100 Bible Verses About Persecution

Also they reported his good deeds before me, and uttered my words to him. And Tobiah sent letters to put me in fear.

And it came to pass at noon, that Elijah mocked them, and said, Cry aloud: for he is a god; either he is talking, or he is pursuing, or he is in a journey, or peradventure he sleepeth, and must be awaked.

That thy beloved may be delivered: save with thy right hand, and answer me.

Thine ox shall be slain before thine eyes, and thou shalt not eat thereof: thine ass shall be violently taken away from before thy face, and shall not be restored to thee: thy sheep shall be given unto thine enemies, and thou shalt have none to rescue them.

For, behold, I have made thee this day a defenced city, and an iron pillar, and brasen walls against the whole land, against the kings of Judah, against the princes thereof, against the priests thereof, and against the people of the land.

He turned their heart to hate his people, to deal subtilly with his servants.

If it had not been the Lord who was on our side, when men rose up against us:

Thou hast shewed thy people hard things: thou hast made us to drink the wine of astonishment.

They stoop, they bow down together; they could not deliver the burden, but themselves are gone into captivity.

And I, behold, I will harden the hearts of the Egyptians, and they shall follow them: and I will get me honour upon Pharaoh, and upon all his host, upon his chariots, and upon his horsemen.

And the Egyptians evil entreated us, and afflicted us, and laid upon us hard bondage:

Let the enemy persecute my soul, and take it; yea, let him tread down my life upon the earth, and lay mine honour in the dust. Selah.

How many are the days of thy servant? when wilt thou execute judgment on them that persecute me?

And I will for this afflict the seed of David, but not for ever.

They gather themselves together, they hide themselves, they mark my steps, when they wait for my soul.

And they made their lives bitter with hard bondage, in morter, and in brick, and in all manner of service in the field: all their service, wherein they made them serve, was with rigour.

But with righteousness shall he judge the poor, and reprove with equity for the meek of the earth: and he shall smite the earth with the rod of his mouth, and with the breath of his lips shall he slay the wicked.

And Ahab told Jezebel all that Elijah had done, and withal how he had slain all the prophets with the sword.

Remember, Lord, the reproach of thy servants; how I do bear in my bosom the reproach of all the mighty people;

And they shall be gathered together, as prisoners are gathered in the pit, and shall be shut up in the prison, and after many days shall they be visited.

And they said, Stand back. And they said again, This one fellow came in to sojourn, and he will needs be a judge: now will we deal worse with thee, than with them. And they pressed sore upon the man, even Lot, and came near to break the door.

Remember this, that the enemy hath reproached, O Lord, and that the foolish people have blasphemed thy name.

I will send my fear before thee, and will destroy all the people to whom thou shalt come, and I will make all thine enemies turn their backs unto thee.

And it was told the Gazites, saying, Samson is come hither. And they compassed him in, and laid wait for him all night in the gate of the city, and were quiet all the night, saying, In the morning, when it is day, we shall kill him.

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

That make a man an offender for a word, and lay a snare for him that reproveth in the gate, and turn aside the just for a thing of nought.

Let them curse, but bless thou: when they arise, let them be ashamed; but let thy servant rejoice.

Saul also and his men went to seek him. And they told David: wherefore he came down into a rock, and abode in the wilderness of Maon. And when Saul heard that, he pursued after David in the wilderness of Maon.

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

Yea, for thy sake are we killed all the day long; we are counted as sheep for the slaughter.

Yea, they opened their mouth wide against me, and said, Aha, aha, our eye hath seen it.

And Moses spake so unto the children of Israel: but they hearkened not unto Moses for anguish of spirit, and for cruel bondage.

Because that he remembered not to shew mercy, but persecuted the poor and needy man, that he might even slay the broken in heart.

For all the wells which his father’s servants had digged in the days of Abraham his father, the Philistines had stopped them, and filled them with earth.

Hear the word of the Lord, ye that tremble at his word; Your brethren that hated you, that cast you out for my name’s sake, said, Let the Lord be glorified: but he shall appear to your joy, and they shall be ashamed.

And the men of Shechem set liers in wait for him in the top of the mountains, and they robbed all that came along that way by them: and it was told Abimelech.

Arise, O God, plead thine own cause: remember how the foolish man reproacheth thee daily.

Thy holy cities are a wilderness, Zion is a wilderness, Jerusalem a desolation.

Therefore on that day he called him Jerubbaal, saying, Let Baal plead against him, because he hath thrown down his altar.

And they journeyed: and the terror of God was upon the cities that were round about them, and they did not pursue after the sons of Jacob.

Neither let Hezekiah make you trust in the Lord, saying, The Lord will surely deliver us: this city shall not be delivered into the hand of the king of Assyria.

And what he did unto the army of Egypt, unto their horses, and to their chariots; how he made the water of the Red sea to overflow them as they pursued after you, and how the Lord hath destroyed them unto this day;

And all the men of might, even seven thousand, and craftsmen and smiths a thousand, all that were strong and apt for war, even them the king of Babylon brought captive to Babylon.

He croucheth, and humbleth himself, that the poor may fall by his strong ones.

They prevented me in the day of my calamity: but the Lord was my stay.

As for the head of those that compass me about, let the mischief of their own lips cover them.

