A. The Psalmist's prayers & curses against his enemies& for the Lord to protect His people from them:

Key passages psa 3:all 5:8-12 6:7-10 7:all 9:3-6 9 10 13-20 10:all

more key passages 11:all 12:all 13:all 17:4-15 18:37-50 21:7-13 23:5

more key passages 27:1-6 11-14 28:all 31:all 34:1-7 35:all 37:all

more key passages 38:12-22 40:13-17 41:5-11 43:all 52:all 53:1-5 54:all

more key passages 55:1-9 18 23 56:all 57:1-6 58:all 59:all 62:1-8

more key passages 63:8-11 68:1-3 69:4

more key passages 83:1-4 12-18 94:1-7 16 21-23 105:12-15 109:all

more key passages 118:5-14 119:84 124:all 125:3-5 129:1-6 139:19-22

more key passages 140:all 143:3 4 9-12 144:6-11 149:5-9.

Other prayers:

JER 15:15. O LORD, thou knowest: remember me, and visit me, and revenge me of my persecutors; take me not away in thy longsuffering: know that for thy sake I have suffered rebuke.

JER 17:18. Let them be confounded that persecute me, but let not me be confounded: let them be dismayed, but let not me be dismayed: bring upon them the day of evil, and destroy them with double destruction.

JER 18:18. Then said they, Come and let us devise devices against Jeremiah; for the law shall not perish from the priest, nor counsel from the wise, nor the word from the prophet. Come, and let us smite him with the tongue, and let us not give heed to any of his words.

JER 18:19. Give heed to me, O LORD, and hearken to the voice of them that contend with me.

JER 18:20. Shall evil be recompensed for good? for they have digged a pit for my soul. Remember that I stood before thee to speak good for them, and to turn away thy wrath from them.

JER 18:21. Therefore deliver up their children to the famine, and pour out their blood by the force of the sword; and let their wives be bereaved of their children, and be widows; and let their men be put to death; let their young men be slain by the sword in battle.

JER 18:22. Let a cry be heard from their houses, when thou shalt bring a troop suddenly upon them: for they have digged a pit to take me, and hid snares for my feet.

JER 18:23. Yet, LORD, thou knowest all their counsel against me to slay me: forgive not their iniquity, neither blot out their sin from thy sight, but let them be overthrown before thee; deal thus with them in the time of thine anger.

LAM 3:59. O LORD, thou hast seen my wrong: judge thou my cause.

LAM 3:60. Thou hast seen all their vengeance and all their imaginations against me.

LAM 3:61. Thou hast heard their reproach, O LORD, and all their imaginations against me;

LAM 3:62. The lips of those that rose up against me, and their device against me all the day.

LAM 3:63. Behold their sitting down, and their rising up; I am their musick.

LAM 3:64. Render unto them a recompence, O LORD, according to the work of their hands.

LAM 3:65. Give them sorrow of heart, thy curse unto them.

LAM 3:66. Persecute and destroy them in anger from under the heavens of the LORD.

Prayers for God to stop their evil devices:

PSA 10:2. The wicked in his pride doth persecute the poor: let them be taken in the devices that they have imagined.

PSA 17:13. Arise, O LORD, disappoint him, cast him down: deliver my soul from the wicked, which is thy sword:

PSA 21:11. For they intended evil against thee: they imagined a mischievous device, which they are not able to perform.

PSA 21:12. Therefore shalt thou make them turn their back, when thou shalt make ready thine arrows upon thy strings against the face of them.

PSA 27:2. When the wicked, even mine enemies and my foes, came upon me to eat up my flesh, they stumbled and fell.

PSA 27:12. Deliver me not over unto the will of mine enemies: for false witnesses are risen up against me, and such as breathe out cruelty.

PSA 31:4. Pull me out of the net that they have laid privily for me: for thou art my strength.

PSA 33:10. The LORD bringeth the counsel of the heathen to nought: he maketh the devices of the people of none effect.

PSA 64:1. Hear my voice, O God, in my prayer: preserve my life from fear of the enemy.

PSA 64:2. Hide me from the secret counsel of the wicked; from the insurrection of the workers of iniquity:

PSA 64:3. Who whet their tongue like a sword, and bend their bows to shoot their arrows, even bitter words:

PSA 64:4. That they may shoot in secret at the perfect: suddenly do they shoot at him, and fear not.

PSA 64:5. They encourage themselves in an evil matter: they commune of laying snares privily; they say, Who shall see them?

PSA 64:6. They search out iniquities; they accomplish a diligent search: both the inward thought of every one of them, and the heart, is deep.

PSA 64:7. But God shall shoot at them with an arrow; suddenly shall they be wounded.

PSA 64:8. So they shall make their own tongue to fall upon themselves: all that see them shall flee away.

PSA 64:9. And all men shall fear, and shall declare the work of God; for they shall wisely consider of his doing.

PSA 64:10. The righteous shall be glad in the LORD, and shall trust in him; and all the upright in heart shall glory.

PSA 70:2. Let them be ashamed and confounded that seek after my soul: let them be turned backward, and put to confusion, that desire my hurt.

PSA 70:3. Let them be turned back for a reward of their shame that say, Aha, aha.

PSA 71:13. Let them be confounded and consumed that are adversaries to my soul; let them be covered with reproach and dishonour that seek my hurt.

PSA 119:126. It is time for thee, LORD, to work: for they have made void thy law.

PSA 120:2. Deliver my soul, O LORD, from lying lips, and from a deceitful tongue.

