LXX Concordance for ἐχθροῦ

“If you come across your enemy's stray ox or donkey, you must return it to him.

“What can I say, Lord, now that Israel has turned its back and run from its enemies?

They brought Ish-bosheth's head to David at Hebron and said to the king, “Here's the head of Ish-bosheth son of Saul, your enemy who intended to take your life. Today the LORD has granted vengeance to my lord the king against Saul and his offspring.”

Indeed, he lured you from the jaws[fn] of distress

to a spacious and unconfined place.

Your table was spread with choice food.

The enemy has come to eternal ruin;

you have uprooted the cities,

and the very memory of them has perished.

and have not handed me over to the enemy.

You have set my feet in a spacious place.

The LORD will keep him and preserve him;

he will be blessed in the land.

You will not give him over to the desire of his enemies.

because of the taunts[fn] of the scorner and reviler,

because of the enemy and avenger.

because of the enemy's words,[fn]

because of the pressure[fn] of the wicked.

For they bring down disaster on me

and harass me in anger.

for you have been a refuge for me,

a strong tower in the face of the enemy.

God, hear my voice when I am in anguish.

Protect my life from the terror of the enemy.

He gave up his strength to captivity

and his splendor to the hand of a foe.

He saved them from the power of the adversary;

he redeemed them from the power of the enemy.

Let the redeemed of the LORD proclaim

that he has redeemed them from the power of the foe

All your lovers have forgotten you;

they no longer look for you,

for I have struck you as an enemy would,

with the discipline of someone cruel,

because of your enormous guilt

and your innumerable sins.

This is what the LORD says: I am about to hand over Pharaoh Hophra, Egypt's king, to his enemies, to those who intend to take his life, just as I handed over Judah's King Zedekiah to Babylon's King Nebuchadnezzar, who was his enemy, the one who intended to take his life.' ”

If your people Israel are defeated before an enemy,

because they have sinned against you,

and they return to you and praise your name,

and they pray and plead for mercy

before you in this temple,

I did this because I was ashamed to ask the king for infantry and cavalry to protect us from enemies during the journey, since we had told him, “The hand of our God is gracious to all who seek him, but his fierce anger is against all who abandon him.”

We set out from the Ahava River on the twelfth day of the first month to go to Jerusalem. We were strengthened by our God,[fn] and he kept us from the grasp of the enemy and from ambush along the way.

They killed these ten sons of Haman son of Hammedatha, the enemy of the Jews. However, they did not seize[fn] any plunder.

The wounds of a friend are trustworthy,

but the kisses of an enemy are excessive.

He has cut off every horn of Israel

in his burning anger

and withdrawn his right hand

in the presence of the enemy.

He has blazed against Jacob like a flaming fire

that consumes everything.

The Lord has rejected his altar,

repudiated his sanctuary;

he has handed the walls of her palaces

over to the enemy.

They have raised a shout in the house of the LORD

as on the day of an appointed festival.