Caravaggio, Saint Jerome Writing (c. 1605), Galleria Borghese. Public domain.
6 verses in the King James Version. Word study for “enemy” →
Go not forth into the field, nor walk by the way; for the sword of the enemy and fear is on every side.
The LORD said, Verily it shall be well with thy remnant; verily I will cause the enemy to entreat thee well in the time of evil and in the time of affliction.
I will scatter them as with an east wind before the enemy; I will shew them the back, and not the face, in the day of their calamity.
All thy lovers have forgotten thee; they seek thee not; for I have wounded thee with the wound of an enemy, with the chastisement of a cruel one, for the multitude of thine iniquity; because thy sins were increased.
Thus saith the LORD ; Refrain thy voice from weeping, and thine eyes from tears: for thy work shall be rewarded, saith the LORD ; and they shall come again from the land of the enemy.
Thus saith the LORD ; Behold, I will give Pharaoh-hophra king of Egypt into the hand of his enemies, and into the hand of them that seek his life; as I gave Zedekiah king of Judah into the hand of Nebuchadrezzar king of Babylon, his enemy, and that sought his life.
