Psalms 53:5

Yahweh will cause your enemies who rise up against you to be struck before you. They will come out against you one way, and will flee before you seven ways.

But Yahweh is with me as an awesome mighty one. Therefore my persecutors will stumble, and they won’t prevail. They will be utterly disappointed, because they have not dealt wisely, even with an everlasting dishonor which will never be forgotten.

I will set my face against you, and you will be struck before your enemies. Those who hate you will rule over you; and you will flee when no one pursues you.

But you, Yahweh, laugh at them. You scoff at all the nations.

“ ‘As for those of you who are left, I will send a faintness into their hearts in the lands of their enemies. The sound of a driven leaf will put them to flight; and they shall flee, as one flees from the sword. They will fall when no one pursues.

The Lord will laugh at him, for he sees that his day is coming.

But those who seek my soul to destroy it shall go into the lower parts of the earth.

What the wicked fear, will overtake them, but the desire of the righteous will be granted.

The wicked flee when no one pursues; but the righteous are as bold as a lion.

Let them be disappointed who persecute me, but let not me be disappointed. Let them be dismayed, but don’t let me be dismayed. Bring on them the day of evil, and destroy them with double destruction.

but having suffered before and been shamefully treated, as you know, at Philippi, we grew bold in our God to tell you the Good News of God in much conflict.

Among these nations you will find no ease, and there will be no rest for the sole of your foot; but Yahweh will give you there a trembling heart, failing of eyes, and pining of soul.

So about three thousand men of the people went up there, and they fled before the men of Ai.

The raiders came out of the camp of the Philistines in three companies: one company turned to the way that leads to Ophrah, to the land of Shual;

Now Yahweh’s Spirit departed from Saul, and an evil spirit from Yahweh troubled him.

When Saul saw that he behaved himself very wisely, he stood in awe of him.

Saul was even more afraid of David; and Saul was David’s enemy continually.

Samuel said to Saul, “Why have you disturbed me, to bring me up?” Saul answered, “I am very distressed; for the Philistines make war against me, and God has departed from me, and answers me no more, by prophets, or by dreams. Therefore I have called you, that you may make known to me what I shall do.”

“When your people Israel are struck down before the enemy, because they have sinned against you; if they turn again to you, and confess your name, and pray and make supplication to you in this house;

Therefore they arose and fled in the twilight, and left their tents, and their horses, and their donkeys, even the camp as it was, and fled for their life.

He will fly away as a dream, and will not be found. Yes, he will be chased away like a vision of the night.

He draws it out, and it comes out of his body. Yes, the glittering point comes out of his liver. Terrors are on him.

Even though I walk through the valley of the shadow of death, I will fear no evil, for you are with me. Your rod and your staff, they comfort me.

Yes, no one who waits for you will be shamed. They will be shamed who deal treacherously without cause.

For I said, “Don’t let them gloat over me, or exalt themselves over me when my foot slips.”

You make us turn back from the adversary. Those who hate us take plunder for themselves.

Then the Lord awakened as one out of sleep, like a mighty man who shouts by reason of wine.

Let them be disappointed and dismayed forever. Yes, let them be confounded and perish;

You shall not be afraid of the terror by night, nor of the arrow that flies by day,

Let my adversaries be clothed with dishonor. Let them cover themselves with their own shame as with a robe.

He will not be afraid of evil news. His heart is steadfast, trusting in Yahweh.

I lift up my eyes to you, you who sit in the heavens.

I also will laugh at your disaster. I will mock when calamity overtakes you,

Don’t go out into the field or walk by the way; for the sword of the enemy and terror are on every side.

The roads to Zion mourn, because no one comes to the solemn assembly. All her gates are desolate. Her priests sigh. Her virgins are afflicted, and she herself is in bitterness.

I will lay the dead bodies of the children of Israel before their idols. I will scatter your bones around your altars.

It shall be, when they ask you, ‘Why do you sigh?’ that you shall say, ‘Because of the news, for it comes! Every heart will melt, all hands will be feeble, every spirit will faint, and all knees will be weak as water. Behold, it comes, and it shall be done, says the Lord Yahweh.’ ”

If it happens, our God whom we serve is able to deliver us from the burning fiery furnace; and he will deliver us out of your hand, O king.

I will remove those who grieve about the appointed feasts from you. They are a burden and a reproach to you.

Therefore don’t be afraid of them, for there is nothing covered that will not be revealed; and hidden that will not be known.

Therefore they stayed there a long time, speaking boldly in the Lord, who testified to the word of his grace, granting signs and wonders to be done by their hands.

For when they are saying, “Peace and safety,” then sudden destruction will come on them, like birth pains on a pregnant woman. Then they will in no way escape.

Behold, you have driven me out today from the surface of the ground. I will be hidden from your face, and I will be a fugitive and a wanderer in the earth. Whoever finds me will kill me.”

They traveled, and a terror of God was on the cities that were around them, and they didn’t pursue the sons of Jacob.

“ ‘Any man of the house of Israel, or of the strangers who live as foreigners among them, who eats any kind of blood, I will set my face against that soul who eats blood, and will cut him off from among his people.

Yahweh will cause you to be struck before your enemies. You will go out one way against them, and will flee seven ways before them. You will be tossed back and forth among all the kingdoms of the earth.

