The king will capture all his enemies; he will capture everyone who hates him.

He will destroy them like a blazing fire when he appears. The LORD will devour them in his anger, and fire will consume them.

But the wicked will die; the enemies of the LORD will vanish like wild flowers; they will disappear like smoke.

God rises up and scatters his enemies. Those who hate him run away in defeat.

As smoke is blown away, so he drives them off; as wax melts in front of the fire, so do the wicked perish in God's presence.

Those who abandon you will certainly perish; you will destroy those who are unfaithful to you.

You crushed the monster Rahab and killed it; with your mighty strength you defeated your enemies.

So may all your enemies die like that, O LORD, but may your friends shine like the rising sun! And there was peace in the land for forty years.

Now, as for those enemies of mine who did not want me to be their king, bring them here and kill them in my presence!' "

and he will give relief to you who suffer and to us as well. He will do this when the Lord Jesus appears from heaven with his mighty angels,

They will suffer the punishment of eternal destruction, separated from the presence of the Lord and from his glorious might,

But evil people are not like this at all; they are like straw that the wind blows away.

Do not kill them, O God, or my people may forget. Scatter them by your strength and defeat them, O Lord, our protector.

Rebuke Egypt, that wild animal in the reeds; rebuke the nations, that herd of bulls with their calves, until they all bow down and offer you their silver. Scatter those people who love to make war!

I will bring war on you and scatter you in foreign lands. Your land will be deserted, and your cities left in ruins.

Whenever the Covenant Box started out, Moses would say, "Arise, LORD; scatter your enemies and put to flight those who hate you!"

"The LORD will scatter you among all the nations, from one end of the earth to the other, and there you will serve gods made of wood and stone, gods that neither you nor your ancestors have ever worshiped before.

The nations advance like rushing waves, but God reprimands them and they retreat, driven away like dust on a mountainside, like straw in a whirlwind.

A third of your people will die from sickness and hunger in the city; a third will be cut down by swords outside the city; and I will scatter the last third to the winds and pursue them with a sword.

Then I will say to them, 'I never knew you. Get away from me, you wicked people!'

Some will be killed by the sword, and others will be taken as prisoners to all countries; and the heathen will trample over Jerusalem until their time is up.