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In the biblical context, the term "adversaries" refers to individuals, groups, or spiritual entities that oppose or stand against God's people, His purposes, or His divine will. The concept of adversaries is woven throughout the Scriptures, highlighting both human and supernatural opposition.

Old Testament Context

In the Old Testament, adversaries often appear as nations or individuals who oppose Israel, God's chosen people. These adversaries are frequently depicted as instruments of divine judgment or as entities that God ultimately overcomes to demonstrate His sovereignty and faithfulness to His covenant.

1.Human Adversaries: The Israelites faced numerous adversaries throughout their history, including the Egyptians, Canaanites, Philistines, and Babylonians. For example, inExodus 23:22, God promises protection against adversaries: "But if you will indeed obey My voice and do all that I say, then I will be an enemy to your enemies and a foe to your foes."

2.Spiritual Adversaries: The Old Testament also introduces the concept of spiritual adversaries, most notably Satan. In1 Chronicles 21:1, Satan is described as an adversary who incites David to take a census of Israel: "Then Satan rose up against Israel and incited David to take a census of Israel."

New Testament Context

The New Testament expands on the theme of adversaries, emphasizing the spiritual battle between believers and the forces of evil. The apostle Paul frequently addresses the reality of spiritual adversaries and the need for believers to be vigilant and equipped for spiritual warfare.

1.Satan and Demonic Forces: Satan is portrayed as the ultimate adversary of God and His people. In1 Peter 5:8, believers are warned: "Be sober-minded and alert. Your adversary the devil prowls around like a roaring lion, seeking someone to devour."

2.Worldly Opposition: The New Testament also acknowledges the presence of human adversaries who oppose the spread of the Gospel. Jesus Himself warned His disciples of such opposition inJohn 15:18-19: "If the world hates you, understand that it hated Me first. If you were of the world, it would love you as its own. Instead, the world hates you, because you are not of the world, but I have chosen you out of the world."

Spiritual Warfare and the Believer's Response

Believers are called to recognize and resist their adversaries through spiritual means.Ephesians 6:11-12 instructs Christians to "Put on the full armor of God, so that you can make your stand against the devil’s schemes. For our struggle is not against flesh and blood, but against the rulers, against the authorities, against the powers of this world’s darkness, and against the spiritual forces of evil in the heavenly realms."

Prayer, faith, and adherence to God's Word are essential tools in combating adversaries.James 4:7 encourages believers to "Submit yourselves, then, to God. Resist the devil, and he will flee from you."

God's Sovereignty Over Adversaries

Throughout Scripture, God is depicted as sovereign over all adversaries, whether human or spiritual. He uses them to fulfill His purposes and ultimately brings about their defeat.Romans 8:31 reassures believers of God's power over adversaries: "What then shall we say in response to these things? If God is for us, who can be against us?"

The biblical narrative consistently affirms that while adversaries may pose challenges, they cannot thwart God's ultimate plan for redemption and the establishment of His kingdom.

Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary

(n.) Plural of Adversary.

Greek

480. antikeimai -- to lie opposite, ie oppose, withstand
... Word Origin from anti and keimai Definition to lie opposite, ie oppose, withstand
NASB Word Usageadversaries (1), contrary (1), enemy (1), opponents (3...

5227. hupenantios -- set over against, opposite
... Word Origin from hupo and enantios Definition set over against, opposite NASB
Word Usageadversaries (1), hostile (1). adversary, against....

Strong's Hebrew

6887c. tsarar -- to show hostility toward, vex
... 6887b, 6887c. tsarar. 6887d . to show hostility toward, vex. Transliteration:
tsarar Short Definition:adversaries. Word Origin a prim....

6146. ar -- foe
... 6145, 6146. ar. 6147 . foe. Transliteration: ar Phonetic Spelling: (awr) Short
Definition:adversaries. Word Origin (Aramaic) corresponding...

6862c. tsar -- adversary, foe
... 6862b, 6862c. tsar. 6862d . adversary, foe. Transliteration: tsar Short
Definition:adversaries. Word Origin from tsarar Definition...

7009. qim -- adversary
... 7008, 7009. qim. 7010 . adversary. Transliteration: qim Phonetic Spelling:
(keem) Short Definition:adversaries. Word Origin from...

7853. satan -- to be or act as adversary
... denominative verb from satan Definition to be or act as adversary NASB Word Usage
accuse (1), accusers (2), act as my accusers (1),adversaries (1), oppose (1...

