1 Samuel 26:20

Cast your burden on Yahweh and he will sustain you. He will never allow the righteous to be moved.

A man’s steps are established by Yahweh. He delights in his way.

Then Abishai the son of Zeruiah said to the king, “Why should this dead dog curse my lord the king? Please let me go over and take off his head.”

that he may guard the paths of justice, and preserve the way of his saints.

for Yahweh will be your confidence, and will keep your foot from being taken.

The Lord Yahweh has sworn by his holiness that behold, “The days shall come on you that they will take you away with hooks, and the last of you with fish hooks.

Moreover, my father, behold, yes, see the skirt of your robe in my hand; for in that I cut off the skirt of your robe, and didn’t kill you, know and see that there is neither evil nor disobedience in my hand, and I have not sinned against you, though you hunt for my life to take it.

Against whom has the king of Israel come out? Whom do you pursue? A dead dog? A flea?

Yahweh, my God, if I have done this, if there is iniquity in my hands,

Help, Yahweh; for the godly man ceases. For the faithful fail from among the children of men.

He will not allow your foot to be moved. He who keeps you will not slumber.

Through Yahweh of Armies’ wrath, the land is burned up; and the people are the fuel for the fire. No one spares his brother.

He takes up all of them with the hook. He catches them in his net, and gathers them in his dragnet. Therefore he rejoices and is glad.

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

The Philistine said to David, “Am I a dog, that you come to me with sticks?” The Philistine cursed David by his gods.

David stayed in the wilderness in the strongholds, and remained in the hill country in the wilderness of Ziph. Saul sought him every day, but God didn’t deliver him into his hand.

See therefore, and take knowledge of all the lurking places where he hides himself, and come again to me with certainty, and I will go with you. It shall happen, if he is in the land, that I will search him out among all the thousands of Judah.”

Please forgive the trespass of your servant. For Yahweh will certainly make my lord a sure house, because my lord fights Yahweh’s battles. Evil will not be found in you all your days.

Then Abner was very angry about Ishbosheth’s words, and said, “Am I a dog’s head that belongs to Judah? Today I show kindness to Saul’s house your father, to his brothers, and to his friends, and have not delivered you into the hand of David; and yet you charge me today with a fault concerning this woman!

They brought the head of Ishbosheth to David to Hebron, and said to the king, “Behold, the head of Ishbosheth, the son of Saul, your enemy, who sought your life! Yahweh has avenged my lord the king today of Saul, and of his offspring.”

He lurks in secret as a lion in his ambush. He lies in wait to catch the helpless. He catches the helpless when he draws him in his net.

Let me not be disappointed, Yahweh, for I have called on you. Let the wicked be disappointed. Let them be silent in Sheol.

For, behold, they lie in wait for my soul. The mighty gather themselves together against me, not for my disobedience, nor for my sin, Yahweh.

But as for me, my feet were almost gone. My steps had nearly slipped.

Establish my footsteps in your word. Don’t let any iniquity have dominion over me.

The way of the wicked is like darkness. They don’t know what they stumble over.

They shall come, and shall all rest in the desolate valleys, in the clefts of the rocks, on all thorn hedges, and on all pastures.

The righteous perish, and no one lays it to heart. Merciful men are taken away, and no one considers that the righteous is taken away from the evil.

For wicked men are found among my people. They watch, as fowlers lie in wait. They set a trap. They catch men.

For Yahweh says, “Behold, I will sling out the inhabitants of the land at this time, and will distress them, that they may feel it.”

“Behold, I will send for many fishermen,” says Yahweh, “and they will fish them up. Afterward I will send for many hunters, and they will hunt them from every mountain, from every hill, and out of the clefts of the rocks.

When it is my desire, I will chastise them; and the nations will be gathered against them, when they are bound to their two transgressions.

Though they hide themselves in the top of Carmel, I will search and take them out there; and though they be hidden from my sight in the bottom of the sea, there I will command the serpent, and it will bite them.

Jesus responded, as he taught in the temple, “How is it that the scribes say that the Christ is the son of David?

Now very early in the morning, he came again into the temple, and all the people came to him. He sat down and taught them.

“Brothers, it was necessary that this Scripture should be fulfilled, which the Holy Spirit spoke before by the mouth of David concerning Judas, who was guide to those who took Jesus.

who by the power of God are guarded through faith for a salvation ready to be revealed in the last time.

Yes, he loves the people. All his saints are in your hand. They sat down at your feet. Each receives your words.

You are happy, Israel! Who is like you, a people saved by Yahweh, the shield of your help, the sword of your excellency? Your enemies will submit themselves to you. You will tread on their high places.”

Then she fell on her face and bowed herself to the ground, and said to him, “Why have I found favor in your sight, that you should take knowledge of me, since I am a foreigner?”

His servants came near, and spoke to him, and said, “My father, if the prophet had asked you do some great thing, wouldn’t you have done it? How much rather then, when he says to you, ‘Wash, and be clean?’ ”

Hazael said, “But what is your servant, who is but a dog, that he could do this great thing?” Elisha answered, “Yahweh has shown me that you will be king over Syria.”

