Bible Verses About War

Thou makest us a reproach to our neighbours, A scorn and a reproach to our surrounders.

Thou makest us a simile among nations, A shaking of the head among peoples.

All the day my confusion is before me, And the shame of my face hath covered me.

Because of the voice of a reproacher and reviler, Because of an enemy and a self-avenger.

Come ye, see the works of Jehovah, Who hath done astonishing things in the earth,

Causing wars to cease, Unto the end of the earth, the bow he shivereth, And the spear He hath cut asunder, Chariots he doth burn with fire.

For, lo, the kings met, they passed by together,

They have seen--so they have marvelled, They have been troubled, they were hastened away.

Trembling hath seized them there, Pain, as of a travailing woman.

By an east wind Thou shiverest ships of Tarshish.

Sweeter than honey hath been his mouth, And his heart is war! Softer have been his words than oil, And they are drawn swords .

To the Overseer. --`Concerning the Lily of Testimony,' a secret treasure of David, to teach, in his striving with Aram-Naharaim, and with Aram-Zobah, and Joab turneth back and smiteth Edom in the valley of Salt--twelve thousand. O God, Thou hadst cast us off, Thou hadst broken us--hadst been angry! --Thou dost turn back to us.

Thou hast caused the land to tremble, Thou hast broken it, Heal its breaches, for it hath moved.

Thou hast shewn Thy people a hard thing, Thou hast caused us to drink wine of trembling.

Rebuke a beast of the reeds, a company of bulls, With calves of the peoples, Each humbling himself with pieces of silver, Scatter Thou peoples delighting in conflicts.

There he hath shivered arrows of a bow, Shield, and sword, and battle. Selah.

And He smiteth His adversaries backward, A reproach age-during He hath put on them,

A Psalm of Asaph. O God, nations have come into Thy inheritance, They have defiled Thy holy temple, They made Jerusalem become heaps,

They gave the dead bodies of Thy servants Food for the fowls of the heavens, The flesh of Thy saints For the wild beast of the earth.

They have shed their blood As water round about Jerusalem, And there is none burying.

Why do the nations say, `Where is their God?' Let be known among the nations before our eyes, The vengeance of the blood of Thy servants that is shed.

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

Too much hath my soul dwelt with him who is hating peace.

I am peace, and when I speak they are for war!

O the happiness of him who doth seize, And hath dashed thy sucklings on the rock!