But we prayed to our God and posted a guard day and night to meet this threat.
Be alert and of sober mind. Your enemy the devil prowls around like a roaring lion looking for someone to devour.
and call on me in the day of trouble; I will deliver you, and you will honor me.”
Be always on the watch, and pray that you may be able to escape all that is about to happen, and that you may be able to stand before the Son of Man.”
“Watch and pray so that you will not fall into temptation. The spirit is willing, but the flesh is weak.”
Then the man said, “Your name will no longer be Jacob, but Israel, because you have struggled with God and with humans and have overcome.”
Also our enemies said, “Before they know it or see us, we will be right there among them and will kill them and put an end to the work.”
Meanwhile, the people in Judah said, “The strength of the laborers is giving out, and there is so much rubble that we cannot rebuild the wall.”
He thwarts the plans of the crafty, so that their hands achieve no success.
The Lord foils the plans of the nations; he thwarts the purposes of the peoples.
The eyes of the Lord keep watch over knowledge, but he frustrates the words of the unfaithful.