B. God's judgment on persecutors:

DEU 30:7. And the LORD thy God will put all these curses upon thine enemies, and on them that hate thee, which persecuted thee.

2CH 36:16. But they mocked the messengers of God, and despised his words, and misused his prophets, until the wrath of the LORD arose against his people, till there was no remedy.

PSA 7:11. God judgeth the righteous, and God is angry with the wicked every day.

PSA 7:12. If he turn not, he will whet his sword; he hath bent his bow, and made it ready.

PSA 7:13. He hath also prepared for him the instruments of death; he ordaineth his arrows against the persecutors.

PSA 7:14. Behold, he travaileth with iniquity, and hath conceived mischief, and brought forth falsehood.

PSA 7:15. He made a pit, and digged it, and is fallen into the ditch which he made.

PSA 7:16. His mischief shall return upon his own head, and his violent dealing shall come down upon his own pate.

PSA 11:2. For, lo, the wicked bend their bow, they make ready their arrow upon the string, that they may privily shoot at the upright in heart.

PSA 11:5. The LORD trieth the righteous: but the wicked and him that loveth violence his soul hateth.

PSA 11:6. Upon the wicked he shall rain snares, fire and brimstone, and an horrible tempest: this shall be the portion of their cup.

PSA 37:12. The wicked plotteth against the just, and gnasheth upon him with his teeth.

PSA 37:13. The LORD shall laugh at him: for he seeth that his day is coming.

PSA 37:14. The wicked have drawn out the sword, and have bent their bow, to cast down the poor and needy, and to slay such as be of upright conversation.

PSA 37:15. Their sword shall enter into their own heart, and their bows shall be broken.

PSA 37:17. For the arms of the wicked shall be broken: but the LORD upholdeth the righteous.

PSA 105:14. He suffered no man to do them wrong: yea, he reproved kings for their sakes;

PSA 105:15. Saying, Touch not mine anointed, and do my prophets no harm.

ISA 54:15. Behold, they shall surely gather together, but not by me: whosoever shall gather together against thee shall fall for thy sake.

JER 20:2. Then Pashur smote Jeremiah the prophet, and put him in the stocks that were in the high gate of Benjamin, which was by the house of the LORD.

JER 20:3. And it came to pass on the morrow, that Pashur brought forth Jeremiah out of the stocks. Then said Jeremiah unto him, The LORD hath not called thy name Pashur, but Magormissabib.

JER 20:4. For thus saith the LORD, Behold, I will make thee a terror to thyself, and to all thy friends: and they shall fall by the sword of their enemies, and thine eyes shall behold it: and I will give all Judah into the hand of the king of Babylon, and he shall carry them captive into Babylon, and shall slay them with the sword.

JER 20:11. But the LORD is with me as a mighty terrible one: therefore my persecutors shall stumble, and they shall not prevail: they shall be greatly ashamed; for they shall not prosper: their everlasting confusion shall never be forgotten.

LUK 11:49. Therefore also said the wisdom of God, I will send them prophets and apostles, and some of them they shall slay and persecute:

LUK 11:50. That the blood of all the prophets, which was shed from the foundation of the world, may be required of this generation;

LUK 11:51. From the blood of Abel unto the blood of Zacharias which perished between the altar and the temple: verily I say unto you, It shall be required of this generation.

1TH 2:15. Who both killed the Lord Jesus, and their own prophets, and have persecuted us; and they please not God, and are contrary to all men:

1TH 2:16. Forbidding us to speak to the Gentiles that they might be saved, to fill up their sins alway: for the wrath is come upon them to the uttermost.

2TH 1:6. Seeing it is a righteous thing with God to recompense tribulation to them that trouble you;

2TH 1:7. And to you who are troubled rest with us, when the Lord Jesus shall be revealed from heaven with his mighty angels,

2TH 1:8. In flaming fire taking vengeance on them that know not God, and that obey not the gospel of our Lord Jesus Christ:

2TH 1:9. Who shall be punished with everlasting destruction from the presence of the Lord, and from the glory of his power;

REV 16:1. And I heard a great voice out of the temple saying to the seven angels, Go your ways, and pour out the vials of the wrath of God upon the earth.

REV 16:2. And the first went, and poured out his vial upon the earth; and there fell a noisome and grievous sore upon the men which had the mark of the beast, and upon them which worshipped his image.

REV 16:3. And the second angel poured out his vial upon the sea; and it became as the blood of a dead man: and every living soul died in the sea.

REV 16:4. And the third angel poured out his vial upon the rivers and fountains of waters; and they became blood.

REV 16:5. And I heard the angel of the waters say, Thou art righteous, O Lord, which art, and wast, and shalt be, because thou hast judged thus.

REV 16:6. For they have shed the blood of saints and prophets, and thou hast given them blood to drink; for they are worthy.

REV 18:2. And he cried mightily with a strong voice, saying, Babylon the great is fallen, is fallen, and is become the habitation of devils, and the hold of every foul spirit, and a cage of every unclean and hateful bird.

REV 18:4. And I heard another voice from heaven, saying, Come out of her, my people, that ye be not partakers of her sins, and that ye receive not of her plagues.

REV 18:5. For her sins have reached unto heaven, and God hath remembered her iniquities.

REV 18:6. Reward her even as she rewarded you, and double unto her double according to her works: in the cup which she hath filled fill to her double.

REV 18:7. How much she hath glorified herself, and lived deliciously, so much torment and sorrow give her: for she saith in her heart, I sit a queen, and am no widow, and shall see no sorrow.