Psalms 25:19
Consider my enemies, for they are many, and they hate me with vicious hatred.
BSB
ASV
Consider mine enemies, for they are many; And they hate me with cruel hatred.
KJV
Consider mine enemies; for they are many; and they hate me with cruel hatred.
Consider mine enemies,.... Or "look" (m) upon them; but with another kind of look; so as he looked through the pillar of fire upon the Egyptians, and troubled them, Exo 14:24; with a look of wrath and vengeance.
Consider mine enemies. Watch them, weigh them, check them, defeat them. For they are many. They need the eyes of Argus to watch them, and the arms of Hercules to match them, but the Lord is more than sufficient to defeat them. The devils of hell and the evils of earth are all vanquished when the Lord makes bare his arm. They hate me with cruel hatred. It is the breath of the serpent's seed to hate; their progenitor was a hater, and they themselves must needs imitate him. No hate so cruel as that which is unreasonable and unjust.
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Psalms 143:3For the enemy has pursued my soul, crushing my life to the ground, making me dwell in darkness like those long since dead.
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He has made me dwell in darkness like those dead for ages.
O LORD my God, I take refuge in You; save me and deliver me from all my pursuers,
then may my enemy pursue me and overtake me; may he trample me to the ground and leave my honor in the dust. Selah
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Psalms 27:12Do not hand me over to the will of my foes, for false witnesses rise up against me, breathing out violence.
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Now the chief priests and the whole Sanhedrin were seeking false testimony against Jesus in order to put Him to death.
You have not delivered me to the enemy; You have set my feet in the open.
By this I know that You delight in me, for my enemy does not triumph over me.
Hostile witnesses come forward; they make charges I know nothing about.
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Psalms 140:4Guard me, O LORD, from the hands of the wicked. Keep me safe from men of violence who scheme to make me stumble.
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Let not the foot of the proud come against me, nor the hand of the wicked drive me away.
