Lexicon :: Strong's H6862 - ṣar

and blessed be God Most High

who has handed over your enemies to you.

And Abram gave him a tenth of everything.

“When you enter into battle in your land against an adversary who is attacking you, sound short blasts on the trumpets, and you will be remembered before the LORD your God and be saved from your enemies.

The angel of the LORD went ahead and stood in a narrow place where there was no room to turn to the right or the left.

God brought him out of Egypt;

he is like[fn] the horns of a wild ox for them.

He will feed on enemy nations

and gnaw their bones;

he will strike them with his arrows.

“When you are in distress and all these things have happened to you, in the future you will return to the LORD your God and obey him.

“if I had not feared provocation from the enemy,

or feared that these foes might misunderstand

and say, ‘Our own hand has prevailed;

it wasn’t the LORD who did all this.’ ”

“when I sharpen my flashing sword,

and my hand takes hold of judgment,

I will take vengeance on my adversaries

and repay those who hate me.

Rejoice, you nations, concerning his people,[fn]

for he will avenge the blood of his servants.[fn]

He will take vengeance on his adversaries;[fn]

he will purify his land and his people.[fn]

He said this about Judah:

LORD, hear Judah’s cry and bring him to his people.

He fights for his cause[fn] with his own hands,

but may you be a help against his foes.

When Joshua was near Jericho, he looked up and saw a man standing in front of him with a drawn sword in his hand. Joshua approached him and asked, “Are you for us or for our enemies? ”

Jephthah replied to the elders of Gilead, “Didn’t you hate me and drive me out of my father’s family? Why then have you come to me now when you’re in trouble? ”

“You will see distress in the place of worship, in spite of all that is good in Israel, and no one in your family will ever again reach old age.

The men of Israel saw that they were in trouble because the troops were in a difficult situation. They hid in caves, in thickets, among rocks, and in holes and cisterns.

I called to the LORD in my distress;

I called to my God.

From his temple he heard my voice,

and my cry for help reached his ears.

So Gad went to David, told him the choices, and asked him, “Do you want three[fn] years of famine to come on your land, to flee from your foes three months while they pursue you, or to have a plague in your land three days? Now, consider carefully[fn] what answer I should take back to the one who sent me.”

The sons of the prophets said to Elisha, “Please notice that the place where we live under your supervision[fn] is too small for us.

David went out to meet them and said to them, “If you have come in peace to help me, my heart will be united with you, but if you have come to betray me to my enemies even though my hands have done no wrong, may the God of our ancestors look on it and judge.”

“three years of famine, or three months of devastation by your foes with the sword of your enemy overtaking you, or three days of the sword of the LORD ​— ​a plague on the land, the angel of the LORD bringing destruction to the whole territory of Israel.’ Now decide what answer I should take back to the one who sent me.”

“but when they turned to the LORD God of Israel in their distress and sought him, he was found by them.

When the enemies of Judah and Benjamin heard that the returned exiles[fn] were building a temple for the LORD, the God of Israel,

And our enemies said, “They won’t realize it[fn] until we’re among them and can kill them and stop the work.”

So you handed them over to their enemies,

who oppressed them.

In their time of distress, they cried out to you,

and you heard from heaven.

In your abundant compassion

you gave them deliverers, who rescued them

from the power of their enemies.

“For my people and I have been sold to destruction, death, and annihilation. If we had merely been sold as male and female slaves, I would have kept silent. Indeed, the trouble wouldn’t be worth burdening the king.”

Esther answered, “The adversary and enemy is this evil Haman.”

Haman stood terrified before the king and queen.

or “Deliver me from the enemy’s hand”

or “Redeem me from the hand of the ruthless”?

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.

Trouble and distress terrify him,

overwhelming him like a king prepared for battle.

His anger tears at me, and he harasses me.

He gnashes his teeth at me.

My enemy pierces me with his eyes.

His anger burns against me,

and he regards me as one of his enemies.

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

to a spacious and unconfined place.

Your table was spread with choice food.

which I hold in reserve for times of trouble,

for the day of warfare and battle?

His pride is in his rows of scales,

closely sealed together.

LORD, how my foes increase!

There are many who attack me.

Answer me when I call,

God, who vindicates me.[fn]

You freed me from affliction;

be gracious to me and hear my prayer.

My enemy will say, “I have triumphed over him,”

and my foes will rejoice because I am shaken.

I called to the LORD in my distress,

and I cried to my God for help.

From his temple he heard my voice,

and my cry to him reached his ears.

When evildoers came against me to devour my flesh,

my foes and my enemies stumbled and fell.

Do not give me over to the will of my foes,

for false witnesses rise up against me,

breathing violence.

You are my hiding place;

you protect me from trouble.

You surround me with joyful shouts of deliverance.Selah

Through you we drive back our foes;

through your name we trample our enemies.

But you give us victory over our foes

and let those who hate us be disgraced.

You make us retreat from the foe,

and those who hate us

have taken plunder for themselves.

But I will sing of your strength

and will joyfully proclaim

your faithful love in the morning.

For you have been a stronghold for me,

a refuge in my day of trouble.

Give us aid against the foe,

for human help is worthless.

that my lips promised

and my mouth spoke during my distress.

God, how long will the enemy mock?

Will the foe insult your name forever?

They did not remember his power shown

on the day he redeemed them from the foe,