Psalms 10:2

He who dwells in the secret place of the Most High will rest in the shadow of the Almighty.

“Be still, and know that I am God. I will be exalted among the nations. I will be exalted in the earth.”

Yahweh brings the counsel of the nations to nothing. He makes the thoughts of the peoples to be of no effect.

For in the day of trouble, he will keep me secretly in his pavilion. In the secret place of his tabernacle, he will hide me. He will lift me up on a rock.

“The house which I am building will be great; for our God is greater than all gods.

According to what I have seen, those who plow iniquity, and sow trouble, reap the same.

Why do the nations rage, and the peoples plot a vain thing?

For they intended evil against you. They plotted evil against you which cannot succeed.

You are my hiding place. You will preserve me from trouble. You will surround me with songs of deliverance.

Who is like you, Yahweh, among the gods? Who is like you, glorious in holiness, fearful in praises, doing wonders?

You will be hidden from the scourge of the tongue, neither will you be afraid of destruction when it comes.

For without cause they have hidden their net in a pit for me. Without cause they have dug a pit for my soul.

Hide me from the conspiracy of the wicked, from the noisy crowd of the ones doing evil;

He has brought on them their own iniquity, and will cut them off in their own wickedness. Yahweh, our God, will cut them off.

For Yahweh is a great God, a great King above all gods.

They surrounded me like bees. They are quenched like the burning thorns. In Yahweh’s name I cut them off.

The wicked have laid a snare for me, yet I haven’t gone astray from your precepts.

As for the head of those who surround me, let the mischief of their own lips cover them.

When the whirlwind passes, the wicked is no more; but the righteous stand firm forever.

Let a cry be heard from their houses when you bring a troop suddenly on them; for they have dug a pit to take me and hidden snares for my feet.

It grew great, even to the army of the sky; and it cast down some of the army and of the stars to the ground, and trampled on them.

What do you plot against Yahweh? He will make a full end. Affliction won’t rise up the second time.

He has shown strength with his arm. He has scattered the proud in the imagination of their hearts.

The good man out of the good treasure of his heart brings out that which is good, and the evil man out of the evil treasure of his heart brings out that which is evil, for out of the abundance of the heart, his mouth speaks.

For great is Yahweh, and greatly to be praised. He also is to be feared above all gods.

but when this became known to the king, he commanded by letters that his wicked plan, which he had planned against the Jews, should return on his own head, and that he and his sons should be hanged on the gallows.

But you are forgers of lies. You are all physicians of no value.

They close up their callous hearts. With their mouth they speak proudly.

In the shelter of your presence you will hide them from the plotting of man. You will keep them secretly in a dwelling away from the strife of tongues.

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

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

Blessed is the man who makes Yahweh his trust, and doesn’t respect the proud, nor such as turn away to lies.

They encourage themselves in evil plans. They talk about laying snares secretly. They say, “Who will see them?”

They conspire with cunning against your people. They plot against your cherished ones.

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.

They pour out arrogant words. All the evildoers boast.

For you, Yahweh, are most high above all the earth. You are exalted far above all gods.

For I know that Yahweh is great, that our Lord is above all gods.

Keep me from the snare which they have laid for me, from the traps of the workers of iniquity.

When my spirit was overwhelmed within me, you knew my route. On the path in which I walk, they have hidden a snare for me.

The righteousness of the blameless will direct his way, but the wicked shall fall by his own wickedness.

The righteousness of the upright shall deliver them, but the unfaithful will be trapped by evil desires.

An evil man is trapped by sinfulness of lips, but the righteous shall come out of trouble.

For as the crackling of thorns under a pot, so is the laughter of the fool. This also is vanity.

Then they said, “Come! Let’s devise plans against Jeremiah; for the law won’t perish from the priest, nor counsel from the wise, nor the word from the prophet. Come, and let’s strike him with the tongue, and let’s not give heed to any of his words.”

He said to me, “Son of man, these are the men who devise iniquity, and who give wicked counsel in this city;

“Son of man, tell the prince of Tyre, ‘The Lord Yahweh says: “Because your heart is lifted up, and you have said, ‘I am a god, I sit in the seat of God, in the middle of the seas;’ yet you are man, and not God, though you set your heart as the heart of God—

Now I, Nebuchadnezzar, praise and extol and honor the King of heaven; for all his works are truth, and his ways justice; and those who walk in pride he is able to abase.

“The king will do according to his will. He will exalt himself, and magnify himself above every god, and will speak marvelous things against the God of gods. He will prosper until the indignation is accomplished; for that which is determined will be done.

He sent them to Bethlehem, and said, “Go and search diligently for the young child. When you have found him, bring me word, so that I also may come and worship him.”

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.

Jesus answered them, “Most certainly I tell you, everyone who commits sin is the bondservant of sin.

For I see that you are in the poison of bitterness and in the bondage of iniquity.”