You will know that your tent is in peace. You will visit your fold, and will miss nothing.

I broke the jaws of the unrighteous and plucked the prey out of his teeth.

The cords of death surrounded me. The floods of ungodliness made me afraid.

For Yahweh loves justice, and doesn’t forsake his saints. They are preserved forever, but the children of the wicked shall be cut off.

But those who seek my soul to destroy it shall go into the lower parts of the earth.

who preserves our life among the living, and doesn’t allow our feet to be moved.

When I said, “My foot is slipping!” Your loving kindness, Yahweh, held me up.

You who love Yahweh, hate evil! He preserves the souls of his saints. He delivers them out of the hand of the wicked.

Precious in Yahweh’s sight is the death of his saints.

In your loving kindness, cut off my enemies, and destroy all those who afflict my soul, For I am your servant.

If they say, “Come with us. Let’s lay in wait for blood. Let’s lurk secretly for the innocent without cause.

All his days he also eats in darkness, he is frustrated, and has sickness and wrath.

I, Yahweh, am its keeper. I will water it every moment. Lest anyone damage it, I will keep it night and day.

Their feet run to evil, and they hurry to shed innocent blood. Their thoughts are thoughts of iniquity. Desolation and destruction are in their paths.

Yahweh of Armies says, “They will thoroughly glean the remnant of Israel like a vine. Turn again your hand as a grape gatherer into the baskets.”

I listened and heard, but they didn’t say what is right. No one repents of his wickedness, saying, “What have I done?” Everyone turns to his course, as a horse that rushes headlong in the battle.

“ ‘Therefore the Lord Yahweh says: “Woe to the bloody city, to the cauldron whose rust is in it, and whose rust hasn’t gone out of it! Take out of it piece after piece. No lot is fallen on it.

There is cursing, lying, murder, stealing, and committing adultery; they break boundaries, and bloodshed causes bloodshed.

Simon the Zealot; and Judas Iscariot, who also betrayed him.

Then one of the twelve, who was called Judas Iscariot, went to the chief priests,

He closed the book, gave it back to the attendant, and sat down. The eyes of all in the synagogue were fastened on him.

He was teaching daily in the temple, but the chief priests, the scribes, and the leading men among the people sought to destroy him.

Every day Jesus was teaching in the temple, and every night he would go out and spend the night on the mountain that is called Olivet.

After these things Yahweh’s word came to Abram in a vision, saying, “Don’t be afraid, Abram. I am your shield, your exceedingly great reward.”

He will keep the feet of his holy ones, but the wicked will be put to silence in darkness; for no man will prevail by strength.

David arose and went, he and his men, and killed two hundred men of the Philistines. Then David brought their foreskins, and they gave them in full number to the king, that he might be the king’s son-in-law. Then Saul gave him Michal his daughter as wife.

Though men may rise up to pursue you, and to seek your soul, yet the soul of my lord will be bound in the bundle of life with Yahweh your God. He will sling out the souls of your enemies, as from the hollow of a sling.

He bowed down, and said, “What is your servant, that you should look at such a dead dog as I am?”

Why should I fear in the days of evil, when iniquity at my heels surrounds me?

Yahweh is your keeper. Yahweh is your shade on your right hand.

Blessed be Yahweh, who has not given us as a prey to their teeth.

An evil speaker won’t be established in the earth. Evil will hunt the violent man to overthrow him.

A gentle answer turns away wrath, but a harsh word stirs up anger.

I returned and saw under the sun that the race is not to the swift, nor the battle to the strong, neither yet bread to the wise, nor yet riches to men of understanding, nor yet favor to men of skill; but time and chance happen to them all.

Yahweh says, “Don’t let the wise man glory in his wisdom. Don’t let the mighty man glory in his might. Don’t let the rich man glory in his riches.

They hunt our steps, so that we can’t go in our streets. Our end is near. Our days are fulfilled, for our end has come.

The godly man has perished out of the earth, and there is no one upright among men. They all lie in wait for blood; every man hunts his brother with a net.

While he was still speaking, behold, Judas, one of the twelve, came, and with him a great multitude with swords and clubs, from the chief priests and elders of the people.

In that hour Jesus said to the multitudes, “Have you come out as against a robber with swords and clubs to seize me? I sat daily in the temple teaching, and you didn’t arrest me.

But this happened so that the word may be fulfilled which was written in their law, ‘They hated me without a cause.’

that they may all be one; even as you, Father, are in me, and I in you, that they also may be one in us; that the world may believe that you sent me.

I in them, and you in me, that they may be perfected into one; that the world may know that you sent me and loved them, even as you loved me.

Jude, a servant of Jesus Christ, and brother of James, to those who are called, sanctified by God the Father, and kept for Jesus Christ:

wild waves of the sea, foaming out their own shame; wandering stars, for whom the blackness of darkness has been reserved forever.