Library

Of theAdversaries of the Name of Christ, whom the Barbarians for...
... The City of God.Book I. Chapter 1."Of theAdversaries of the Name of Christ, Whom
the Barbarians for Christ's Sake Spared When They Stormed the City....

Of theAdversaries of God There Still Remained One...
... XLIII. Of theadversaries of God there still remained one? Of theadversaries of
God there still remained one, whose overthrow and end I am now to relate....

TheAdversaries Cannot Deny Predestination to those Gifts of Grace...
... A Treatise on the gift of perseverance, Chapter 42."TheAdversaries Cannot Deny
Predestination to Those Gifts of Grace Which They Themselves Acknowledge, and...

He Argues againstAdversaries Concerning the Heaven of Heavens.
... Book XII. Chapter XV."He Argues AgainstAdversaries Concerning the Heaven
of Heavens. 18. "Will you say that these things are...

Some Carriages of theAdversaries of God's Truth with Me at the...
... Some Carriages of theAdversaries of God's Truth with me at the next Assizes,
which was on the 19th of the first month, 1662. I...

Our Historical Scriptures were Attacked by the EarlyAdversaries...
... PART I. SECTION IX. Our historical Scriptures were attacked by the early
adversaries of Christianity? Our historical Scriptures...

Reply to the Arguments of theAdversaries.
... Part 7 Reply to the Arguments of theAdversaries. Now, when the grounds
of this case have been understood, namely, the distinction...

What Other Objection is Alleged by OurAdversaries? This...
... IV."Apologetic Works. Chapter XXXII. What other objection is alleged by ouradversaries?
This? What other objection is alleged by ouradversaries?...

Of the Truth of the Christian Doctrine, and the Vanity of Its...
... Chap. III."Of the Truth of the Christian Doctrine, and the Vanity of
ItsAdversaries; And that Christ Was Not a Magician. The...

The Accusation of Fate is Thrown Back Upon theAdversaries.
... Book II. Chapter 11 [VI.]"The Accusation of Fate is Thrown Back Upon the
Adversaries. But is it true, O children of pride, enemies...

Thesaurus

Adversaries (93 Occurrences)
...Adversaries (93 Occurrences).... Luke 21:15 for I will give you a mouth and wisdom which
all youradversaries will not be able to withstand or to contradict....

Foes (95 Occurrences)
... With his hands he contended for himself. You shall be a help against his
adversaries." (See NIV).... Yahweh, how myadversaries have increased!...

Foe (23 Occurrences)
... Psalms 8:2 From the lips of babes and infants you have established strength, because
of youradversaries, that you might silence the enemy and the avenger....

Dishonor (47 Occurrences)
... Psalms 69:19 You know my reproach, my shame, and my dishonor. Myadversaries are
all before you.... Psalms 109:29 Let myadversaries be clothed with dishonor....

Avenge (27 Occurrences)
... He will render vengeance to hisadversaries, And will make expiation for his land,
for his people. (WEB KJV JPS ASV DBY WBS YLT NAS RSV NIV)....

Shamed (91 Occurrences)
... Luke 13:17 And when he had said these things, all hisadversaries were ashamed:
and all the people rejoiced for all the glorious things that were done by him....

Vexation (36 Occurrences)
... On the other hand, the Revised Version (British and American) has "vex" for "distress"
(Deuteronomy 2:9, 19); "they that vex" for "theadversaries of" (Isaiah...

Kindleth (9 Occurrences)
... vineyard -- olive-yard. (YLT). Job 19:11 And He kindleth against me His anger,
And reckoneth me to Him as Hisadversaries. (YLT). Job 41...

Givest (31 Occurrences)
... Nehemiah 9:27 and Thou givest them into the hand of theiradversaries, and they
distress them, and in the time of their distress they cry unto Thee, and Thou...

Withstanders (15 Occurrences)
... (YLT). Psalms 44:5 By Thee ouradversaries we do push, By Thy name tread down our
withstanders, (YLT). Psalms 59:1 To the Overseer. -- 'Destroy not,' by David....

