Scriptures to Oppose the Spirits of Destruction & Violence
Say them out loud — Prophesy to the demons!
Scriptures to Pray to Oppose the Spirits of Destruction and Violence
Deuteronomy 20:4 NKJV.
“For The LORD your God is He who goes with you, to fight for you against your enemies, to save you.”
Psalm 140
“Deliver me, O LORD, from evil men; preserve me from violent men, who plan evil things in their hearts; they continually gather together for war.
Deliver me, O LORD, from evil men; preserve me from violent men, they sharpen their tongues like a serpent; the poison of asps is under their lips.
Selah! Keep me, O LORD, from the hands of the wicked; preserve me from violent men, who have purposed to make my steps stumble. The proud have hidden a snare for me, and cords; they have spread a net by the wayside; they have set traps for me.
Selah I said to The LORD: “You are my God; Hear the voice of my supplications, O LORD. O God The LORD, the strength of my salvation,You have covered my head in the day of battle.
Do not grant, O LORD, the desires of the wicked;Do not further his wicked scheme, lest they be exalted.”
Selah O God The LORD, the strength of my salvation,You have covered my head in the day of battle.
I said to The LORD: “You are my God; hear the voice of my supplications, O LORD. The proud have hidden a snare for me, and cords; they have spread a net by the wayside; they have set traps for me.
Selah! As for the head of those who surround me, let the evil of their lips cover them; let burning coals fall upon them; let them be cast into the fire, into deep pits, that they rise not up again.
Let not a slanderer be established in the earth;Let evil hunt the violent man to overthrow him.” I know that The LORD will maintain the cause of the afflicted, and justice for the poor. Surely the righteous shall give thanks to Your name;The upright shall dwell in Your presence.”
Psalm 23:1-6 AMPC.
“The LORD is my Shepherd [to feed, guide, and shield me], I shall not lack. He makes me lie down in [fresh, tender] green pastures; He leads me beside the still and restful waters. [Revelation 7:17]
He refreshes and restores my life (my self); He leads me in the paths of righteousness [uprightness and right standing with Him–not for my earning it, but] for His name’s sake.
Yes, though I walk through the [deep, sunless] valley of the shadow of death, I will fear or dread no evil, for You are with me; Your rod [to protect] and Your staff [to guide], they comfort me.
You prepare a table before me in the presence of my enemies. You anoint my head with oil; my [brimming] cup runs over.
Surely or only goodness, mercy, and unfailing love shall follow me all the days of my life, and through the length of my days the house of The LORD [and His presence] shall be my dwelling place.”
Jeremiah 15:18-21 AMPC.
“Why is my pain perpetual and my wound incurable, refusing to be healed? Will you indeed be to me like a deceitful brook, like waters that fail and are uncertain?
Therefore thus says The LORD [to Jeremiah]: If you return [and give up this mistaken tone of distrust and despair], then I will give you again a settled place of quiet and safety, and you will be My minister; and if you separate the precious from the vile [cleansing your own heart from unworthy and unwarranted suspicions concerning God’s faithfulness], you shall be My mouthpiece. [But do not yield to them.] Let them return to you—not you to [the people].
And I will make you to this people a fortified, bronze wall; they will fight against you, but they will not prevail over you, for I am with you to save and deliver you, says The LORD. And I will deliver you out of the hands of the wicked, and I will redeem you out of the palms of the terrible and ruthless tyrants.”
Exodus 14:14 AMPC.
“The LORD will fight for you, and you shall hold your peace and remain at rest,”
1 Corinthians 10:6-10 AMPC.
“Now these things are examples (warnings and admonitions) for us not to desire or crave or covet or lust after evil and carnal things as they did. Do not be worshipers of false gods as some of them were, as it is written, The people sat down to eat and drink [the sacrifices offered to the golden calf at Horeb] and rose to sport (to dance and give way to jesting and hilarity).
We must not gratify evil desire and indulge in immorality as some of them did — and twenty-three thousand [suddenly] fell dead in a single day!
We should not tempt The LORD [try His patience, become a trial to Him, critically appraise Him, and exploit His goodness] as some of them did — and were killed by poisonous serpents; nor discontentedly complain as some of them did — and were put out of the way entirely by the destroyer (death).”
