Quotes About Enemies

For You save us from our enemies; You put those who hate us to shame.

For the choirmaster. With stringed instruments. A Maskil of David. When the Ziphites went to Saul and said, “Is David not hiding among us?” Save me, O God, by Your name, and vindicate me by Your might!

For strangers rise up against me, and ruthless men seek my life—men with no regard for God. Selah

He will reward my enemies with evil. In Your faithfulness, destroy them.

For He has delivered me from every trouble, and my eyes have stared down my foes.

My enemies pursue me all day long, for many proudly assail me.

Then my enemies will retreat on the day I cry for help. By this I will know that God is on my side.

May they vanish like water that runs off; when they draw the bow, may their arrows be blunted.

For the choirmaster. To the tune of “Do Not Destroy.” A Miktam of David, when Saul sent men to watch Davidís house in order to kill him. Deliver me from my enemies, O my God; protect me from those who rise against me.

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

Do not kill them, or my people will forget. Scatter them by Your power, and bring them down, O Lord, our shield.

With God we will perform with valor, and He will trample our enemies.

They will fall to the power of the sword; they will become a portion for foxes.

But God will shoot them with arrows; suddenly they will be wounded.

Say to God, “How awesome are Your deeds! So great is Your power that Your enemies cower before You.

For the choirmaster. A Psalm of David. A song. God arises. His enemies are scattered, and those who hate Him flee His presence.

Surely God will crush the heads of His enemies, the hairy crowns of those who persist in guilty ways.

Those who hate me without cause outnumber the hairs of my head; many are those who would destroy me—my enemies for no reason. Though I did not steal, I must repay.

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

May those who seek my life be ashamed and confounded; may those who wish me harm be repelled and humiliated.

For my enemies speak against me, and those who lie in wait for my life conspire,

May the nomads bow before him, and his enemies lick the dust.

Do not disregard the clamor of Your adversaries, the uproar of Your enemies that ascends continually.

He led them safely, so they did not fear, but the sea engulfed their enemies.