Resources

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Adversaries (93 Occurrences)

Luke 13:17
As he said these things, all hisadversaries were disappointed, and all the multitude rejoiced for all the glorious things that were done by him.
(WEB KJV ASV WBS RSV)

Luke 21:15
for I will give you a mouth and wisdom which all youradversaries will not be able to withstand or to contradict.
(WEB KJV ASV WBS RSV NIV)

1 Corinthians 16:9
for a great and effective door has opened to me, and there are manyadversaries.
(WEB KJV ASV DBY WBS NAS RSV)

Philippians 1:28
and in nothing frightened by theadversaries, which is for them a proof of destruction, but to you of salvation, and that from God.
(WEB KJV ASV WBS)

Hebrews 10:27
but a certain fearful expectation of judgment, and a fierceness of fire which will devour theadversaries. The Letter from James
(WEB KJV ASV DBY WBS NAS RSV)

Genesis 14:20
and blessed 'is' God Most High, who hath delivered thineadversaries into thy hand;' and he giveth to him a tenth of all.
(YLT)

Exodus 15:7
And by the greatness of thine excellency thou hast overthrown thineadversaries: Thou sentest forth thy burning wrath, it consumed them as stubble.
(DBY RSV)

Exodus 23:22
But if you indeed listen to his voice, and do all that I speak, then I will be an enemy to your enemies, and an adversary to youradversaries.
(WEB KJV JPS ASV DBY WBS NAS RSV)

Exodus 32:25
And Moses saw the people how they were stripped; for Aaron had stripped them to their shame before theiradversaries.
(DBY)

Numbers 24:8
God brings him out of Egypt. He has as it were the strength of the wild ox. He shall eat up the nations hisadversaries, shall break their bones in pieces, and pierce them with his arrows.
(WEB JPS ASV YLT NAS RSV)

Numbers 25:18
for they areadversaries to you with their frauds, 'with' which they have acted fraudulently to you, concerning the matter of Peor, and concerning the matter of Cozbi, daughter of a prince of Midian, their sister, who is smitten in the day of the plague for the matter of Peor.'
(YLT)

Deuteronomy 32:27
were it not that I feared the provocation of the enemy, lest theiradversaries should judge wrongly, lest they should say,'Our hand is exalted, Yahweh has not done all this.'"
(WEB KJV JPS ASV DBY WBS YLT NAS RSV)

Deuteronomy 32:41
if I whet my glittering sword, My hand take hold on judgment; I will render vengeance to myadversaries, and will recompense those who hate me.
(WEB JPS ASV DBY YLT NAS RSV NIV)

Deuteronomy 32:43
Rejoice, you nations, with his people, for he will avenge the blood of his servants. He will render vengeance to hisadversaries, And will make expiation for his land, for his people.
(WEB KJV JPS ASV WBS YLT NAS RSV)

Deuteronomy 33:7
This is the blessing of Judah: and he said, "Hear, Yahweh, the voice of Judah. Bring him in to his people. With his hands he contended for himself. You shall be a help against hisadversaries."
(WEB JPS ASV YLT NAS RSV)

Deuteronomy 33:11
Bless, Jehovah, his substance! And let the work of his hands please thee; Crush the loins of hisadversaries, And of them that hate him, that they may never rise again!
(DBY RSV)

Joshua 5:13
It happened, when Joshua was by Jericho, that he lifted up his eyes and looked, and behold, a man stood in front of him with his sword drawn in his hand. Joshua went to him, and said to him, "Are you for us, or for ouradversaries?"
(WEB KJV JPS ASV WBS YLT NAS RSV)

Judges 2:3
So now I say, I will not drive them out before you; but they shall becomeadversaries to you, and their gods shall be a snare to you."
(DBY YLT RSV)

1 Samuel 2:10
Theadversaries of the LORD shall be broken to pieces; out of heaven shall he thunder upon them: the LORD shall judge the ends of the earth; and he shall give strength unto his king, and exalt the horn of his anointed.
(KJV WBS YLT RSV)

2 Samuel 19:22
David said, "What have I to do with you, you sons of Zeruiah, that you should this day beadversaries to me? Shall there any man be put to death this day in Israel? For don't I know that I am this day king over Israel?"
(WEB KJV JPS ASV DBY WBS NIV)

2 Samuel 22:40
For you have armed me with strength for the battle. You have subdued under me those who rose up against me.
(See NIV)

2 Samuel 22:49
who brings me away from my enemies. Yes, you lift me up above those who rise up against me. You deliver me from the violent man.
(See RSV)

2 Samuel 24:13
And Gad came to David, and told him, and said to him, Shall seven years of famine come to thee in thy land? or wilt thou flee three months before thineadversaries while they pursue thee? or shall there be three days' pestilence in thy land? Now be aware and consider what word I shall bring again to him that sent me.
(DBY)

