Psalm 9:6
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6 The enemies have vanished in everlasting ruins;
their cities you have rooted out;
the very memory of them has perished.(A)
Micah 7:8
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Penitence and Trust in God
8 Do not rejoice over me, my enemies;[a]
when I fall, I shall rise;
when I sit in darkness,
the Lord will be a light to me.(A)
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- 7.8 Heb enemy
Isaiah 14:22-23
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22 I will rise up against them, says the Lord of hosts, and will cut off from Babylon name and remnant, offspring and posterity, says the Lord.(A) 23 And I will make it a possession of the screech owl[a] and pools of water, and I will sweep it with the broom of destruction, says the Lord of hosts.(B)
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- 14.23 Meaning of Heb uncertain
Exodus 14:13
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13 But Moses said to the people, “Do not be afraid, stand firm, and see the deliverance that the Lord will accomplish for you today, for the Egyptians whom you see today you shall never see again.(A)
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Revelation 20:2
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2 He seized the dragon, that ancient serpent, who is the devil and Satan, and bound him for a thousand years(A)
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1 Corinthians 15:54-57
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54 When this perishable body puts on imperishability and this mortal body puts on immortality, then the saying that is written will be fulfilled:
“Death has been swallowed up in victory.”(A)
55 “Where, O death, is your victory?
Where, O death, is your sting?”
56 The sting of death is sin, and the power of sin is the law.(B) 57 But thanks be to God, who gives us the victory through our Lord Jesus Christ.
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1 Corinthians 15:26
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26 The last enemy to be destroyed is death.(A)
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Nahum 1:9-13
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9 Why do you plot against the Lord?
He will make an end;
no adversary will rise up twice.(A)
10 Like thorns they are entangled;
like drunkards they are drunk;
they are consumed like dry straw.(B)
11 From you one has gone out
who plots evil against the Lord,
one who counsels wickedness.(C)
Good News for Judah
12 Thus says the Lord:
Though they are at full strength and many,[a]
they will be cut off and pass away.
Though I have afflicted you,
I will afflict you no more.(D)
13 And now I will break off his yoke from you
and snap the bonds that bind you.(E)
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- 1.12 Meaning of Heb uncertain
Jeremiah 51:62-64
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62 and say, ‘O Lord, you yourself threatened to destroy this place so that neither humans nor animals shall live in it, and it shall be desolate forever.’(A) 63 When you finish reading this scroll, tie a stone to it, and throw it into the middle of the Euphrates,(B) 64 and say, ‘Thus shall Babylon sink, to rise no more, because of the disasters that I am bringing on her.’ ”[a]
Thus far are the words of Jeremiah.(C)
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- 51.64 Gk: Heb on her. And they shall weary themselves
Jeremiah 51:25
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25 I am against you, O destroying mountain,
says the Lord,
that destroys the whole earth;
I will stretch out my hand against you
and roll you down from the crags
and make you a burned-out mountain.(A)
Isaiah 37:26
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26 “Have you not heard
that I determined it long ago?
I planned from days of old
what now I bring to pass,
that you should make fortified cities
crash into heaps of ruins,(A)
Isaiah 14:17
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17 who made the world like a desert
and overthrew its cities,
who would not let his prisoners go home?”(A)
Isaiah 14:6-8
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6 that struck down the peoples in wrath
with unceasing blows,
that ruled the nations in anger
with unrelenting persecution.(A)
7 The whole earth is at rest and quiet;
they break forth into singing.
8 The cypresses exult over you,
the cedars of Lebanon, saying,
“Since you were laid low,
no one comes to cut us down.”(B)
Isaiah 10:24-25
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24 Therefore thus says the Lord God of hosts: “O my people who live in Zion, do not be afraid of the Assyrians when they beat you with a rod and lift up their staff against you as the Egyptians did. 25 For in a very little while my indignation will come to an end, and my anger will be directed to their destruction.”(A)
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Isaiah 10:13-14
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13 For he says:
“By the strength of my hand I have done it,
and by my wisdom, for I have understanding;
I have removed the boundaries of peoples
and have plundered their treasures;
like a bull I have brought down those who sat on thrones.(A)
14 My hand has found, like a nest,
the wealth of the peoples,
and as one gathers eggs that have been forsaken,
so I have gathered all the earth,
and there was none that moved a wing
or opened its mouth or chirped.”(B)
Isaiah 10:6-7
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6 Against a godless nation I send him,
and against the people of my wrath I command him,
to take spoil and seize plunder,
and to tread them down like the mire of the streets.(A)
7 But this is not what he intends,
nor does he have this in mind,
but it is in his heart to destroy
and to cut off nations not a few.(B)
Psalm 46:9
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9 He makes wars cease to the end of the earth;
he breaks the bow and shatters the spear;
he burns the shields with fire.(A)
Psalm 34:16
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16 The face of the Lord is against evildoers,
to cut off the remembrance of them from the earth.(A)
Psalm 8:2
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2 Out of the mouths of babes and infants
you have founded a bulwark because of your foes,
to silence the enemy and the avenger.(A)
Psalm 7:5
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5 then let the enemy pursue and overtake me,
trample my life to the ground,
and lay my soul in the dust. Selah
2 Kings 19:25
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25 Have you not heard
that I determined it long ago?
I planned from days of old
what now I bring to pass,
that you should make fortified cities
crash into heaps of ruins,(A)
1 Samuel 31:7
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7 When the men of Israel who were on the other side of the valley and those beyond the Jordan saw that the men of Israel had fled and that Saul and his sons were dead, they forsook their towns and fled, and the Philistines came and occupied them.
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1 Samuel 30:1
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David Avenges the Destruction of Ziklag
30 Now when David and his men came to Ziklag on the third day, the Amalekites had made a raid on the Negeb and on Ziklag. They had attacked Ziklag, burned it down,(A)
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Exodus 15:16
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16 Terror and dread fell upon them;
by the might of your arm, they became still as a stone
until your people, O Lord, passed by,
until the people whom you acquired passed by.(A)
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