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So the LORD brought against them the military commanders of the king of Assyria, who captured Manasseh, put a hook in his nose, bound him with bronze shackles, and took him to Babylon.

Then the servants of Amon conspired against him and killed him in his palace.

But the people of the land killed all those who had conspired against King Amon, and they made his son Josiah king in his place.

…because your heart was tender and you humbled yourself before God when you heard His words against this place and against its people, and because you have humbled yourself before Me and have torn your clothes and wept before Me, I have heard you,’ declares the LORD.

…because your heart was tender and you humbled yourself before God when you heard His words against this place and against its people, and because you have humbled yourself before Me and have torn your clothes and wept before Me, I have heard you,’ declares the LORD.

But Neco sent messengers to him, saying, “What is the issue between you and me, O king of Judah? I have not come against you today, but I am fighting another dynasty, and God has told me to hurry. So stop opposing God, who is with me, or He will destroy you!”

Then Nebuchadnezzar king of Babylon came up against Jehoiakim and bound him with bronze shackles to take him to Babylon.

As for the rest of the acts of Jehoiakim, the abominations he committed, and all that was found against him, they are indeed written in the Book of the Kings of Israel and Judah. And his son Jehoiachin reigned in his place.

He also rebelled against King Nebuchadnezzar, who had made him swear by God. But Zedekiah stiffened his neck and hardened his heart against turning to the LORD, the God of Israel.

He also rebelled against King Nebuchadnezzar, who had made him swear by God. But Zedekiah stiffened his neck and hardened his heart against turning to the LORD, the God of Israel.

But they mocked the messengers of God, despising His words and scoffing at His prophets, until the wrath of the LORD against His people was stirred up beyond remedy.

So He brought up against them the king of the Chaldeans, who put their young men to the sword in the sanctuary, sparing neither young men nor young women, neither elderly nor infirm. God gave them all into the hand of Nebuchadnezzar,

They hired counselors against them to frustrate their plans throughout the reign of Cyrus king of Persia and down to the reign of Darius king of Persia.

At the beginning of the reign of Xerxes, an accusation was lodged against the people of Judah and Jerusalem.

Rehum the commander and Shimshai the scribe wrote the letter against Jerusalem to King Artaxerxes as follows:

I issued a decree, and a search was conducted. It was discovered that this city has revolted against kings from ancient times, engaging in rebellion and sedition.

If anyone does not keep the law of your God and the law of the king, let a strict judgment be executed against him, whether death, banishment, confiscation of property, or imprisonment.

For I was ashamed to ask the king for an escort of soldiers and horsemen to protect us from our enemies on the road, since we had told him, “The hand of our God is gracious to all who seek Him, but His great anger is against all who forsake Him.”

…let Your eyes be open and Your ears attentive to hear the prayer that I, Your servant, now pray before You day and night for Your servants, the Israelites. I confess the sins that we Israelites have committed against You. Both I and my father’s house have sinned.

We have behaved corruptly against You and have not kept the commandments, statutes, and ordinances that You gave Your servant Moses.

But when Sanballat the Horonite, Tobiah the Ammonite official, and Geshem the Arab heard about this, they mocked us and ridiculed us, saying, “What is this you are doing? Are you rebelling against the king?”

…and all of them conspired to come and fight against Jerusalem and create a hindrance.

So we prayed to our God and posted a guard against them day and night.

About that time there was a great outcry from the people and their wives against their fellow Jews.

…and after serious thought I rebuked the nobles and officials, saying, “You are exacting usury from your own brothers!” So I called a large assembly against them

I realized that God had not sent him, but that he had uttered this prophecy against me because Tobiah and Sanballat had hired him.

You performed signs and wonders against Pharaoh, all his officials, and all the people of his land, for You knew they had acted with arrogance against our fathers. You made a name for Yourself that endures to this day.

You performed signs and wonders against Pharaoh, all his officials, and all the people of his land, for You knew they had acted with arrogance against our fathers. You made a name for Yourself that endures to this day.

But they were disobedient and rebelled against You; they flung Your law behind their backs. They killed Your prophets, who had admonished them to return to You. They committed terrible blasphemies.

You admonished them to turn back to Your law, but they were arrogant and disobeyed Your commandments. They sinned against Your ordinances, by which a man will live if he practices them. They turned a stubborn shoulder; they stiffened their necks and would not obey.

…because they had not met the Israelites with food and water, but had hired Balaam to call down a curse against them (although our God had turned the curse into a blessing).

In those days I saw people in Judah treading winepresses on the Sabbath and bringing in grain and loading it on donkeys, along with wine, grapes, and figs. All kinds of goods were being brought into Jerusalem on the Sabbath day. So I warned them against selling food on that day.

Did not your forefathers do the same things, so that our God brought all this disaster on us and on this city? And now you are rekindling His wrath against Israel by profaning the Sabbath!”

Must we now hear that you too are doing all this terrible evil and acting unfaithfully against our God by marrying foreign women?”

Some time later, when the anger of King Xerxes had subsided, he remembered Vashti and what she had done, and what had been decreed against her.

“Go and assemble all the Jews who can be found in Susa, and fast for me. Do not eat or drink for three days, night or day, and I and my maidens will fast as you do. After that, I will go to the king, even though it is against the law. And if I perish, I perish!”

