Quotes About Conflict

Yet God finds occasions against me; He counts me as His enemy.

Why do the nations rage and the peoples plot in vain?

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

if I have rewarded my ally with evil, if I have plundered my foe without cause,

May their path be dark and slick, as the angel of the LORD pursues.

Hostile witnesses come forward; they make charges I know nothing about.

For they do not speak peace, but they devise deceitful schemes against those who live quietly in the land.

The wicked scheme against the righteous and gnash their teeth at them,

Many are my enemies without cause, and many hate me without reason.

All who hate me whisper against me; they imagine the worst for me:

at the voice of the scorner and reviler, because of the enemy, bent on revenge.

For behold, the kings assembled; they all advanced together.

O Lord, confuse and confound their speech, for I see violence and strife in the city.

Day and night they encircle the walls, while malice and trouble lie within.

Destruction is within; oppression and deceit never leave the streets.

For it is not an enemy who insults me; that I could endure. It is not a foe who rises against me; from him I could hide.

My companion attacks his friends; he violates his covenant.

His speech is smooth as butter, but war is in his heart. His words are softer than oil, yet they are swords unsheathed.

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

All day long they twist my words; all their thoughts are on my demise.

who sharpen their tongues like swords and aim their bitter words like arrows,

They mock and speak with malice; with arrogance they threaten oppression.

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

like men wielding axes in a thicket of trees