1 Chronicles 12:17
David went out to meet them, and answered them, "If you have come peaceably to me to help me, my heart shall be knit to you; but if you have come to betray me to myadversaries, seeing there is no wrong in my hands, may the God of our fathers look thereon, and rebuke it."
(WEB JPS ASV YLT NAS RSV)

1 Chronicles 21:12
Choose thee, either three years of famine, or three months to be destroyed before thineadversaries while that the sword of thine enemies overtaketh thee, or three days the sword of Jehovah and the pestilence in the land, and the angel of Jehovah destroying through all the borders of Israel. And now consider what word I shall bring again to him that sent me.
(DBY YLT)

Ezra 4:1
Now when theadversaries of Judah and Benjamin heard that the children of the captivity were building a temple to Yahweh, the God of Israel;
(WEB KJV JPS ASV DBY WBS YLT RSV)

Nehemiah 4:11
Ouradversaries said, They shall not know, neither see, until we come into the midst of them, and kill them, and cause the work to cease.
(WEB KJV JPS ASV DBY WBS YLT)

Nehemiah 9:27
Therefore you delivered them into the hand of theiradversaries, who distressed them: and in the time of their trouble, when they cried to you, you heard from heaven; and according to your manifold mercies you gave them saviors who saved them out of the hand of their adversaries.
(WEB JPS ASV YLT)

Job 19:11
He has also kindled his wrath against me. He counts me among hisadversaries.
(WEB JPS ASV YLT)

Job 22:20
saying,'Surely those who rose up against us are cut off. The fire has consumed the remnant of them.' cities which are not inhabited.
(See NAS RSV)

Job 27:7
"Let my enemy be as the wicked. Let him who rises up against me be as the unrighteous.
(See NIV)

Psalms 3:1
A Psalm by David, when he fled from Absalom his son. Yahweh, how myadversaries have increased! Many are those who rise up against me.
(WEB ASV NAS)

Psalms 6:7
My eye wastes away because of grief. It grows old because of all myadversaries.
(WEB JPS ASV YLT NAS)

Psalms 7:6
Arise, Yahweh, in your anger. Lift up yourself against the rage of myadversaries. Awake for me. You have commanded judgment.
(WEB JPS ASV YLT NAS)

Psalms 8:2
From the lips of babes and infants you have established strength, because of youradversaries, that you might silence the enemy and the avenger.
(WEB JPS ASV DBY YLT NAS)

Psalms 10:5
His ways are prosperous at all times. He is haughty, and your laws are far from his sight. As for all hisadversaries, he sneers at them.
(WEB JPS ASV DBY YLT NAS)

Psalms 13:4
Lest my enemy say, "I have prevailed against him;" Lest myadversaries rejoice when I fall.
(WEB JPS ASV DBY YLT NAS)

Psalms 17:7
Show your marvelous loving kindness, you who save those who take refuge by your right hand from their enemies.
(See RSV)

Psalms 18:39
For you have girded me with strength to the battle. You have subdued under me those who rose up against me.
(See NIV)

Psalms 18:48
He rescues me from my enemies. Yes, you lift me up above those who rise up against me. You deliver me from the violent man.
(See RSV)

Psalms 23:5
Thou arrangest before me a table, Over-against myadversaries, Thou hast anointed with oil my head, My cup is full!
(YLT)

Psalms 27:2
When evildoers came at me to eat up my flesh, even myadversaries and my foes, they stumbled and fell.
(WEB JPS ASV DBY YLT NAS RSV)

Psalms 31:11
Because of all myadversaries I have become utterly contemptible to my neighbors, A fear to my acquaintances. Those who saw me on the street fled from me.
(WEB JPS ASV YLT NAS RSV)

Psalms 38:20
They who also render evil for good areadversaries to me, because I follow what is good.
(WEB KJV JPS ASV DBY WBS RSV)

Psalms 42:10
As with a sword in my bones, myadversaries reproach me, while they continually ask me, "Where is your God?"
(WEB JPS ASV DBY YLT NAS RSV)

Psalms 44:5
Through you, will we push down ouradversaries. Through your name, will we tread them under who rise up against us.
(WEB JPS ASV DBY YLT NAS)

Psalms 44:7
But you have saved us from ouradversaries, and have shamed those who hate us.
(WEB JPS ASV DBY YLT NAS NIV)