Haman told his wife Zeresh and all his friends everything that had happened. His advisers and his wife Zeresh said to him, “Since Mordecai, before whom your downfall has begun, is Jewish, you will not prevail against him—for surely you will fall before him.”

And once again, Esther addressed the king. She fell at his feet weeping and begged him to revoke the evil scheme of Haman the Agagite, which he had devised against the Jews.

For Haman son of Hammedatha, the Agagite, the enemy of all the Jews, had plotted against the Jews to destroy them and had cast the Pur (that is, the lot) to crush and destroy them.

But when it came before the king, he commanded by letter that the wicked scheme which Haman had devised against the Jews should come back upon his own head, and that he and his sons should be hanged on the gallows.

Then the LORD said to Satan, “Have you considered My servant Job? For there is no one on earth like him, a man who is blameless and upright, who fears God and shuns evil. He still retains his integrity, even though you incited Me against him to ruin him without cause.”

For the arrows of the Almighty have pierced me; my spirit drinks in their poison; the terrors of God are arrayed against me.

When your children sinned against Him, He gave them over to their rebellion.

How then can I answer Him or choose my arguments against Him?

Should I hold my head high, You would hunt me like a lion, and again display Your power against me.

You produce new witnesses against me and multiply Your anger toward me. Hardships assault me in wave after wave.

But if only God would speak and open His lips against you,

For You record bitter accusations against me and bequeath to me the iniquities of my youth.

Your own mouth, not mine, condemns you; your own lips testify against you.

…so that you turn your spirit against God and pour such words from your mouth?

For he has stretched out his hand against God and has vaunted himself against the Almighty,

For he has stretched out his hand against God and has vaunted himself against the Almighty,

I could also speak like you if you were in my place; I could heap up words against you and shake my head at you.

You have bound me, and it has become a witness; my frailty rises up and testifies against me.

They open their mouths against me and strike my cheeks with contempt; they join together against me.

They open their mouths against me and strike my cheeks with contempt; they join together against me.

The upright are appalled at this, and the innocent are stirred against the godless.

If indeed you would exalt yourselves above me and use my disgrace against me,

His anger burns against me, and He counts me among His enemies.

His troops advance together; they construct a ramp against me and encamp around my tent.

All my best friends despise me, and those I love have turned against me.

The heavens will expose his iniquity, and the earth will rise up against him.

Is my complaint against a man? Then why should I not be impatient?

Is it for your reverence that He rebukes you and enters into judgment against you?

For He carries out His decree against me, and He has many such plans.

Without clothing, they spend the night naked; they have no covering against the cold.

Drenched by mountain rains, they huddle against the rocks for want of shelter.

Then there are those who rebel against the light, not knowing its ways or staying on its paths.

It hurls itself against him without mercy as he flees headlong from its power.

The rabble arises at my right; they lay snares for my feet and build siege ramps against me.

Terrors are turned loose against me; they drive away my dignity as by the wind, and my prosperity has passed like a cloud.

Yet no one stretches out his hand against a ruined man when he cries for help in his distress.

If I have rejected the cause of my manservant or maidservant when they made a complaint against me,

…if I have lifted up my hand against the fatherless because I saw that I had support in the gate,

…if my land cries out against me and its furrows weep together,

This kindled the anger of Elihu son of Barachel the Buzite, of the family of Ram. He burned with anger against Job for justifying himself rather than God,

…and he burned with anger against Job’s three friends because they had failed to refute Job, and yet had condemned him.

But Job has not directed his words against me, and I will not answer him with your arguments.

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

For he adds rebellion to his sin; he claps his hands among us and multiplies his words against God.”

If you sin, what do you accomplish against Him? If you multiply your transgressions, what do you do to Him?

He is the foremost of God’s works; only his Maker can draw the sword against him.

No one is so fierce as to rouse Leviathan. Then who is able to stand against Me?

After the LORD had spoken these words to Job, He said to Eliphaz the Temanite, “My wrath is kindled against you and your two friends. For you have not spoken about Me accurately, as My servant Job has.

The kings of the earth take their stand and the rulers gather together, against the LORD and against His Anointed One:

The kings of the earth take their stand and the rulers gather together, against the LORD and against His Anointed One:

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

I will not fear the myriads set against me on every side.

Declare them guilty, O God; let them fall by their own devices. Drive them out for their many transgressions, for they have rebelled against You.

Arise, O LORD, in Your anger; rise up against the fury of my enemies. Awake, my God, and ordain judgment.

…who lends his money without interest and refuses a bribe against the innocent. He who does these things will never be shaken.

They open their jaws against me like lions that roar and maul.

Though an army encamps around me, my heart will not fear; though a war breaks out against me, I will keep my trust.

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

For I hear the slander of many; there is terror on every side. They conspire against me and plot to take my life.

May lying lips be silenced—lips that speak with arrogance against the righteous, full of pride and contempt.

Blessed is the man whose iniquity the LORD does not count against him, in whose spirit there is no deceit.

But the face of the LORD is against those who do evil, to wipe out all memory of them from the earth.

Of David. Contend with my opponents, O LORD; fight against those who fight against me.

Of David. Contend with my opponents, O LORD; fight against those who fight against me.