Exodus 23:22 - New Revised Standard Version Updated Edition 2021

²² “But if you listen attentively to his voice and do all that I say, then I will be an enemy to your enemies and a foe to your foes.

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King James Version (Oxford) 1769

²² But if thou shalt indeed obey his voice, and do all that I speak; then I will be an enemy unto thine enemies, and an adversary unto thine adversaries.

Amplified Bible - Classic Edition

²² But if you will indeed listen to and obey His voice and all that I speak, then I will be an enemy to your enemies and an adversary to your adversaries.

American Standard Version (1901)

²² But if thou shalt indeed hearken unto his voice, and do all that I speak; then I will be an enemy unto thine enemies, and an adversary unto thine adversaries.

Common English Bible

²² But if you listen carefully to what he says and do all that I say, then I’ll be an enemy to your enemies and fight those fighting you.

Catholic Public Domain Version

²² But if you listen to his voice and do all that I say, I will be an enemy to your enemies, and I will afflict those who afflict you.

Douay-Rheims version of The Bible - 1752 version

²² But if thou wilt hear his voice, and do all that I speak: I will be an enemy to thy enemies, and will afflict them that afflict thee.

Exodus 23:22 Cross References

Genesis 12:3

I will bless those who bless you, and the one who curses you I will curse, and in you all the families of the earth shall be blessed.”

Psalm 35:1

Contend, O Lord, with those who contend with me; fight against those who fight against me!

Exodus 15:16

Terror and dread fell upon them; by the might of your arm, they became still as a stone until your people, O Lord, passed by, until the people whom you acquired passed by.

Jeremiah 30:20

Their children shall be as of old; their congregation shall be established before me, and I will punish all who oppress them.

Zechariah 2:8

For thus said the Lord of hosts after his glory sent me to the nations who plundered you: Truly, one who touches you touches the apple of my eye.

Numbers 24:8

God, who brings him out of Egypt, is like the horns of a wild ox for him; he shall devour the nations that are his foes and break their bones. He shall strike with his arrows.

Numbers 24:9

He crouched; he lay down like a lion and like a lioness; who will rouse him up? Blessed is everyone who blesses you, and cursed is everyone who curses you.”

Deuteronomy 28:1

“If you will only obey the Lord your God, by diligently observing all his commandments that I am commanding you today, the Lord your God will set you high above all the nations of the earth;

Deuteronomy 30:7

The Lord your God will put all these curses on your enemies and on the adversaries who took advantage of you.

2 Thessalonians 1:6

For it is indeed just of God to repay with affliction those who afflict you

Joshua 9:7

But the Israelites said to the Hivites, “Perhaps you live among us; then how can we make a treaty with you?”