Bible Verses About War

Where no counsell is, the people fall: but where many counsellers are, there is health.

Establish the thoughtes by counsell: and by counsell make warre.

A wise man goeth vp into the citie of the mightie, and casteth downe the strength of the confidence thereof.

The horse is prepared against the day of battell: but saluation is of the Lord.

For with counsel thou shalt enterprise thy warre, and in the multitude of them that can giue counsell, is health.

A time to loue, and a time to hate: a time of warre, and a time of peace.

Man is not lorde ouer the spirit to retaine the spirite: neither hath hee power in the day of death, nor deliuerance in the battell, neither shall wickednesse deliuer the possessers thereof.

A litle citie and fewe men in it, and a great King came against it, and compassed it about, and builded fortes against it.

And there was founde therein a poore and wise man, and he deliuered the citie by his wisedome: but none remembred this poore man.

Then said I, Better is wisdome then strength: yet the wisedome of the poore is despised, and his wordes are not heard.

The wordes of the wise are more heard in quietnes, then the crye of him that ruleth among fooles.

Better is wisedome then weapons of warre: but one sinner destroyeth much good.

They all handle the sworde, and are expert in warre, euery one hath his sword vpon his thigh for the feare by night.

Your land is waste: your cities are burnt with fire: strangers deuoure your lande in your presence, and it is desolate like the ouerthrowe of strangers.

And he shall iudge among the nations, and rebuke many people: they shall breake their swords also into mattocks, and their speares into siethes: nation shall not lift vp a sworde against nation, neither shall they learne to fight any more.

The people shalbe oppressed one of another, and euery one by his neighbour: the children shall presume against the ancient, and the vile against the honourable.

Thy men shall fall by the sworde, and thy strength in the battell.

Then shall her gates mourne and lament, and she, being desolate, shall sit vpon the ground.

Now will I sing to my beloued a song of my beloued to his vineyarde, My beloued had a vineyarde in a very fruitefull hill,

And hee hedged it, and gathered out the stones of it, and he planted it with the best plants, and hee builte a towre in the middes thereof, and made a wine presse therein: then hee looked that it should bring foorth grapes: but it brought foorth wilde grapes.

Now therefore, O inhabitants of Ierusalem and men of Iudah, iudge, I pray you, betweene me, and my vineyarde.

What coulde I haue done any more to my vineyard that I haue not done vnto it? why haue I looked that it should bring foorth grapes, and it bringeth foorth wilde grapes?

And nowe I will tell you what I will do to my vineyarde: I will take away the hedge thereof, and it shall be eaten vp: I will breake the wall thereof, and it shall be troden downe:

And I will laye it waste: it shall not be cut, nor digged, but briers, and thornes shall growe vp: I will also commande the cloudes that they raine no raine vpon it.

Surely the vineyard of the Lord of hostes is the house of Israel, and the men of Iudah are his pleasant plant, and hee looked for iudgement, but beholde oppression: for righteousnesse, but beholde a crying.