BIBLE VERSES ON PEOPLE WHO PERSECUTE

Be blessed by these Bible verses on people who persecute:

Turn their insults back on their own heads. Give them over as plunder in a land of captivity. Do not cover up their guilt or blot out their sins from your sight, for they have thrown insults in the face of the builders.
Nehemiah 4:4-5

Do not long for the night, to drag people away from their homes. Beware of turning to evil, which you seem to prefer to affliction.
Job 36:20-21

They close up their callous hearts, and their mouths speak with arrogance.
Psalm 17:10

Repay them for their deeds and for their evil work; repay them for what their hands have done and bring back on them what they deserve.
Psalm 28:4

They do not speak peaceably, but devise false accusations against those who live quietly in the land.
Psalm 35:20

Everyone is but a breath, even those who seem secure.
Psalm 39:5

Those who want to kill me will be destroyed; they will go down to the depths of the earth. They will be given over to the sword and become food for jackals.
Psalm 63:9-10

…while the mouths of liars will be silenced.
Psalm 63:11

Do not lift your horns against heaven; do not speak so defiantly.
Psalm 75:5

Woe to those who make unjust laws, to those who issue oppressive decrees, to deprive the poor of their rights and withhold justice from the oppressed of my people, making widows their prey and robbing the fatherless.
Isaiah 10:1-2

What will you do on the day of reckoning, when disaster comes from afar? To whom will you run for help? Where will you leave your riches? Nothing will remain but to cringe among the captives or fall among the slain.
Isaiah 10:3-4

The oppressor will come to an end, and destruction will cease; the aggressor will vanish from the land.
Isaiah 16:4

Although the peoples roar like the roar of surging waters, when he rebukes them they flee far away, driven before the wind like chaff on the hills, like tumbleweed before a gale.In the evening, sudden terror! Before the morning, they are gone! This is the portion of those who loot us, the lot of those who plunder us.
Isaiah 17:13-14

But I know where you are and when you come and go and how you rage against me. Because you rage against me and because your insolence has reached my ears, I will put my hook in your nose and my bit in your mouth, and I will make you return by the way you came.
Isaiah 37:28-29

My servants will eat, but you will go hungry; my servants will drink, but you will go thirsty; my servants will rejoice, but you will be put to shame. My servants will sing out of the joy of their hearts, but you will cry out from anguish of heart and wail in brokenness of spirit. You will leave your name for my chosen ones to use in their curses; the Sovereign Lord will put you to death, but to his servants he will give another name.
Isaiah 65:13-15

Because you have scattered my flock and driven them away and have not bestowed care on them, I will bestow punishment on you for the evil you have done.
Jeremiah 23:2

All the nations who knew you are appalled at you; you have come to a horrible end and will be no more.
Ezekiel 28:19

Which of the trees of Eden can be compared with you in splendor and majesty? Yet you, too, will be brought down with the trees of Eden to the earth below; you will lie among the uncircumcised, with those killed by the sword.
Ezekiel 31:18

Renounce your sins by doing what is right, and your wickedness by being kind to the oppressed. It may be that then your prosperity will continue.
Daniel 4:27

Woe to those who plan iniquity, to those who plot evil on their beds! At morning’s light they carry it out because it is in their power to do it. They covet fields and seize them, and houses, and take them. They defraud people of their homes, they rob them of their inheritance.
Micah 2:1-2

I am planning disaster against this people, from which you cannot save yourselves. You will no longer walk proudly, for it will be a time of calamity.In that day people will ridicule you; they will taunt you with this mournful song: ‘We are utterly ruined; my people’s possession is divided up. He takes it from me! He assigns our fields to traitors.’
Micah 2:3-4 

This is what they will get in return for their pride, for insulting and mocking the people of the Lord Almighty.
Zephaniah 2:10

Whoever hates me hates my Father as well.
John 15:23

Therefore, in the present case I advise you: Leave these men alone! Let them go! For if their purpose or activity is of human origin, it will fail. But if it is from God, you will not be able to stop these men; you will only find yourselves fighting against God.
Acts 5:38-39

The man who formerly persecuted us is now preaching the faith he once tried to destroy.
Galatians 1:23

This is a sign to them that they will be destroyed, but that you will be saved—and that by God.
Philippians 1:28

Their destiny is destruction, their god is their stomach, and their glory is in their shame. Their mind is set on earthly things.
Philippians 3:19