Not that I have already obtained, or am already made perfect; but I press on, that I may take hold of that for which also I was taken hold of by Christ Jesus.

he is conceited, knowing nothing, but obsessed with arguments, disputes, and word battles, from which come envy, strife, insulting, evil suspicions,

But he gives more grace. Therefore it says, “God resists the proud, but gives grace to the humble.”

to execute judgment on all, and to convict all the ungodly of all their works of ungodliness which they have done in an ungodly way, and of all the hard things which ungodly sinners have spoken against him.”

“Don’t keep talking so exceedingly proudly. Don’t let arrogance come out of your mouth, for Yahweh is a God of knowledge. By him actions are weighed.

Yahweh will return his blood on his own head, because he fell on two men more righteous and better than he, and killed them with the sword, and my father David didn’t know it: Abner the son of Ner, captain of the army of Israel, and Amasa the son of Jether, captain of the army of Judah.

He returned to the man of God, he and all his company, and came, and stood before him; and he said, “See now, I know that there is no God in all the earth, but in Israel. Now therefore, please take a gift from your servant.”

and showed signs and wonders against Pharaoh, and against all his servants, and against all the people of his land; for you knew that they dealt proudly against them, and made a name for yourself, as it is today.

Yes, you would even cast lots for the fatherless, and make merchandise of your friend.

The trouble he causes shall return to his own head. His violence shall come down on the crown of his own head.

“Come,” they say, “let’s destroy them as a nation, that the name of Israel may be remembered no more.”

so pursue them with your tempest, and terrify them with your storm.

You have rebuked the proud who are cursed, who wander from your commandments.

then the proud waters would have gone over our soul.

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

Let the wicked fall together into their own nets while I pass by.

Come, my people, enter into your rooms, and shut your doors behind you. Hide yourself for a little moment, until the indignation is past.

and tell them, Yahweh of Armies, the God of Israel, says: ‘Behold, I will send and take Nebuchadnezzar the king of Babylon, my servant, and will set his throne on these stones that I have hidden; and he will spread his royal pavilion over them.

“ ‘therefore the Lord Yahweh says: “Because you have set your heart as the heart of God,

But when his heart was lifted up, and his spirit was hardened so that he dealt proudly, he was deposed from his kingly throne, and they took his glory from him.

Let’s walk properly, as in the day; not in reveling and drunkenness, not in sexual promiscuity and lustful acts, and not in strife and jealousy.

Come, let’s deal wisely with them, lest they multiply, and it happen that when any war breaks out, they also join themselves to our enemies and fight against us, and escape out of the land.”

because you still exalt yourself against my people, that you won’t let them go.

Now I know that Yahweh is greater than all gods because of the way that they treated people arrogantly.”

They killed the kings of Midian with the rest of their slain: Evi, Rekem, Zur, Hur, and Reba, the five kings of Midian. They also killed Balaam the son of Beor with the sword.

As Yahweh your God lives, there is no nation or kingdom where my lord has not sent to seek you. When they said, ‘He is not here,’ he took an oath of the kingdom and nation, that they didn’t find you.

He has dug a hole, and has fallen into the pit which he made.

For, behold, the wicked bend their bows. They set their arrows on the strings, that they may shoot in darkness at the upright in heart.

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

Don’t let the foot of pride come against me. Don’t let the hand of the wicked drive me away.

Before your pots can feel the heat of the thorns, he will sweep away the green and the burning alike.

For the sin of their mouth, and the words of their lips, let them be caught in their pride, for the curses and lies which they utter.

because he didn’t remember to show kindness, but persecuted the poor and needy man, the broken in heart, to kill them.

Oh that my ways were steadfast to obey your statutes!

The proud have smeared a lie upon me. With my whole heart, I will keep your precepts.

The proud have dug pits for me, contrary to your law.

Ensure your servant’s well-being. Don’t let the proud oppress me.

The proud have hidden a snare for me, they have spread the cords of a net by the path. They have set traps for me.

The evil deeds of the wicked ensnare him. The cords of his sin hold him firmly.

He who diligently seeks good seeks favor, but he who searches after evil, it shall come to him.

Whoever digs a pit shall fall into it. Whoever rolls a stone, it will come back on him.

You said in your heart, “I will ascend into heaven! I will exalt my throne above the stars of God! I will sit on the mountain of assembly, in the far north!

Those who see you will stare at you. They will ponder you, saying, “Is this the man who made the earth to tremble, who shook kingdoms,

Behold, for peace I had great anguish, but you have in love for my soul delivered it from the pit of corruption; for you have cast all my sins behind your back.

then Azariah the son of Hoshaiah, Johanan the son of Kareah, and all the proud men spoke, saying to Jeremiah, “You speak falsely. Yahweh our God has not sent you to say, ‘You shall not go into Egypt to live there;’

But you have dishonored the poor man. Don’t the rich oppress you, and personally drag you before the courts?

They scoff and speak with malice. In arrogance, they threaten oppression.