Exodus 12:23 ESV.
“For The LORD will pass through to smite the Egyptians; and when He sees the blood on the lintel and on the two doorposts, The LORD will pass over the door and will not allow the destroyer to come in to your houses to smite you.”
2 Thessalonians 2:1-4 NKJV.
“Let no one deceive you by any means; for that Day will not come unless the falling away comes first, and the man of sin is revealed, the son of perdition, not to be soon shaken in mind or troubled, either by spirit or by word or by letter, as if from us, as though the day of Christ had come.
Now, brethren, concerning the coming of our LORD Jesus Christ and our gathering together to Him, we ask you, who opposes and exalts himself above all that is called God or that is worshiped, so that he sits as God in the temple of God, showing himself that he is God.”
Job 26:6 ESV.
“Naked is Sheol before Him, and Abaddon has no covering.”
Job 26:6 NKJV.
“Sheol is naked before Him, and Destruction has no covering.
Isaiah 33:1 AMP.
“Woe (judgment is coming) to you, O destroyer,You who were not destroyed,And he who is treacherous, while others did not deal treacherously with him.As soon as you finish destroying, you will be destroyed; as soon as you stop dealing treacherously, others will deal treacherously with you.”
Isaiah 42:13 AMPC.
“The LORD will go forth like a mighty man, He will rouse up His zealous indignation and vengeance like a warrior; He will cry, yes, He will shout aloud, He will do mightily against His enemies.”
Deuteronomy 32:35.
“Vengeance is Mine, and retribution, In due time their foot will slip; For the day of their calamity is near, and the impending things are hastening upon them.”
Psalm 94:1.
“O LORD, God of vengeance, God of vengeance, shine forth!”
Jeremiah 51:56.
“For the destroyer is coming against her, against Babylon, and her mighty men will be captured, their bows are shattered; For The LORD is a God of recompense, He will fully repay.”
Nahum 1:2-9.
“A jealous and avenging God is The LORD; The LORD is avenging and wrathful. The LORD takes vengeance on His adversaries, and He reserves wrath for His enemies. The LORD is slow to anger and great in power, and will not at all acquit the wicked. The LORD has His way In the whirlwind and in the storm, and the clouds are the dust of His feet.
He rebukes the sea and makes it dry, and dries up all the rivers. Bashan and Carmel wither, and the flower of Lebanon wilts. The mountains quake before Him, the hills melt, and the earth heaves at His presence, Yes, the world and all who dwell in it.
Who can stand before His indignation? And who can endure the fierceness of His anger? His fury is poured out like fire, and the rocks are thrown down by Him.
The LORD is good, A stronghold in the day of trouble; and He knows those who trust in Him. But with an overflowing flood He will make an utter end of its place, and darkness will pursue His enemies.
Whatever you devise against The LORD, He will make a complete end of it. Distress will not rise up twice.”
Isaiah 35:4 AMPC.
“Say to those who are of a fearful and hasty heart, Be strong, fear not! Behold, your God will come with vengeance; with the recompense of God He will come and save you.”
Ezekiel 25:17 AMPC.
“And I will execute great vengeance upon them with wrathful rebukes and chastisements, and they shall know (understand and realize) that I am The LORD, when I lay My vengeance upon them.”
Romans 12:19 AMPC.
“Beloved, never avenge yourselves, but leave the way open for [God’s] wrath; for it is written, Vengeance is Mine, I will repay (requite), says The LORD.”
Psalm 99:8 Wycliffe.
“Our LORD God, thou heardest them; God, thou were merciful to them, and thou tookest vengeance on all their findings. (LORD our God, thou answeredest them; God, thou were merciful to them, even though thou punished them for all their sins.)”
2 Thessalonians 1:8 Wycliffe.
“In the flame of fire, that shall give vengeance to them that know not God [in the flame of fire, giving vengeance to them that know not God], and that obey not to the gospel of our LORD Jesus Christ.”
Jeremiah 51:11 AMPC.
“Make clean and sharp the arrows, take up the shields or coats of armor [and cover your bodies with them]!
