Proverbs 24:11

Arise, Yahweh! Save me, my God! For you have struck all of my enemies on the cheek bone. You have broken the teeth of the wicked.

Then Pharaoh sent and called Joseph, and they brought him hastily out of the dungeon. He shaved himself, changed his clothing, and came in to Pharaoh.

Rescue the weak and needy. Deliver them out of the hand of the wicked.”

There is a generation whose teeth are like swords, and their jaws like knives, to devour the poor from the earth, and the needy from among men.

Behold, one of the rulers of the synagogue, Jairus by name, came; and seeing him, he fell at his feet,

Some shouted one thing, and some another, among the crowd. When he couldn’t find out the truth because of the noise, he commanded him to be brought into the barracks.

Don’t draw me away with the wicked, with the workers of iniquity who speak peace with their neighbors, but mischief is in their hearts.

Now among these were of the children of Judah: Daniel, Hananiah, Mishael, and Azariah.

Then they answered and said before the king, “That Daniel, who is of the children of the captivity of Judah, doesn’t respect you, O king, nor the decree that you have signed, but makes his petition three times a day.”

Paul, called to be an apostle of Jesus Christ through the will of God, and our brother Sosthenes,

I went out after him, and struck him, and rescued it out of his mouth. When he arose against me, I caught him by his beard, and struck him, and killed him.

The roaring of the lion, and the voice of the fierce lion, the teeth of the young lions, are broken.

Because I delivered the poor who cried, and the fatherless also, who had no one to help him,

Break their teeth, God, in their mouth. Break out the great teeth of the young lions, Yahweh.

Let them be like a snail which melts and passes away, like the stillborn child, who has not seen the sun.

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

Then Daniel was brought in before the king. The king spoke and said to Daniel, “Are you that Daniel of the children of the captivity of Judah, whom the king my father brought out of Judah?

Behold, a man named Jairus came. He was a ruler of the synagogue. He fell down at Jesus’ feet, and begged him to come into his house,

In the same way a Levite also, when he came to the place, and saw him, passed by on the other side.

But they insisted, saying, “He stirs up the people, teaching throughout all Judea, beginning from Galilee even to this place.”

the commanding officer commanded him to be brought into the barracks, ordering him to be examined by scourging, that he might know for what crime they shouted against him like that.

If the people of the land all hide their eyes from that person when he gives of his offspring to Molech, and don’t put him to death,

You shall not see your brother’s ox or his sheep go astray and hide yourself from them. You shall surely bring them again to your brother.

These are the children of the province who went up out of the captivity of those who had been carried away, whom Nebuchadnezzar the king of Babylon had carried away, and who returned to Jerusalem and to Judah, everyone to his city,

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

lest they tear apart my soul like a lion, ripping it in pieces, while there is no one to deliver.

“Now consider this, you who forget God, lest I tear you into pieces, and there be no one to deliver.

For, behold, your enemies are stirred up. Those who hate you have lifted up their heads.

then they would have swallowed us up alive, when their wrath was kindled against us;

One who gives to the poor has no lack; but one who closes his eyes will have many curses.

Whatever your hand finds to do, do it with your might; for there is no work, nor plan, nor knowledge, nor wisdom, in Sheol, where you are going.

I will wait for Yahweh, who hides his face from the house of Jacob, and I will look for him.

Isn’t it to distribute your bread to the hungry, and that you bring the poor who are cast out to your house? When you see the naked, that you cover him; and that you not hide yourself from your own flesh?

House of David, Yahweh says, ‘Execute justice in the morning, and deliver him who is robbed out of the hand of the oppressor, lest my wrath go out like fire, and burn so that no one can quench it, because of the evil of your doings.

He will be buried with the burial of a donkey, drawn and cast out beyond the gates of Jerusalem.”

But the hand of Ahikam the son of Shaphan was with Jeremiah, so that they didn’t give him into the hand of the people to put him to death.

They will fall among those who are slain by the sword. She is delivered to the sword. Draw her away with all her multitudes.

You haven’t strengthened the diseased. You haven’t healed that which was sick. You haven’t bound up that which was broken. You haven’t brought back that which was driven away. You haven’t sought that which was lost, but you have ruled over them with force and with rigor.

“I will seek that which was lost, and will bring back that which was driven away, and will bind up that which was broken, and will strengthen that which was sick; but I will destroy the fat and the strong. I will feed them in justice.” ’

They shall not come near to me, to execute the office of priest to me, nor to come near to any of my holy things, to the things that are most holy; but they will bear their shame, and their abominations which they have committed.

Then Arioch brought in Daniel before the king in haste, and said this to him: “I have found a man of the children of the captivity of Judah who will make known to the king the interpretation.”

who drink wine in bowls, and anoint themselves with the best oils; but they are not grieved for the affliction of Joseph.

who also eat the flesh of my people, and peel their skin from off them, and break their bones, and chop them in pieces, as for the pot, and as meat within the cauldron.

Rather, go to the lost sheep of the house of Israel.

But he answered, “I wasn’t sent to anyone but the lost sheep of the house of Israel.”

But the governor said, “Why? What evil has he done?” But they cried out exceedingly, saying, “Let him be crucified!”

You, Capernaum, who are exalted to heaven, will be brought down to Hades.

The ruler of the synagogue, being indignant because Jesus had healed on the Sabbath, said to the multitude, “There are six days in which men ought to work. Therefore come on those days and be healed, and not on the Sabbath day!”

The hired hand flees because he is a hired hand, and doesn’t care for the sheep.

So the detachment, the commanding officer, and the officers of the Jews seized Jesus and bound him,

After the reading of the law and the prophets, the rulers of the synagogue sent to them, saying, “Brothers, if you have any word of exhortation for the people, speak.”

Now when they heard of the resurrection of the dead, some mocked; but others said, “We want to hear you again concerning this.”

Crispus, the ruler of the synagogue, believed in the Lord with all his house. Many of the Corinthians, when they heard, believed and were baptized.

Then all the Greeks seized Sosthenes, the ruler of the synagogue, and beat him before the judgment seat. Gallio didn’t care about any of these things.

Immediately he took soldiers and centurions and ran down to them. They, when they saw the chief captain and the soldiers, stopped beating Paul.

When a great argument arose, the commanding officer, fearing that Paul would be torn in pieces by them, commanded the soldiers to go down and take him by force from among them, and bring him into the barracks.

But Paul’s sister’s son heard they were lying in wait, and he came and entered into the barracks and told Paul.

“This man was seized by the Jews, and was about to be killed by them, when I came with the soldiers and rescued him, having learned that he was a Roman.

But on the next day they left the horsemen to go with him, and returned to the barracks.

But the centurion, desiring to save Paul, stopped them from their purpose, and commanded that those who could swim should throw themselves overboard first to go toward the land;

but we preach Christ crucified: a stumbling block to Jews, and foolishness to Greeks,

in beatings, in imprisonments, in riots, in labors, in watchings, in fastings;

I have been in travels often, perils of rivers, perils of robbers, perils from my countrymen, perils from the Gentiles, perils in the city, perils in the wilderness, perils in the sea, perils among false brothers;

persecutions, and sufferings: those things that happened to me at Antioch, Iconium, and Lystra. I endured those persecutions. The Lord delivered me out of them all.

So, then, my beloved brothers, let every man be swift to hear, slow to speak, and slow to anger;

For you were going astray like sheep; but now you have returned to the Shepherd and Overseer of your souls.

I know that Yahweh will maintain the cause of the afflicted, and justice for the needy.