Quotes About Conflict

You make us contend with our neighbors; our enemies mock us.

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

saying, “Come, let us erase them as a nation; may the name of Israel be remembered no more.”

For with one mind they plot together, they form an alliance against You—

the tents of Edom and the Ishmaelites, of Moab and the Hagrites,

of Gebal, Ammon, and Amalek, of Philistia with the people of Tyre.

Even Assyria has joined them, lending strength to the sons of Lot. Selah

Do to them as You did to Midian, as to Sisera and Jabin at the River Kishon,

For wicked and deceitful mouths open against me; they speak against me with lying tongues.

They surround me with hateful words and attack me without cause.

Sharp arrows will come from the warrior, with burning coals of the broom tree!

Woe to me that I dwell in Meshech, that I live among the tents of Kedar!

Too long have I dwelt among those who hate peace.

I am in favor of peace; but when I speak, they want war.

I hate them with perfect hatred; I count them as my enemies.

who devise evil in their hearts and stir up war all day long.

May the heads of those who surround me be covered in the trouble their lips have caused.

then do this, my son, to free yourself, for you have fallen into your neighborís hands: Go, humble yourself, and press your plea with your neighbor.

With deceit in his heart he devises evil; he continually sows discord.

a false witness who gives false testimony, and one who stirs up discord among brothers.

For jealousy enrages a husband, and he will show no mercy in the day of vengeance.

Hatred stirs up dissension, but love covers all transgressions.

A foolís anger is known at once, but a prudent man overlooks an insult.

Arrogance leads only to strife, but wisdom is with the well-advised.