The LORD has stirred up the spirit of the kings of the Medes [who with the Persians will destroy the Babylonian Empire], for His purpose concerning Babylon is to destroy it; for that is the vengeance of The LORD, the vengeance [upon Babylon for the plundering and destruction] of His temple.”
Jeremiah 50:28 AMPC.
“Listen! The voice of those [Jews] who flee and escape out of the land of Babylon proclaiming in Zion the vengeance of The LORD our God, the vengeance [of The LORD upon the Chaldeans] for [the plundering and destruction of] His temple.”
Jeremiah 5:29 AMPC.
“Shall I not punish them for these things? says The LORD. Shall I not avenge Myself on such a nation as this?”
Deuteronomy 32:41 AMPC.
“If I whet My lightning sword and My hand takes hold on judgment, I will wreak vengeance on My foes and recompense those who hate Me.”
Isaiah 1:24 NKJV.
“Therefore The LORD says, The LORD of hosts, the Mighty One of Israel, “Ah, I will rid Myself of My adversaries, and take vengeance on My enemies.”
Isaiah 47:3 NKJV.
“Your nakedness shall be uncovered, Yes, your shame will be seen; I will take vengeance, and I will not arbitrate with a man.”
Isaiah 35:4 AMPC.
“Say to those who are of a fearful and hasty heart, Be strong, fear not! Behold, your God will come with vengeance; with the recompense of God He will come and save you.”
Ezekiel 25:17.
“I will execute great vengeance on them with wrathful rebukes; and they will know that I am The LORD when I lay My vengeance on them.”
Isaiah 59:17 ESV.
“He put on righteousness like a breastplate, and a helmet of salvation on His head; and He put on garments of vengeance for clothing and wrapped Himself with zeal as a mantle.”
Micah 5:15.
“And I will execute vengeance in anger and wrath on the nations which have not obeyed.”
Isaiah 34:8 ESV.
“For The LORD has a day of vengeance, A year of recompense for the cause of Zion.”
Jeremiah 46:10 ESV.
“For that day belongs to The LORD God of hosts, A day of vengeance, so as to avenge Himself on His foes; and the sword will devour and be satiated and drink its fill of their blood; For there will be a slaughter for The LORD God of hosts, In the land of the north by the river Euphrates.”
Jeremiah 51:6 ESV.
“Flee from the midst of Babylon, and each of you save his life! Do not be destroyed in her punishment, For this is The LORD’s time of vengeance; He is going to render recompense to her.”
Isaiah 63:1-6 AMP.
“Who is this who comes from Edom, With crimson-stained garments from Bozrah [in Edom], This One (the Messiah) who is majestic in His apparel, Marching in the greatness of His might?“
It is I, [the One] who speaks in righteousness [proclaiming vindication], mighty to save.”
Why is Your apparel red, and Your garments like the one who treads in the wine press?
I have trodden the wine trough alone, and of the peoples there was no one with Me.
I also trod them in My anger and trampled them in My wrath; and their lifeblood is sprinkled on My garments, and I stained all My clothes. “I trampled the peoples in My anger and made them drunk with [the cup of] My wrath, and I spilled their lifeblood on the earth.”
Luke 21:22 ESV.
“Because these are days of vengeance, so that all things which are written will be fulfilled.”
Daniel 8:24 ESV.
“His power will be mighty, but not by his own power, and he will destroy to an extraordinary degree and prosper and perform his will; He will destroy mighty men and the holy people.”
Daniel 9:27 ESV.
And he will make a firm covenant with the many for one week, but in the middle of the week he will put a stop to sacrifice and grain offering; and on the wing of abominations will come one who makes desolate, even until a complete destruction, one that is decreed, is poured out on the one who makes desolate.”
Revelation 11:18 AMPC.
“And the heathen (the nations) raged, but Your wrath (retribution, indignation) came, the time when the dead will be judged and Your servants the prophets and saints rewarded—and those who revere (fear) Your name, both low and high and small and great—and [the time] for destroying the corrupters of the earth.”
2 Thessalonians 3:3.
“But The LORD is faithful, and he will strengthen you and protect you from the evil one.”
Psalm 138:7.
“Though I walk in the midst of trouble, you preserve my life. You stretch out your hand against the anger of my foes; with your right hand you save me.”
