Bible Verses About War

You make us a reproach to our neighbors, a scoffing and a derision to those who are around us.

You make us a byword among the nations, a shaking of the head among the peoples.

All day long my dishonor is before me, and shame covers my face,

At the taunt of one who reproaches and verbally abuses, because of the enemy and the avenger.

Come, see the LORD’s works, what desolations he has made in the earth.

He makes wars cease to the end of the earth. He breaks the bow, and shatters the spear. He burns the chariots in the fire.

For, behold, the kings assembled themselves, they passed by together.

They saw it, then they were amazed. They were dismayed. They hurried away.

Trembling took hold of them there, pain, as of a woman in travail.

With the east wind, you break the ships of Tarshish.

His mouth was smooth as butter, but his heart was war. His words were softer than oil, yet they were drawn swords.

God, you have rejected us. You have broken us down. You have been angry. Restore us, again.

You have made the land tremble. You have torn it. Mend its fractures, for it quakes.

You have shown your people hard things. You have made us drink the wine that makes us stagger.

Rebuke the wild animal of the reeds, the multitude of the bulls, with the calves of the peoples. Being humbled, may it bring bars of silver. Scatter the nations that delight in war.

There he broke the flaming arrows of the bow, the shield, and the sword, and the weapons of war. Selah.

He struck his adversaries backward. He put them to a perpetual reproach.

God, the nations have come into your inheritance. They have defiled your holy temple. They have laid Jerusalem in heaps.

They have given the dead bodies of your servants to be food for the birds of the sky, the flesh of your holy ones to the animals of the earth.

Their blood they have shed like water around Jerusalem. There was no one to bury them.

Why should the nations say, “Where is their God?” Let it be known among the nations, before our eyes, that vengeance for your servants’ blood is being poured out.

He turned their heart to hate his people, to conspire against his servants.

My soul has had her dwelling too long with him who hates peace.

I am for peace, but when I speak, they are for war.

Happy shall he be, who takes and dashes your little ones against the rock.