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

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

…how soon I would subdue their enemies and turn My hand against their foes!

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

You crushed Rahab like a carcass; You scattered Your enemies with Your mighty arm.

No enemy will exact tribute; no wicked man will oppress him.

You have exalted the right hand of his foes; You have made all his enemies rejoice.

…how Your enemies have taunted, O LORD, and have mocked every step of Your anointed one!

For surely Your enemies, O LORD, surely Your enemies will perish; all evildoers will be scattered.

All day long my enemies taunt me; they ridicule me and curse me.

He saved them from the hand that hated them; He redeemed them from the hand of the enemy.

Their enemies oppressed them and subdued them under their hand.

A Psalm of David. The LORD said to my Lord: “Sit at My right hand until I make Your enemies a footstool for Your feet.”

The LORD extends Your mighty scepter from Zion: “Rule in the midst of Your enemies.”

Your commandments make me wiser than my enemies, for they are always with me.

Blessed is the man whose quiver is full of them. He will not be put to shame when he confronts the enemies at the gate.

I will clothe his enemies with shame, but the crown upon him will gleam.”

If I walk in the midst of trouble, You preserve me from the anger of my foes; You extend Your hand, and Your right hand saves me.

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

For the enemy has pursued my soul, crushing my life to the ground, making me dwell in darkness like those long since dead.

Deliver me from my enemies, O LORD; I flee to You for refuge.

And in Your loving devotion, cut off my enemies. Destroy all who afflict me, for I am Your servant.

When a man’s ways please the LORD, He makes even the man’s enemies live at peace with him.

Do not gloat when your enemy falls, and do not let your heart rejoice when he stumbles,

Therefore the Lord GOD of Hosts, the Mighty One of Israel, declares: “Ah, I will be relieved of My foes and avenge Myself on My enemies.

The LORD has raised up the foes of Rezin against him and joined his enemies together.

The LORD goes forth like a mighty one; He stirs up His zeal like a warrior. He shouts; yes, He roars in triumph over His enemies:

So He will repay according to their deeds: fury to His enemies, retribution to His foes, and recompense to the islands.

The LORD has sworn by His right hand and by His mighty arm: “Never again will I give your grain to your enemies for food, nor will foreigners drink the new wine for which you have toiled.

But they rebelled and grieved His Holy Spirit. So He turned and became their enemy, and He Himself fought against them.

Hear the uproar from the city; listen to the voice from the temple! It is the voice of the LORD, repaying His enemies what they deserve!

When you see, you will rejoice, and you will flourish like grass; then the hand of the LORD will be revealed to His servants, but His wrath will be shown to His enemies.

Do not go out to the fields; do not walk the road. For the enemy has a sword; terror is on every side.

I have forsaken My house; I have abandoned My inheritance. I have given the beloved of My soul into the hands of her enemies.

The mother of seven will grow faint; she will breathe her last breath. Her sun will set while it is still day; she will be disgraced and humiliated. And the rest I will put to the sword in the presence of their enemies,” declares the LORD.

The LORD said: “Surely I will deliver you for a good purpose; surely I will intercede with your enemy in your time of trouble, in your time of distress.

Then I will enslave you to your enemies in a land you do not know, for My anger will kindle a fire that will burn against you.”

And you yourself will relinquish the inheritance that I gave you. I will enslave you to your enemies in a land that you do not know, for you have kindled My anger; it will burn forever.”

I will scatter them before the enemy like the east wind. I will show them My back and not My face in the day of their calamity.”

And in this place I will ruin the plans of Judah and Jerusalem. I will make them fall by the sword before their enemies, by the hands of those who seek their lives, and I will give their carcasses as food to the birds of the air and the beasts of the earth.

I will make them eat the flesh of their sons and daughters, and they will eat one another’s flesh in the siege and distress inflicted on them by their enemies who seek their lives.’

For this is what the LORD says: ‘I will make you a terror to yourself and to all your friends. They will fall by the sword of their enemies before your very eyes. And I will hand Judah over to the king of Babylon, and he will carry them away to Babylon and put them to the sword.

I will give away all the wealth of this city—all its products and valuables, and all the treasures of the kings of Judah—to their enemies. They will plunder them, seize them, and carry them off to Babylon.

‘After that,’ declares the LORD, ‘I will hand over Zedekiah king of Judah, his officers, and the people in this city who survive the plague and sword and famine, to Nebuchadnezzar king of Babylon and to their enemies who seek their lives. He will put them to the sword; he will not spare them or show pity or compassion.’

All your lovers have forgotten you; they no longer seek you, for I have struck you as an enemy would, with the discipline of someone cruel, because of your great iniquity and your numerous sins.

This is what the LORD says: “Keep your voice from weeping and your eyes from tears, for the reward for your work will come, declares the LORD. Then your children will return from the land of the enemy.

I will deliver into the hands of their enemies who seek their lives. Their corpses will become food for the birds of the air and the beasts of the earth.

And I will deliver Zedekiah king of Judah and his officials into the hands of their enemies who seek their lives, to the army of the king of Babylon that had withdrawn from you.

This is what the LORD says: Behold, I will deliver Pharaoh Hophra king of Egypt into the hands of his enemies who seek his life, just as I delivered Zedekiah king of Judah into the hand of Nebuchadnezzar king of Babylon, the enemy who was seeking his life.”