1 Samuel 23:20

God, the proud have risen up against me. A company of violent men have sought after my soul, and they don’t hold regard for you before them.

Abner sent messengers to David on his behalf, saying, “Whose is the land?” and saying, “Make your alliance with me, and behold, my hand will be with you, to bring all Israel around to you.”

I will take you, and you shall reign according to all that your soul desires, and shall be king over Israel.

Let them vanish like water that flows away. When they draw the bow, let their arrows be made blunt.

Many will entreat the favor of a ruler, and everyone is a friend to a man who gives gifts.

to transfer the kingdom from Saul’s house, and to set up David’s throne over Israel and over Judah, from Dan even to Beersheba.”

Save, Yahweh! Let the King answer us when we call!

A revelation is within my heart about the disobedience of the wicked: “There is no fear of God before his eyes.”

The wicked plots against the just, and gnashes at him with his teeth.

When a wicked man dies, hope perishes, and expectation of power comes to nothing.

There will be weeping and gnashing of teeth when you see Abraham, Isaac, Jacob, and all the prophets in God’s Kingdom, and yourselves being thrown outside.

But to the place which Yahweh your God shall choose out of all your tribes, to put his name there, you shall seek his habitation, and you shall come there.

then it shall happen that to the place which Yahweh your God shall choose, to cause his name to dwell there, there you shall bring all that I command you: your burnt offerings, your sacrifices, your tithes, the wave offering of your hand, and all your choice vows which you vow to Yahweh.

Then David said, “Will the men of Keilah deliver me and my men into the hand of Saul?” Yahweh said, “They will deliver you up.”

So all the elders of Israel came to the king to Hebron, and king David made a covenant with them in Hebron before Yahweh; and they anointed David king over Israel.

For Yahweh knows the way of the righteous, but the way of the wicked shall perish.

May all my enemies be ashamed and dismayed. They shall turn back, they shall be disgraced suddenly.

Surely men of low degree are just a breath, and men of high degree are a lie. In the balances they will go up. They are together lighter than a breath.

Show me a sign of your goodness, that those who hate me may see it, and be shamed, because you, Yahweh, have helped me, and comforted me.

Stretch out your hand from above, rescue me, and deliver me out of great waters, out of the hands of foreigners,

The prospect of the righteous is joy, but the hope of the wicked will perish.

He had possessions of flocks, possessions of herds, and a great household. The Philistines envied him.

But the midwives feared God, and didn’t do what the king of Egypt commanded them, but saved the baby boys alive.

Because the midwives feared God, he gave them families.

“ ‘You shall do no injustice in judgment. You shall not be partial to the poor, nor show favoritism to the great; but you shall judge your neighbor in righteousness.

You shall rejoice before Yahweh your God—you, and your sons, your daughters, your male servants, your female servants, and the Levite who is within your gates, because he has no portion nor inheritance with you.

If a Levite comes from any of your gates out of all Israel where he lives, and comes with all the desire of his soul to the place which Yahweh shall choose,

She said to the men, “I know that Yahweh has given you the land, and that the fear of you has fallen upon us, and that all the inhabitants of the land melt away before you.

He inquired of Yahweh for him, gave him food, and gave him the sword of Goliath the Philistine.”

The king said to the guard who stood about him, “Turn, and kill the priests of Yahweh; because their hand also is with David, and because they knew that he fled, and didn’t disclose it to me.” But the servants of the king wouldn’t put out their hand to fall on the priests of Yahweh.

You have declared today how you have dealt well with me, because when Yahweh had delivered me up into your hand, you didn’t kill me.

Abner said to David, “I will arise and go, and will gather all Israel to my lord the king, that they may make a covenant with you, and that you may reign over all that your soul desires.” David sent Abner away; and he went in peace.

Now Joab the son of Zeruiah perceived that the king’s heart was toward Absalom.

The men of his city, even the elders and the nobles who lived in his city, did as Jezebel had instructed them in the letters which she had written and sent to them.

They conspired against him, and stoned him with stones at the commandment of the king in the court of Yahweh’s house.

Then Tattenai, the governor beyond the River, Shetharbozenai, and their companions did accordingly with all diligence, because Darius the king had sent a decree.

When Sanballat the Horonite, and Tobiah the servant, the Ammonite, heard of it, it grieved them exceedingly, because a man had come to seek the welfare of the children of Israel.

The king arose in his wrath from the banquet of wine and went into the palace garden. Haman stood up to make request for his life to Esther the queen; for he saw that there was evil determined against him by the king.

So are the paths of all who forget God. The hope of the godless man will perish,

He will lean on his house, but it will not stand. He will cling to it, but it will not endure.

He will be rooted out of the security of his tent. He will be brought to the king of terrors.