As God liveth, who hath taken away my judgment; and the Almighty, who hath vexed my soul;

Now when the copy of king Artaxerxes’ letter was read before Rehum, and Shimshai the scribe, and their companions, they went up in haste to Jerusalem unto the Jews, and made them to cease by force and power.

Then the king of Israel said, Take ye Micaiah, and carry him back to Amon the governor of the city, and to Joash the king’s son;

There shall no evil happen to the just: but the wicked shall be filled with mischief.

The Lord executeth righteousness and judgment for all that are oppressed.

And Abimelech came unto the tower, and fought against it, and went hard unto the door of the tower to burn it with fire.

They that hate me without a cause are more than the hairs of mine head: they that would destroy me, being mine enemies wrongfully, are mighty: then I restored that which I took not away.

Let all mine enemies be ashamed and sore vexed: let them return and be ashamed suddenly.

Fury is not in me: who would set the briers and thorns against me in battle? I would go through them, I would burn them together.

An ungodly man diggeth up evil: and in his lips there is as a burning fire.

According to their deeds, accordingly he will repay, fury to his adversaries, recompence to his enemies; to the islands he will repay recompence.

O Assyrian, the rod of mine anger, and the staff in their hand is mine indignation.

Many bulls have compassed me: strong bulls of Bashan have beset me round.

Thou feedest them with the bread of tears; and givest them tears to drink in great measure.

All this is come upon us; yet have we not forgotten thee, neither have we dealt falsely in thy covenant.

In that day the Lord with his sore and great and strong sword shall punish leviathan the piercing serpent, even leviathan that crooked serpent; and he shall slay the dragon that is in the sea.

Then they cry unto the Lord in their trouble, and he saveth them out of their distresses.

Judge me, O God, and plead my cause against an ungodly nation: O deliver me from the deceitful and unjust man.

For through the voice of the Lord shall the Assyrian be beaten down, which smote with a rod.

The wicked are overthrown, and are not: but the house of the righteous shall stand.

And Mordecai told him of all that had happened unto him, and of the sum of the money that Haman had promised to pay to the king’s treasuries for the Jews, to destroy them.

They have gaped upon me with their mouth; they have smitten me upon the cheek reproachfully; they have gathered themselves together against me.

But the midwives feared God, and did not as the king of Egypt commanded them, but saved the men children alive.

The land shall be utterly emptied, and utterly spoiled: for the Lord hath spoken this word.

He shall reward evil unto mine enemies: cut them off in thy truth.

When the waves of death compassed me, the floods of ungodly men made me afraid;

Therefore thus saith the Lord God of hosts, O my people that dwellest in Zion, be not afraid of the Assyrian: he shall smite thee with a rod, and shall lift up his staff against thee, after the manner of Egypt.

Let me not be ashamed, O Lord; for I have called upon thee: let the wicked be ashamed, and let them be silent in the grave.

And the Midianites sold him into Egypt unto Potiphar, an officer of Pharaoh’s, and captain of the guard.

Be merciful unto me, O God: for man would swallow me up; he fighting daily oppresseth me.

The man, who is the lord of the land, spake roughly to us, and took us for spies of the country.

And say unto him, Take heed, and be quiet; fear not, neither be fainthearted for the two tails of these smoking firebrands, for the fierce anger of Rezin with Syria, and of the son of Remaliah.

Then they cried unto the Lord in their trouble, and he delivered them out of their distresses.

For ye shall not go out with haste, nor go by flight: for the Lord will go before you; and the God of Israel will be your rereward.

So David and his men came to the city, and, behold, it was burned with fire; and their wives, and their sons, and their daughters, were taken captives.

And the king said, What have I to do with you, ye sons of Zeruiah? so let him curse, because the Lord hath said unto him, Curse David. Who shall then say, Wherefore hast thou done so?

He delivered me from my strong enemy, and from them which hated me: for they were too strong for me.

And the children of Israel spake unto Moses, saying, Behold, we die, we perish, we all perish.

Have all the workers of iniquity no knowledge? who eat up my people as they eat bread, and call not upon the Lord.

It is God that avengeth me, and subdueth the people under me.

But six hundred men turned and fled to the wilderness unto the rock Rimmon, and abode in the rock Rimmon four months.

Therefore shall all hands be faint, and every man’s heart shall melt:

And it shall be, that thou shalt drink of the brook; and I have commanded the ravens to feed thee there.

Wrath is cruel, and anger is outrageous; but who is able to stand before envy?

And the midwives said unto Pharaoh, Because the Hebrew women are not as the Egyptian women; for they are lively, and are delivered ere the midwives come in unto them.

For it increaseth. Thou huntest me as a fierce lion: and again thou shewest thyself marvellous upon me.

Our God shall come, and shall not keep silence: a fire shall devour before him, and it shall be very tempestuous round about him.

Did not I weep for him that was in trouble? was not my soul grieved for the poor?

For Pekah the son of Remaliah slew in Judah an hundred and twenty thousand in one day, which were all valiant men; because they had forsaken the Lord God of their fathers.

And made Israel to pass through the midst of it: for his mercy endureth for ever:

Then they had swallowed us up quick, when their wrath was kindled against us:

Judge me, O Lord my God, according to thy righteousness; and let them not rejoice over me.

And ye shall perish among the heathen, and the land of your enemies shall eat you up.

Shall the throne of iniquity have fellowship with thee, which frameth mischief by a law?