You make my enemies retreat; ¹  I destroy those who hate me.

You make my enemies retreat; ¹  I destroy those who hate me. ² 

For you make them retreat ¹  when you shoot your arrows at them. ² 

As soon as they see, ¹  they are shocked; ²  they are terrified, they quickly retreat. ³ 

Your shout made the waters retreat; at the sound of your thunderous voice they hurried off –

a lion, mightiest ¹  of the beasts, who does not retreat from anything;

You made us retreat ¹  from the enemy. Those who hate us take whatever they want from us. ² 

I and all the troops ¹  who are with me will approach the city. When they come out to fight us like before, we will retreat from them.

They will attack ¹  us until we have lured them from the city, for they will say, ‘They are retreating from us like before.’ We will retreat from them.

The Israelites are unable to stand before their enemies; they retreat because they have become subject to annihilation. ¹  I will no longer be with you, ²  unless you destroy what has contaminated you. ³ 

But don’t you delay! Chase your enemies and catch them! ¹  Don’t allow them to retreat to ²  their cities, for the Lord your God is handing them over to you.” ³ 

Then the Benjaminites said, “They are defeated just as before.” But the Israelites said, “Let’s retreat ¹  and lure them ²  away from the city into the main roads.”

The messenger said to David, “The men overpowered us and attacked us ¹  in the field. But we forced them to retreat all the way ²  to the door of the city gate.

“I want to make a treaty with you, like the one our fathers made. ¹  See, I have sent you silver and gold as a present. Break your treaty with King Baasha of Israel, so he will retreat from my land.” ² 

“I want to make a treaty with you, like the one our fathers made. ¹  See, I have sent you silver and gold. Break your treaty with King Baasha of Israel, so he will retreat from my land.” ² 

But the soldiers replied, ¹  “You should not do this! ²  For if we should have to make a rapid retreat, they won’t be too concerned about us. ³  Even if half of us should die, they won’t be too concerned about us. But you ⁴  are like ten thousand of us! So it is better if you remain in the city for support.”