Psalms 44:10
Thou makest us to turn back from the adversary; and they that hate us spoil at their will.
(See NIV)

Psalms 59:10
My God with his lovingkindness will meet me: God will let me see my desire upon mine enemies.
(See JPS)

Psalms 60:12
Through God we shall do valiantly, for it is he who will tread down ouradversaries.
(WEB JPS ASV DBY YLT NAS)

Psalms 69:19
You know my reproach, my shame, and my dishonor. Myadversaries are all before you.
(WEB KJV JPS ASV DBY WBS YLT NAS)

Psalms 71:13
Let them be confounded and consumed that areadversaries to my soul; let them be covered with reproach and dishonour that seek my hurt.
(KJV JPS ASV DBY WBS NAS)

Psalms 74:4
Youradversaries have roared in the midst of your assembly. They have set up their standards as signs.
(WEB JPS ASV DBY YLT NAS)

Psalms 74:23
Don't forget the voice of youradversaries. The tumult of those who rise up against you ascends continually.
(WEB JPS ASV DBY YLT NAS RSV NIV)

Psalms 78:66
He struck hisadversaries backward. He put them to a perpetual reproach.
(WEB JPS ASV DBY YLT NAS RSV)

Psalms 81:14
I would soon subdue their enemies, and turn my hand against theiradversaries.
(WEB KJV JPS ASV DBY WBS YLT NAS)

Psalms 89:23
I will beat down hisadversaries before him, and strike those who hate him.
(WEB JPS ASV DBY YLT NAS NIV)

Psalms 89:42
You have exalted the right hand of hisadversaries. You have made all of his enemies rejoice.
(WEB KJV JPS ASV WBS YLT NAS)

Psalms 92:11
My eye has also seen my enemies. My ears have heard of the wicked enemies who rise up against me.
(See NIV)

Psalms 97:3
A fire goes before him, and burns up hisadversaries on every side.
(WEB JPS ASV DBY YLT NAS RSV)

Psalms 105:24
He increased his people greatly, and made them stronger than theiradversaries.
(WEB JPS ASV YLT NAS)

Psalms 106:11
The waters covered theiradversaries. There was not one of them left.
(WEB JPS ASV YLT NAS RSV NIV)

Psalms 108:13
Through God we shall do valiantly: For he it is that will tread down ouradversaries.
(ASV DBY JPS YLT NAS)

Psalms 109:4
In return for my love, they are myadversaries; but I am in prayer.
(WEB KJV JPS ASV DBY WBS)

Psalms 109:20
This is the reward of myadversaries from Yahweh, of those who speak evil against my soul.
(WEB KJV JPS ASV DBY WBS)

Psalms 109:29
Let myadversaries be clothed with dishonor. Let them cover themselves with their own shame as with a robe.
(WEB KJV JPS ASV DBY WBS)

Psalms 112:8
His heart is established. He will not be afraid in the end when he sees hisadversaries.
(WEB JPS ASV YLT NAS RSV)

Psalms 119:139
My zeal hath consumed me, Because mineadversaries have forgotten thy words.
(ASV JPS YLT NAS)

Psalms 119:157
Many are my persecutors and myadversaries. I haven't swerved from your testimonies.
(WEB JPS ASV YLT NAS RSV)

Psalms 136:24
And has delivered us from ouradversaries; for his loving kindness endures forever:
(WEB JPS ASV YLT NAS)

Psalms 139:20
For they go against you with evil designs, and your haters make sport of your name.
(See NIV)

Isaiah 1:24
Therefore the Lord, Yahweh of Armies, the Mighty One of Israel, says: "Ah, I will get relief from myadversaries, and avenge myself of my enemies;
(WEB KJV JPS ASV DBY WBS YLT NAS)

Isaiah 9:11
Therefore Yahweh will set up on high against him theadversaries of Rezin, and will stir up his enemies,
(WEB KJV JPS ASV DBY WBS YLT NAS RSV)

Isaiah 11:13
The envy also of Ephraim shall depart, and theadversaries of Judah shall be cut off: Ephraim shall not envy Judah, and Judah shall not vex Ephraim.
(KJV WBS YLT)

Isaiah 26:11
Yahweh, your hand is lifted up, yet they don't see; but they will see your zeal for the people, and be disappointed. Yes, fire will consume youradversaries.
(WEB JPS ASV DBY YLT RSV)

