2 Samuel 17:1

I laid myself down and slept. I awakened; for Yahweh sustains me.

Now therefore send quickly, and tell David, saying, ‘Don’t lodge tonight at the fords of the wilderness, but by all means pass over; lest the king be swallowed up, and all the people who are with him.’ ”

He plots iniquity on his bed. He sets himself in a way that is not good. He doesn’t abhor evil.

a heart that devises wicked schemes, feet that are swift in running to mischief,

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.

“Their feet are swift to shed blood.

Your threshing shall continue until the vintage, and the vintage shall continue until the sowing time. You shall eat your bread to the full, and dwell in your land safely.

But when you go over the Jordan and dwell in the land which Yahweh your God causes you to inherit, and he gives you rest from all your enemies around you, so that you dwell in safety,

You will be secure, because there is hope. Yes, you will search, and will take your rest in safety.

In peace I will both lay myself down and sleep, for you, Yahweh alone, make me live in safety.

It is vain for you to rise up early, to stay up late, eating the bread of toil, for he gives sleep to his loved ones.

For they don’t sleep unless they do evil. Their sleep is taken away, unless they make someone fall.

Woe to those who devise iniquity and work evil on their beds! When the morning is light, they practice it, because it is in the power of their hand.

But before they lay down, the men of the city, the men of Sodom, surrounded the house, both young and old, all the people from every quarter.

“ ‘Therefore you shall do my statutes, and keep my ordinances and do them; and you shall dwell in the land in safety.

“ ‘I will give peace in the land, and you shall lie down, and no one will make you afraid. I will remove evil animals out of the land, neither shall the sword go through your land.

All the country wept with a loud voice, and all the people passed over. The king also himself passed over the brook Kidron, and all the people passed over, toward the way of the wilderness.

You love all devouring words, you deceitful tongue.

for their feet run to evil. They hurry to shed blood.

When you lie down, you will not be afraid. Yes, you will lie down, and your sleep will be sweet.

It isn’t good to have zeal without knowledge, nor being hasty with one’s feet and missing the way.

On the third day, when they were sore, two of Jacob’s sons, Simeon and Levi, Dinah’s brothers, each took his sword, came upon the unsuspecting city, and killed all the males.

Pharaoh commanded all his people, saying, “You shall cast every son who is born into the river, and every daughter you shall save alive.”

Aaron said, “Don’t let the anger of my lord grow hot. You know the people, that they are set on evil.

Now therefore, go up by night, you and the people who are with you, and lie in wait in the field.

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.

Absalom rose up early, and stood beside the way of the gate. When any man had a suit which should come to the king for judgment, then Absalom called to him, and said, “What city are you from?” He said, “Your servant is of one of the tribes of Israel.”

Behold, I will stay at the fords of the wilderness, until word comes from you to inform me.”

The king said to Ziba, “What do you mean by these?” Ziba said, “The donkeys are for the king’s household to ride on; and the bread and summer fruit for the young men to eat; and the wine, that those who are faint in the wilderness may drink.”

The days which Jeroboam reigned were twenty two years, then he slept with his fathers, and Nadab his son reigned in his place.

Then when the copy of king Artaxerxes’ letter was read before Rehum, Shimshai the scribe, and their companions, they went in haste to Jerusalem to the Jews, and made them to cease by force of arms.

The couriers went out in haste by the king’s commandment, and the decree was given out in the citadel of Susa. The king and Haman sat down to drink; but the city of Susa was perplexed.

Then Zeresh his wife and all his friends said to him, “Let a gallows be made fifty cubits high, and in the morning speak to the king about hanging Mordecai on it. Then go in merrily with the king to the banquet.” This pleased Haman, so he had the gallows made.

Behold, as wild donkeys in the desert, they go out to their work, seeking diligently for food. The wilderness yields them bread for their children.

in whose hands is wickedness, their right hand is full of bribes.

For I have heard the slander of many, terror on every side, while they conspire together against me, they plot to take away my life.

Let the lying lips be mute, which speak against the righteous insolently, with pride and contempt.

Your tongue plots destruction, like a sharp razor, working deceitfully.

I have done no wrong, yet they are ready to attack me. Rise up, behold, and help me!

They gather themselves together against the soul of the righteous, and condemn the innocent blood.

for they have opened the mouth of the wicked and the mouth of deceit against me. They have spoken to me with a lying tongue.

They have sharpened their tongues like a serpent. Viper’s poison is under their lips.

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

arrogant eyes, a lying tongue, hands that shed innocent blood,

Truth’s lips will be established forever, but a lying tongue is only momentary.

The heart of the righteous weighs answers, but the mouth of the wicked gushes out evil.

The sleep of a laboring man is sweet, whether he eats little or much; but the abundance of the rich will not allow him to sleep.

But the wicked are like the troubled sea; for it can’t rest and its waters cast up mire and mud.

No one sues in righteousness, and no one pleads in truth. They trust in vanity, and speak lies. They conceive mischief, and give birth to iniquity.

“They bend their tongue, as their bow, for falsehood. They have grown strong in the land, but not for truth; for they proceed from evil to evil, and they don’t know me,” says Yahweh.

Friends deceive each other, and will not speak the truth. They have taught their tongue to speak lies. They weary themselves commiting iniquity.

It was so, when they came into the middle of the city, that Ishmael the son of Nethaniah killed them, and cast them into the middle of the pit, he, and the men who were with him.

“ ‘I will make with them a covenant of peace, and will cause evil animals to cease out of the land. They will dwell securely in the wilderness, and sleep in the woods.

In that day I will make a covenant for them with the animals of the field, and with the birds of the sky, and with the creeping things of the ground. I will break the bow, the sword, and the battle out of the land, and will make them lie down safely.

For they have prepared their heart like an oven, while they lie in wait. Their baker sleeps all the night. In the morning it burns as a flaming fire.

She, being prompted by her mother, said, “Give me here on a platter the head of John the Baptizer.”

She came in immediately with haste to the king, and asked, “I want you to give me right now the head of John the Baptizer on a platter.”

After the piece of bread, then Satan entered into him. Then Jesus said to him, “What you do, do quickly.”

and set up false witnesses who said, “This man never stops speaking blasphemous words against this holy place and the law.

The same night when Herod was about to bring him out, Peter was sleeping between two soldiers, bound with two chains. Guards in front of the door kept the prison.

Now therefore, you with the council inform the commanding officer that he should bring him down to you tomorrow, as though you were going to judge his case more exactly. We are ready to kill him before he comes near.”

Then the high priest and the principal men of the Jews informed him against Paul, and they begged him,

But if our unrighteousness commends the righteousness of God, what will we say? Is God unrighteous who inflicts wrath? I speak like men do.

having eyes full of adultery, and who can’t cease from sin; enticing unsettled souls; having a heart trained in greed; children of cursing;

I heard a voice from heaven saying, “Write, ‘Blessed are the dead who die in the Lord from now on.’ ” “Yes,” says the Spirit, “that they may rest from their labors; for their works follow with them.”

As soon as it was day, the assembly of the elders of the people were gathered together, both chief priests and scribes, and they led him away into their council, saying,

They led Jesus therefore from Caiaphas into the Praetorium. It was early, and they themselves didn’t enter into the Praetorium, that they might not be defiled, but might eat the Passover.

who died for us, that, whether we wake or sleep, we should live together with him.