Psalm 34:19.
“Many evils confront the [consistently] righteous, but The LORD delivers him out of them all.”
Psalm 57:1 AMPC.
“Be merciful and gracious to me, O God, be merciful and gracious to me, for my soul takes refuge and finds shelter and confidence in You; yes, in the shadow of Your wings will I take refuge and be confident until calamities and destructive storms are passed.”
Psalm 20:1 NKJV.
“May The LORD answer you in the day of trouble; May the name of the God of Jacob defend you.”
Psalm 5:11 AMPC.
“But let all those who take refuge and put their trust in You rejoice; let them ever sing and shout for joy, because You make a covering over them and defend them; let those also who love Your name be joyful in You and be in high spirits.”
Psalm 12:5 ESV.
“Because the poor are plundered and the needy groan, I will now arise,” says The LORD. “I will protect them from those who malign them.”
Psalm 59:1 ESV.
“Deliver me from my enemies, O God; be my fortress against those who are attacking me.”
Psalm 140:4 NKJV.
“Keep me, O LORD, from the hands of the wicked; Preserve me from violent men, Who have purposed to make my steps stumble.”
Isaiah 61:1 AMPC.
“THE SPIRIT of The LORD God is upon me, because The LORD has anointed and qualified me to preach the Gospel of good tidings to the meek, the poor, and afflicted; He has sent me to bind up and heal the brokenhearted, to proclaim liberty to the [physical and spiritual] captives and the opening of the prison and of the eyes to those who are bound, [Romans 10:15.]
To proclaim the acceptable year of The LORD [the year of His favor] and the day of vengeance of our God, to comfort all who mourn, [Matthew 11:2-6; Luke 4:18,19;7:22.]
To grant [consolation and joy] to those who mourn in Zion–to give them an ornament (a garland or diadem) of beauty instead of ashes, the oil of joy instead of mourning, the garment [expressive] of praise instead of a heavy, burdened, and failing spirit–that they may be called oaks of righteousness [lofty, strong, and magnificent, distinguished for uprightness, justice, and right standing with God], the planting of The LORD, that He may be glorified.
And they shall rebuild the ancient ruins; they shall raise up the former desolations and renew the ruined cities, the devastations of many generations.
Aliens shall stand [ready] and feed your flocks, and foreigners shall be your plowmen and your vinedressers.
But you shall be called the priests of The LORD; people will speak of you as the ministers of our God. You shall eat the wealth of the nations, and the glory [once that of your captors] shall be yours. [Exodus 19:6; 1 Peter 2:5; Revelation 1:6;5:10;20:6.]
Instead of your [former] shame you shall have a twofold recompense; instead of dishonor and reproach [your people] shall rejoice in their portion. Therefore in their land they shall possess double [what they had forfeited]; everlasting joy shall be theirs.
For I The LORD love justice; I hate robbery and wrong with violence or a burnt offering. And I will faithfully give them their recompense in truth, and I will make an everlasting covenant or league with them. And their offspring shall be known among the nations and their descendants among the peoples. All who see them [in their prosperity] will recognize and acknowledge that they are the people whom The LORD has blessed.
I will greatly rejoice in The LORD, my soul will exult in my God; for He has clothed me with the garments of salvation, He has covered me with the robe of righteousness, as a bridegroom decks himself with a garland, and as a bride adorns herself with her jewels.
For as [surely as] the earth brings forth its shoots, and as a garden causes what is sown in it to spring forth, so [surely] The LORD God will cause rightness and justice and praise to spring forth before all the nations [through the self-fulfilling power of His word].”
~ Priscilla Van Sutphin
PRISCILLA VAN SUTPHIN is the founder of Upstream Ministries, California, online at www.upstreamca.org and blogtalkradio.com/ Upstream. Email: upstream.ca@me.com For Donations: send to ‘Priscilla Van Sutphin’ on envelope, but to Upstream if chk at 15660 Tustin Village Way #27, Tustin CA 92780 or https://www.paypal.me/UpstreamMinistries or Zelle thru using upstream.ca@me.com
Amen, absolutely cleaned my environment.
Wow, thank you so much for the prayers. I will make sure I print out your post and say the prayers daily. God bless!