Isaiah 59:18
According to their deeds, accordingly he will repay, wrath to hisadversaries, recompense to his enemies; to the islands he will repay recompense.
(WEB KJV JPS ASV DBY WBS YLT NAS RSV)

Isaiah 63:18
Your holy people possessed it but a little while: ouradversaries have trodden down your sanctuary.
(WEB KJV JPS ASV DBY WBS YLT NAS RSV)

Isaiah 64:2
as when fire kindles the brushwood, and the fire causes the waters to boil; to make your name known to youradversaries, that the nations may tremble at your presence!
(WEB KJV JPS ASV DBY WBS YLT NAS RSV)

Jeremiah 30:16
Therefore all those who devour you shall be devoured; and all youradversaries, everyone of them, shall go into captivity; and those who despoil you shall be a spoil, and all who prey on you will I give for a prey.
(WEB KJV JPS ASV DBY WBS YLT NAS)

Jeremiah 46:10
For that day is a day of the Lord, Yahweh of Armies, a day of vengeance, that he may avenge him of hisadversaries: and the sword shall devour and be satiate, and shall drink its fill of their blood; for the Lord, Yahweh of Armies, has a sacrifice in the north country by the river Euphrates.
(WEB KJV JPS ASV DBY WBS YLT)

Jeremiah 48:5
For the ascent of Luhith with weeping, Go up doth weeping, For in the descent of HoronaimAdversaries a cry of desolation have heard.
(YLT)

Jeremiah 50:7
All who found them have devoured them; and theiradversaries said, We are not guilty, because they have sinned against Yahweh, the habitation of righteousness, even Yahweh, the hope of their fathers.
(WEB KJV JPS ASV DBY WBS YLT NAS)

Lamentations 1:5
Heradversaries are become the head, her enemies prosper; for Yahweh has afflicted her for the multitude of her transgressions: her young children are gone into captivity before the adversary.
(WEB KJV JPS ASV DBY WBS YLT NAS)

Lamentations 1:7
Jerusalem remembers in the days of her affliction and of her miseries all her pleasant things that were from the days of old: when her people fell into the hand of the adversary, and none did help her, Theadversaries saw her, they did mock at her desolations.
(WEB KJV JPS ASV DBY WBS YLT NAS)

Lamentations 1:17
Zion spreads forth her hands; there is none to comfort her; Yahweh has commanded concerning Jacob, that those who are around him should be hisadversaries: Jerusalem is among them as an unclean thing.
(WEB KJV JPS ASV DBY WBS YLT NAS)

Lamentations 2:17
Yahweh has done that which he purposed; he has fulfilled his word that he commanded in the days of old; He has thrown down, and has not pitied: He has caused the enemy to rejoice over you; he has exalted the horn of youradversaries.
(WEB KJV JPS ASV DBY WBS YLT NAS)

Ezekiel 30:16
I will set a fire in Egypt: Sin shall be in great anguish, and No shall be broken up; and Memphis shall haveadversaries in the daytime.
(WEB JPS ASV)

Ezekiel 39:23
The nations shall know that the house of Israel went into captivity for their iniquity; because they trespassed against me, and I hid my face from them: so I gave them into the hand of theiradversaries, and they fell all of them by the sword.
(WEB JPS ASV YLT NAS RSV)

Daniel 4:19
Then Daniel, whose name was Belteshazzar, was stricken mute for a while, and his thoughts troubled him. The king answered, Belteshazzar, don't let the dream, or the interpretation, trouble you. Belteshazzar answered, My lord, the dream be to those who hate you, and its interpretation to youradversaries.
(WEB JPS ASV NAS NIV)

Amos 5:12
For I have known -- many 'are' your transgressions, And mighty your sins,Adversaries of the righteous, taking ransoms, And the needy in the gate ye turned aside.
(YLT)

Micah 5:9
Let your hand be lifted up above youradversaries, and let all of your enemies be cut off.
(WEB KJV JPS ASV DBY WBS YLT NAS RSV)

Nahum 1:2
Yahweh is a jealous God and avenges. Yahweh avenges and is full of wrath. Yahweh takes vengeance on hisadversaries, and he maintains wrath against his enemies.
(WEB KJV JPS ASV DBY WBS YLT NAS RSV)

Nahum 1:8
But with an overflowing flood, he will make a full end of her place, and will pursue his enemies into darkness.
(See RSV)

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