Lexicon :: Strong's H6862 - ṣar

And blessed, praised, and glorified be God Most High,

Who has given your enemies into your hand.”

And Abram gave him a tenth of all [the treasure he had taken in battle].

“God brought Israel out of Egypt;

Israel has [fn]strength like the wild ox;

He will devour [Gentile] nations, his adversaries (enemies),

And will crush their bones in pieces,

And shatter them with his arrows.

Had I not feared the provocation of the enemy,

That their adversaries would misjudge,

That they would say, “Our [own] hand has prevailed,

And the LORD has not done all this.”’

If I sharpen the lightning of My sword,

And My hand takes hold of judgment,

I will render vengeance on My adversaries,

And I will repay those who hate Me.

“Rejoice, O nations, with His people;

For He will avenge the blood of His servants,

And will render vengeance on His adversaries,

And will atone for His land and His people.”

And [Moses said] this of [fn]Judah:

“Hear, O LORD, the voice of Judah,

And bring him to his people.

With his hands he contended for them,

And may You be a help against his enemies.”

Now when Joshua was by Jericho, he looked up, and behold, [fn]a man was standing opposite him with his drawn sword in his hand, and Joshua went to him and said to him, “Are you for us or for our adversaries?”

“In my distress I called upon the LORD;

I cried out to my God,

And from His temple [in the heavens] He heard my voice;

My cry for help came into His ears.

Now the [fn]sons of the prophets said to Elisha, “Look now, the place where we [fn]live near you is too small for us.

Now when [the Samaritans] the adversaries of Judah and Benjamin heard that the exiles from the captivity were building a temple to the LORD God of Israel,

Our enemies said, “They will not know or see us until we are among them, kill them and put a stop to the work.”

“Therefore You handed them over to their enemies who oppressed them.

But when they cried out to You in the time of their suffering and distress,

You heard them from heaven, and according to Your great compassion You gave them [fn]people to rescue them.

Who rescued them from the hand of their enemies.

Or, ‘Rescue me from the adversary’s hand,’

Or, ‘Redeem me from the hand of the tyrants’?

“Therefore I will not restrain my mouth;

I will speak in the anguish of my spirit,

I will complain in the bitterness of my soul [O Lord].

“Distress and anxiety terrify him,

They overpower him like a king ready for battle.

“His wrath has torn me and hunted me down,

He has gnashed at me with his teeth;

My adversary sharpens His gaze and glares [with piercing eyes] at me.

“He has also kindled His wrath [like a fire] against me

And He considers and counts me as one of His adversaries.

“Then indeed, He enticed you from the mouth of distress and confinement,

Into a broad place where there is no constraint or distress;

And that which was set on your table was full of fatness (rich food).

Which I have reserved for the time of trouble,

For the day of battle and war?

“His strong scales are his pride,

Bound together as with a tight seal.

A Psalm of David. When he fled from Absalom his son.

O LORD, how my enemies have increased!

Many are rising up against me.

To the Chief Musician; on stringed instruments. A Psalm of David.

Answer me when I call, O God of my righteousness!

You have freed me when I was hemmed in and relieved me when I was in distress;

Be gracious to me and hear [and respond to] my prayer.

And my enemy will say, “I have overcome him,”

And my adversaries will rejoice when I am shaken.

In my distress [when I seemed surrounded] I called upon the LORD

And cried to my God for help;

He heard my voice from His temple,

And my cry for help came before Him, into His very ears.

When the wicked came against me to eat up my flesh,

My adversaries and my enemies, they stumbled and fell.

Do not give me up to the will of my adversaries,

For false witnesses have come against me;

They breathe out violence.

You are my hiding place; You, LORD, protect me from trouble;

You surround me with songs and shouts of deliverance. Selah.

Through You we will gore our enemies [like a bull];

Through Your name we will trample down those who rise up against us.

But You have saved us from our enemies,

And You have put them to shame and humiliated those who hate us.

You make us turn back from the enemy,

And those who hate us have taken spoil for themselves.

But as for me, I will sing of Your mighty strength and power;

Yes, I will sing joyfully of Your lovingkindness in the morning;

For You have been my stronghold

And a refuge in the day of my distress.

Give us help against the enemy,

For the help of man is worthless (ineffectual, without purpose).

Which my lips uttered

And my mouth spoke as a promise when I was in distress.

O God, how long will the adversary scoff?

Is the enemy to revile Your name forever?

They did not remember [the miracles worked by] His [powerful] hand,

Nor the day when He redeemed them from the enemy,