Our persecutors are swifter than the eagles of the heaven: they pursued us upon the mountains, they laid wait for us in the wilderness.


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Jeremiah 20 11 But the LORD is with me as a mighty terrible one: therefore my persecutors shall stumble, and they shall not prevail: they shall be greatly ashamed; for they shall not prosper: their everlasting confusion shall never be forgotten.
Philippians 1 28 And in nothing terrified by your adversaries: which is to them an evident token of perdition, but to you of salvation, and that of God.
Psalms 35 6 Let their way be dark and slippery: and let the angel of the LORD persecute them.
Psalms 142 6 Attend unto my cry; for I am brought very low: deliver me from my persecutors; for they are stronger than I.
Proverbs 24 17 Rejoice not when thine enemy falleth, and let not thine heart be glad when he stumbleth:
2 Chronicles 20 12 O our God, wilt thou not judge them? for we have no might against this great company that cometh against us; neither know we what to do: but our eyes are upon thee.
Psalms 35 5 Let them be as chaff before the wind: and let the angel of the LORD chase them.
Micah 7 4 The best of them is as a brier: the most upright is sharper than a thorn hedge: the day of thy watchmen and thy visitation cometh; now shall be their perplexity.
Psalms 86 14 O God, the proud are risen against me, and the assemblies of violent men have sought after my soul; and have not set thee before them.
Nehemiah 4 4 Hear, O our God; for we are despised: and turn their reproach upon their own head, and give them for a prey in the land of captivity:
Proverbs 28 1 The wicked flee when no man pursueth: but the righteous are bold as a lion.
Lamentations 4 9 They that be slain with the sword are better than they that be slain with hunger: for these pine away, stricken through for want of the fruits of the field.
Psalms 35 15 But in mine adversity they rejoiced, and gathered themselves together: yea, the abjects gathered themselves together against me, and I knew it not; they did tear me, and ceased not:
Leviticus 26 7 And ye shall chase your enemies, and they shall fall before you by the sword.
Psalms 119 157 Many are my persecutors and mine enemies; yet do I not decline from thy testimonies.
Proverbs 28 28 When the wicked rise, men hide themselves: but when they perish, the righteous increase.
Genesis 49 6 O my soul, come not thou into their secret; unto their assembly, mine honour, be not thou united: for in their anger they slew a man, and in their selfwill they digged down a wall.
Jeremiah 49 16 Thy terribleness hath deceived thee, and the pride of thine heart, O thou that dwellest in the clefts of the rock, that holdest the height of the hill: though thou shouldest make thy nest as high as the eagle, I will bring thee down from thence, saith the LORD.
Psalms 53 5 There were they in great fear, where no fear was: for God hath scattered the bones of him that encampeth against thee: thou hast put them to shame, because God hath despised them.
Jeremiah 5 26 For among my people are found wicked men: they lay wait, as he that setteth snares; they set a trap, they catch men.
Isaiah 30 16 But ye said, No; for we will flee upon horses; therefore shall ye flee: and, We will ride upon the swift; therefore shall they that pursue you be swift.
Luke 19 43 For the days shall come upon thee, that thine enemies shall cast a trench about thee, and compass thee round, and keep thee in on every side,
Joshua 10 19 And stay ye not, but pursue after your enemies, and smite the hindmost of them; suffer them not to enter into their cities: for the LORD your God hath delivered them into your hand.
Psalms 118 12 They compassed me about like bees: they are quenched as the fire of thorns: for in the name of the LORD I will destroy them.
Zechariah 10 5 And they shall be as mighty men, which tread down their enemies in the mire of the streets in the battle: and they shall fight, because the LORD is with them, and the riders on horses shall be confounded.
Deuteronomy 3 22 Ye shall not fear them: for the LORD your God he shall fight for you.
Psalms 56 2 Mine enemies would daily swallow me up: for they be many that fight against me, O thou most High.
Psalms 60 12 Through God we shall do valiantly: for he it is that shall tread down our enemies.
Deuteronomy 32 35 To me belongeth vengeance and recompence; their foot shall slide in due time: for the day of their calamity is at hand, and the things that shall come upon them make haste.
Psalms 79 8 O remember not against us former iniquities: let thy tender mercies speedily prevent us: for we are brought very low.
Psalms 109 4 For my love they are my adversaries: but I give myself unto prayer.
Jeremiah 30 14 All thy lovers have forgotten thee; they seek thee not; for I have wounded thee with the wound of an enemy, with the chastisement of a cruel one, for the multitude of thine iniquity; because thy sins were increased.
Lamentations 2 16 All thine enemies have opened their mouth against thee: they hiss and gnash the teeth: they say, We have swallowed her up: certainly this is the day that we looked for; we have found, we have seen it.
Psalms 124 2 If it had not been the LORD who was on our side, when men rose up against us:
Jeremiah 6 23 They shall lay hold on bow and spear; they are cruel, and have no mercy; their voice roareth like the sea; and they ride upon horses, set in array as men for war against thee, O daughter of Zion.
Job 30 5 They were driven forth from among men, they cried after them as after a thief;
Judges 5 31 So let all thine enemies perish, O LORD: but let them that love him be as the sun when he goeth forth in his might. And the land had rest forty years.
Exodus 9 17 As yet exaltest thou thyself against my people, that thou wilt not let them go?
Hosea 7 2 And they consider not in their hearts that I remember all their wickedness: now their own doings have beset them about; they are before my face.
Isaiah 26 10 Let favour be shewed to the wicked, yet will he not learn righteousness: in the land of uprightness will he deal unjustly, and will not behold the majesty of the LORD.
Psalms 45 5 Thine arrows are sharp in the heart of the king's enemies; whereby the people fall under thee.
2 Corinthians 11 26 In journeyings often, in perils of waters, in perils of robbers, in perils by mine own countrymen, in perils by the heathen, in perils in the city, in perils in the wilderness, in perils in the sea, in perils among false brethren;
Judges 2 3 Wherefore I also said, I will not drive them out from before you; but they shall be as thorns in your sides, and their gods shall be a snare unto you.
Lamentations 2 22 Thou hast called as in a solemn day my terrors round about, so that in the day of the LORD's anger none escaped nor remained: those that I have swaddled and brought up hath mine enemy consumed.
Luke 2 9 And, lo, the angel of the Lord came upon them, and the glory of the Lord shone round about them: and they were sore afraid.
Ezekiel 7 16 But they that escape of them shall escape, and shall be on the mountains like doves of the valleys, all of them mourning, every one for his iniquity.
Hosea 10 13 Ye have plowed wickedness, ye have reaped iniquity; ye have eaten the fruit of lies: because thou didst trust in thy way, in the multitude of thy mighty men.
Psalms 8 2 Out of the mouth of babes and sucklings hast thou ordained strength because of thine enemies, that thou mightest still the enemy and the avenger.
Psalms 74 3 Lift up thy feet unto the perpetual desolations; even all that the enemy hath done wickedly in the sanctuary.