2 See how Your enemies rage, how Your foes have reared their heads. 3 With cunning they scheme against Your people and conspire against those You cherish, 4 saying, “Come, let us erase them as a nation; may the name of Israel be remembered no more.”
Psalms 83:2–4
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1 Maccabees 3:51–53
51 Your holy place is trampled down and profaned. Your priests mourn in humiliation. (WEB) 52 Behold, the Gentiles are assembled together against us to destroy us. You know what things they imagine against us. (WEB) 53 How will we be able to stand against them, unless you help us?” (WEB)
Psalms 105:24–26
24 And the LORD made His people very fruitful, more numerous than their foes, 25 whose hearts He turned to hate His people, to conspire against His servants. 26 He sent Moses His servant, and Aaron, whom He had chosen.
Psalms 139:19–21
19 O God, that You would slay the wicked— away from me, you bloodthirsty men— 20 who speak of You deceitfully; Your enemies take Your name in vain. 21 Do I not hate those who hate You, O LORD, and detest those who rise against You?
Psalms 69:25–27
25 May their place be deserted; let there be no one to dwell in their tents. 26 For they persecute the one You struck and recount the pain of those You wounded. 27 Add iniquity to their iniquity; let them not share in Your righteousness.
Psalms 74:22–23
22 Rise up, O God; defend Your cause! Remember how the fool mocks You all day long. 23 Do not disregard the clamor of Your adversaries, the uproar of Your enemies that ascends continually.
Lamentations 3:65–66
65 Put a veil of anguish over their hearts; may Your curse be upon them! 66 You will pursue them in anger and exterminate them from under Your heavens, O LORD.
Nehemiah 4:3–5
3 Then Tobiah the Ammonite, who was beside him, said, “If even a fox were to climb up on what they are building, it would break down their wall of stones!” 4 Hear us, O God, for we are despised. Turn their scorn back upon their own heads, and let them be taken as… 5 …
Lamentations 3:60–62
60 You have seen all their malice, all their plots against me. 61 O LORD, You have heard their insults, all their plots against me— 62 the slander and murmuring of my assailants against me all day long.
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