Yahweh, you have heard the desire of the humble. You will prepare their heart. You will cause your ear to hear,

I have set Yahweh always before me. Because he is at my right hand, I shall not be moved.

May he grant you your heart’s desire, and fulfill all your counsel.

For dogs have surrounded me. A company of evildoers have enclosed me. They have pierced my hands and feet.

One thing I have asked of Yahweh, that I will seek after: that I may dwell in Yahweh’s house all the days of my life, to see Yahweh’s beauty, and to inquire in his temple.

Also delight yourself in Yahweh, and he will give you the desires of your heart.

They also who seek after my life lay snares. Those who seek my hurt speak mischievous things, and meditate deceits all day long.

Let them be disappointed and confounded together who seek after my soul to destroy it. Let them be turned backward and brought to dishonor who delight in my hurt.

Why do you boast of mischief, mighty man? God’s loving kindness endures continually.

Have the workers of iniquity no knowledge, who eat up my people as they eat bread, and don’t call on God?

For strangers have risen up against me. Violent men have sought after my soul. They haven’t set God before them.

because of the voice of the enemy, because of the oppression of the wicked. For they bring suffering on me. In anger they hold a grudge against me.

You, Yahweh God of Armies, the God of Israel, rouse yourself to punish the nations. Show no mercy to the wicked traitors.

I have become a stranger to my brothers, an alien to my mother’s children.

The upright will see it, and be glad. All the wicked will shut their mouths.

The wicked will see it, and be grieved. He shall gnash with his teeth, and melt away. The desire of the wicked will perish.

Oh that my ways were steadfast to obey your statutes!

With my whole heart, I have sought you. Don’t let me wander from your commandments.

For the enemy pursues my soul. He has struck my life down to the ground. He has made me live in dark places, as those who have been long dead.

Yahweh will not allow the soul of the righteous to go hungry, but he thrusts away the desire of the wicked.

The desire of the righteous is only good. The expectation of the wicked is wrath.

The thoughts of the righteous are just, but the advice of the wicked is deceitful.

The life of the body is a heart at peace, but envy rots the bones.

The lot is cast into the lap, but its every decision is from Yahweh.

If a ruler listens to lies, all of his officials are wicked.

Many seek the ruler’s favor, but a man’s justice comes from Yahweh.

With my soul I have desired you in the night. Yes, with my spirit within me I will seek you earnestly; for when your judgments are in the earth, the inhabitants of the world learn righteousness.

“I, even I, am he who comforts you. Who are you, that you are afraid of man who shall die, and of the son of man who will be made as grass?

As for me, I have not hurried from being a shepherd after you. I haven’t desired the woeful day. You know. That which came out of my lips was before your face.

All your enemies have opened their mouth wide against you. They hiss and gnash their teeth. They say, “We have swallowed her up. Certainly this is the day that we looked for. We have found it. We have seen it.”

Doesn’t evil and good come out of the mouth of the Most High?

Yes, I will gather you, and blow on you with the fire of my wrath, and you will be melted in the middle of it.

Ephraim is oppressed, he is crushed in judgment; Because he is intent in his pursuit of idols.

For the statutes of Omri are kept, and all the works of Ahab’s house. You walk in their counsels, that I may make you a ruin, and her inhabitants a hissing; And you will bear the reproach of my people.”

Being warned in a dream not to return to Herod, they went back to their own country another way.

Then Herod, when he saw that he was mocked by the wise men, was exceedingly angry, and sent out, and killed all the male children who were in Bethlehem and in all the surrounding countryside, from two years old and under, according to the exact time which he had learned from the wise men.

Blessed are those who hunger and thirst after righteousness, for they shall be filled.

but the children of the Kingdom will be thrown out into the outer darkness. There will be weeping and gnashing of teeth.”

Then the king said to the servants, ‘Bind him hand and foot, take him away, and throw him into the outer darkness. That is where the weeping and grinding of teeth will be.’

and wherever it seizes him, it throws him down, and he foams at the mouth, and grinds his teeth, and wastes away. I asked your disciples to cast it out, and they weren’t able.”

They will do these things because they have not known the Father, nor me.

But Peter and John answered them, “Whether it is right in the sight of God to listen to you rather than to God, judge for yourselves,

But Peter and the apostles answered, “We must obey God rather than men.

Now when they heard these things, they were cut to the heart, and they gnashed at him with their teeth.

For I know nothing against myself. Yet I am not justified by this, but he who judges me is the Lord.

but a certain fearful expectation of judgment, and a fierceness of fire which will devour the adversaries.

I heard a loud voice from heaven saying to them, “Come up here!” They went up into heaven in the cloud, and their enemies saw them.