adversaries. (WEB JPS ASV YLT)<a href="/job/22-20.htm">Job 22:20</a> saying,'Surely those who rose up against us are cut off. The fire has consumed the remnant of them.' cities which are not inhabited. (See NAS RSV)<a href="/job/27-7.htm">Job 27:7</a> "Let my enemy be as the wicked. Let him who rises up against me be as the unrighteous. (See NIV)<a href="/psalms/3-1.htm">Psalms 3:1</a> A Psalm by David, when he fled from Absalom his son. Yahweh, how my adversaries have increased! Many are those who rise up against me. (WEB ASV NAS)<a href="/psalms/6-7.htm">Psalms 6:7</a> My eye wastes away because of grief. It grows old because of all my adversaries. (WEB JPS ASV YLT NAS)<a href="/psalms/7-6.htm">Psalms 7:6</a> Arise, Yahweh, in your anger. Lift up yourself against the rage of my adversaries. Awake for me. You have commanded judgment. (WEB JPS ASV YLT NAS)<a href="/psalms/8-2.htm">Psalms 8:2</a> From the lips of babes and infants you have established strength, because of your adversaries, that you might silence the enemy and the avenger. (WEB JPS ASV DBY YLT NAS)<a href="/psalms/10-5.htm">Psalms 10:5</a> 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. (WEB JPS ASV DBY YLT NAS)<a href="/psalms/13-4.htm">Psalms 13:4</a> Lest my enemy say, "I have prevailed against him;" Lest my adversaries rejoice when I fall. (WEB JPS ASV DBY YLT NAS)<a href="/psalms/17-7.htm">Psalms 17:7</a> Show your marvelous loving kindness, you who save those who take refuge by your right hand from their enemies. (See RSV)<a href="/psalms/18-39.htm">Psalms 18:39</a> For you have girded me with strength to the battle. You have subdued under me those who rose up against me. (See NIV)<a href="/psalms/18-48.htm">Psalms 18:48</a> He rescues me from my enemies. Yes, you lift me up above those who rise up against me. You deliver me from the violent man. (See RSV)<a href="/psalms/23-5.htm">Psalms 23:5</a> Thou arrangest before me a table, Over-against my adversaries, Thou hast anointed with oil my head, My cup is full! (YLT)<a href="/psalms/27-2.htm">Psalms 27:2</a> When evildoers came at me to eat up my flesh, even my adversaries and my foes, they stumbled and fell. (WEB JPS ASV DBY YLT NAS RSV)<a href="/psalms/31-11.htm">Psalms 31:11</a> 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. (WEB JPS ASV YLT NAS RSV)<a href="/psalms/38-20.htm">Psalms 38:20</a> They who also render evil for good are adversaries to me, because I follow what is good. (WEB KJV JPS ASV DBY WBS RSV)<a href="/psalms/42-10.htm">Psalms 42:10</a> As with a sword in my bones, my adversaries reproach me, while they continually ask me, "Where is your God?" (WEB JPS ASV DBY YLT NAS RSV)<a href="/psalms/44-5.htm">Psalms 44:5</a> Through you, will we push down our adversaries. Through your name, will we tread them under who rise up against us. (WEB JPS ASV DBY YLT NAS)<a href="/psalms/44-7.htm">Psalms 44:7</a> But you have saved us from our adversaries, and have shamed those who hate us. (WEB JPS ASV DBY YLT NAS NIV)<a href="/psalms/44-10.htm">Psalms 44:10</a> Thou makest us to turn back from the adversary; and they that hate us spoil at their will. (See NIV)<a href="/psalms/59-10.htm">Psalms 59:10</a> My God with his lovingkindness will meet me: God will let me see my desire upon mine enemies. (See JPS)<a href="/psalms/60-12.htm">Psalms 60:12</a> Through God we shall do valiantly, for it is he who will tread down our adversaries. (WEB JPS ASV DBY YLT NAS)<a href="/psalms/69-19.htm">Psalms 69:19</a> You know my reproach, my shame, and my dishonor. My adversaries are all before you. (WEB KJV JPS ASV DBY WBS YLT NAS)<a href="/psalms/71-13.htm">Psalms 71:13</a> Let them be confounded and consumed that are adversaries to my soul; let them be covered with reproach and dishonour that seek my hurt. (KJV JPS ASV DBY WBS NAS)<a href="/psalms/74-4.htm">Psalms 74:4</a> Your adversaries have roared in the midst of your assembly. They have set up their standards as signs. (WEB JPS ASV DBY YLT NAS)<a href="/psalms/74-23.htm">Psalms 74:23</a> Don't forget the voice of your adversaries. The tumult of those who rise up against you ascends continually. (WEB JPS ASV DBY YLT NAS RSV NIV)<a href="/psalms/78-66.htm">Psalms 78:66</a> He struck his adversaries backward. He put them to a perpetual reproach. (WEB JPS ASV DBY YLT NAS RSV)<a href="/psalms/81-14.htm">Psalms 81:14</a> I would soon subdue their enemies, and turn my hand against their adversaries. (WEB KJV JPS ASV DBY WBS YLT NAS)<a href="/psalms/89-23.htm">Psalms 89:23</a> I will beat down his adversaries before him, and strike those who hate him. (WEB JPS ASV DBY YLT NAS NIV)<a href="/psalms/89-42.htm">Psalms 89:42</a> You have exalted the right hand of his adversaries. You have made all of his enemies rejoice. (WEB KJV JPS ASV WBS YLT NAS)<a href="/psalms/92-11.htm">Psalms 92:11</a> My eye has also seen my enemies. My ears have heard of the wicked enemies who rise up against me. (See NIV)<a href="/psalms/97-3.htm">Psalms 97:3</a> A fire goes before him, and burns up his adversaries on every side. (WEB JPS ASV DBY YLT NAS RSV)<a