The men of Ai struck about thirty-six men of them. They chased them from before the gate even to Shebarim, and struck them at the descent. The hearts of the people melted, and became like water.

She said, “The Philistines are upon you, Samson!” He awoke out of his sleep, and said, “I will go out as at other times, and shake myself free.” But he didn’t know that Yahweh had departed from him.

Then one of the young men answered, and said, “Behold, I have seen a son of Jesse the Bethlehemite who is skillful in playing, a mighty man of valor, a man of war, prudent in speech, and a handsome person; and Yahweh is with him.”

If indeed you will magnify yourselves against me, and plead against me my reproach,

Terrors overtake him like waters. A storm steals him away in the night.

Let them be disappointed and confounded who seek my soul. Let those who desire my ruin be turned back in disgrace.

Let my accusers be disappointed and consumed. Let them be covered with disgrace and scorn who want to harm me.

If I had said, “I will speak thus”; behold, I would have betrayed the generation of your children.

You put away all the wicked of the earth like dross. Therefore I love your testimonies.

Let them be disappointed and turned backward, all those who hate Zion.

I will clothe his enemies with shame, but on himself, his crown will shine.”

“As when one plows and breaks up the earth, our bones are scattered at the mouth of Sheol.”

Your silver has become dross, your wine mixed with water.

It is he who sits above the circle of the earth, and its inhabitants are like grasshoppers; who stretches out the heavens like a curtain, and spreads them out like a tent to dwell in,

Their nobles send their little ones to the waters. They come to the cisterns, and find no water. They return with their vessels empty. They are disappointed and confounded, and cover their heads.

For Yahweh says, ‘Behold, I will make you a terror to yourself and to all your friends. They will fall by the sword of their enemies, and your eyes will see it. I will give all Judah into the hand of the king of Babylon, and he will carry them captive to Babylon, and will kill them with the sword.

Yahweh’s anger has scattered them. He will not pay attention to them any more. They didn’t respect the persons of the priests. They didn’t favor the elders.

He caused me to pass by them all around: and behold, there were very many in the open valley; and behold, they were very dry.

My God will cast them away, because they didn’t listen to him; and they will be wanderers among the nations.

When you hear of wars and disturbances, don’t be terrified, for these things must happen first, but the end won’t come immediately.”

Now when they saw the boldness of Peter and John, and had perceived that they were unlearned and ignorant men, they marveled. They recognized that they had been with Jesus.

There was a trembling in the camp, in the field, and among all the people; the garrison, and the raiders, also trembled; and the earth quaked, so there was an exceedingly great trembling.

They went after them to the Jordan; and behold, all the path was full of garments and equipment which the Syrians had cast away in their haste. The messengers returned, and told the king.

Those who hate you will be clothed with shame. The tent of the wicked will be no more.”

“Don’t say, ‘A conspiracy!’ concerning all about which this people say, ‘A conspiracy!’ neither fear their threats, nor be terrorized.

Men will call them rejected silver, because Yahweh has rejected them.”

“ ‘ “I will make the counsel of Judah and Jerusalem void in this place. I will cause them to fall by the sword before their enemies, and by the hand of those who seek their life. I will give their dead bodies to be food for the birds of the sky and for the animals of the earth.

The men were afraid, because they were brought to Joseph’s house; and they said, “Because of the money that was returned in our sacks the first time, we’re brought in; that he may seek occasion against us, attack us, and seize us as slaves, along with our donkeys.”

When Joseph’s brothers saw that their father was dead, they said, “It may be that Joseph will hate us, and will fully pay us back for all the evil which we did to him.”

When Pharaoh came near, the children of Israel lifted up their eyes, and behold, the Egyptians were marching after them; and they were very afraid. The children of Israel cried out to Yahweh.

Moab was very afraid of the people, because they were many. Moab was distressed because of the children of Israel.

Saul was afraid of David, because Yahweh was with him, and had departed from Saul.

When the servant of the man of God had risen early, and gone out, behold, an army with horses and chariots was around the city. His servant said to him, “Alas, my master! What shall we do?”

A sound of terrors is in his ears. In prosperity the destroyer will come on him.

Terrors will make him afraid on every side, and will chase him at his heels.

He who sits in the heavens will laugh. The Lord will have them in derision.

There they were in great fear, for God is in the generation of the righteous.

Let those who seek after my soul be disappointed and brought to dishonor. Let those who plot my ruin be turned back and confounded.

Let them be disappointed and confounded together who rejoice at my calamity. Let them be clothed with shame and dishonor who magnify themselves against me.

Let them be disappointed and confounded together who seek after my soul to destroy it. Let them be turned backward and brought to dishonor who delight in my hurt.

But you have saved us from our adversaries, and have shamed those who hate us.

All mankind shall be afraid. They shall declare the work of God, and shall wisely ponder what he has done.

As a dream when one wakes up, so, Lord, when you awake, you will despise their fantasies.

The sinners in Zion are afraid. Trembling has seized the godless ones. Who among us can live with the devouring fire? Who among us can live with everlasting burning?

“For, behold, I have made you small among the nations, and despised among men.

He has violently taken away his tabernacle, as if it were of a garden. He has destroyed his place of assembly. Yahweh has caused solemn assembly and Sabbath to be forgotten in Zion. In the indignation of his anger, he has despised the king and the priest.

But Herod, when he heard this, said, “This is John, whom I beheaded. He has risen from the dead.”