href="/psalms/105-24.htm">Psalms 105:24</a> He increased his people greatly, and made them stronger than their adversaries. (WEB JPS ASV YLT NAS)<a href="/psalms/106-11.htm">Psalms 106:11</a> The waters covered their adversaries. There was not one of them left. (WEB JPS ASV YLT NAS RSV NIV)<a href="/psalms/108-13.htm">Psalms 108:13</a> Through God we shall do valiantly: For he it is that will tread down our adversaries. (ASV DBY JPS YLT NAS)<a href="/psalms/109-4.htm">Psalms 109:4</a> In return for my love, they are my adversaries; but I am in prayer. (WEB KJV JPS ASV DBY WBS)<a href="/psalms/109-20.htm">Psalms 109:20</a> This is the reward of my adversaries from Yahweh, of those who speak evil against my soul. (WEB KJV JPS ASV DBY WBS)<a href="/psalms/109-29.htm">Psalms 109:29</a> Let my adversaries be clothed with dishonor. Let them cover themselves with their own shame as with a robe. (WEB KJV JPS ASV DBY WBS)<a href="/psalms/112-8.htm">Psalms 112:8</a> His heart is established. He will not be afraid in the end when he sees his adversaries. (WEB JPS ASV YLT NAS RSV)<a href="/psalms/119-139.htm">Psalms 119:139</a> My zeal hath consumed me, Because mine adversaries have forgotten thy words. (ASV JPS YLT NAS)<a href="/psalms/119-157.htm">Psalms 119:157</a> Many are my persecutors and my adversaries. I haven't swerved from your testimonies. (WEB JPS ASV YLT NAS RSV)<a href="/psalms/136-24.htm">Psalms 136:24</a> And has delivered us from our adversaries; for his loving kindness endures forever: (WEB JPS ASV YLT NAS)<a href="/psalms/139-20.htm">Psalms 139:20</a> For they go against you with evil designs, and your haters make sport of your name. (See NIV)<a href="/isaiah/1-24.htm">Isaiah 1:24</a> 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; (WEB KJV JPS ASV DBY WBS YLT NAS)<a href="/isaiah/9-11.htm">Isaiah 9:11</a> Therefore Yahweh will set up on high against him the adversaries of Rezin, and will stir up his enemies, (WEB KJV JPS ASV DBY WBS YLT NAS RSV)<a href="/isaiah/11-13.htm">Isaiah 11:13</a> The envy also of Ephraim shall depart, and the adversaries of Judah shall be cut off: Ephraim shall not envy Judah, and Judah shall not vex Ephraim. (KJV WBS YLT)<a href="/isaiah/26-11.htm">Isaiah 26:11</a> 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. (WEB JPS ASV DBY YLT RSV)<a href="/isaiah/59-18.htm">Isaiah 59:18</a> According to their deeds, accordingly he will repay, wrath to his adversaries, recompense to his enemies; to the islands he will repay recompense. (WEB KJV JPS ASV DBY WBS YLT NAS RSV)<a href="/isaiah/63-18.htm">Isaiah 63:18</a> Your holy people possessed it but a little while: our adversaries have trodden down your sanctuary. (WEB KJV JPS ASV DBY WBS YLT NAS RSV)<a href="/isaiah/64-2.htm">Isaiah 64:2</a> 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! (WEB KJV JPS ASV DBY WBS YLT NAS RSV)<a href="/jeremiah/30-16.htm">Jeremiah 30:16</a> 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. (WEB KJV JPS ASV DBY WBS YLT NAS)<a href="/jeremiah/46-10.htm">Jeremiah 46:10</a> 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. (WEB KJV JPS ASV DBY WBS YLT)<a href="/jeremiah/48-5.htm">Jeremiah 48:5</a> For the ascent of Luhith with weeping, Go up doth weeping, For in the descent of Horonaim Adversaries a cry of desolation have heard. (YLT)<a href="/jeremiah/50-7.htm">Jeremiah 50:7</a> 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. (WEB KJV JPS ASV DBY WBS YLT NAS)<a href="/lamentations/1-5.htm">Lamentations 1:5</a> 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. (WEB KJV JPS ASV DBY WBS YLT NAS)<a href="/lamentations/1-7.htm">Lamentations 1:7</a> 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. (WEB KJV JPS ASV DBY WBS YLT NAS)<a href="/lamentations/1-17.htm">Lamentations 1:17</a> 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. (WEB KJV JPS ASV DBY WBS YLT NAS)<a href="/lamentations/2-17.htm">Lamentations 2:17</a> 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. (WEB KJV JPS ASV DBY WBS YLT NAS)<a href="/ezekiel/30-16.htm">Ezekiel 30:16</a> 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. (WEB JPS ASV)<a href="/ezekiel/39-23.htm">Ezekiel 39:23</a> 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. (WEB JPS ASV YLT NAS RSV)<a href="/daniel/4-19.htm">Daniel 4:19</a> 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. (WEB JPS ASV NAS NIV)<a href="/amos/5-12.htm">Amos 5:12</a> For I have known -- many 'are' your transgressions, And mighty your sins, Adversaries of the righteous, taking ransoms, And the needy in the gate ye turned aside. (YLT)<a href="/micah/5-9.htm">Micah 5:9</a> Let your hand be lifted up above your adversaries, and let all of your enemies be cut off. (WEB KJV JPS ASV DBY WBS YLT NAS RSV)<a href="/nahum/1-2.htm">Nahum 1:2</a> 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. (WEB KJV JPS ASV DBY WBS YLT NAS RSV)<a href="/nahum/1-8.htm">Nahum 1:8</a> But with an overflowing flood, he will make a full end of her place, and will pursue his enemies into darkness. 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