Psalms 11:2

Then your light will break out as the morning, and your healing will appear quickly; then your righteousness shall go before you, and Yahweh’s glory will be your rear guard.

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

If a man schemes and comes presumptuously on his neighbor to kill him, you shall take him from my altar, that he may die.

But if any man hates his neighbor, lies in wait for him, rises up against him, strikes him mortally so that he dies, and he flees into one of these cities;

Saul said to David, “Behold, my elder daughter Merab, I will give her to you as wife. Only be valiant for me, and fight Yahweh’s battles.” For Saul said, “Don’t let my hand be on him, but let the hand of the Philistines be on him.”

David said to Abiathar the priest, the son of Ahimelech, “Please bring the ephod here to me.” Abiathar brought the ephod to David.

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.

But the path of the righteous is like the dawning light that shines more and more until the perfect day.

“Listen to me, you who follow after righteousness, you who seek Yahweh. Look to the rock you were cut from, and to the quarry you were dug from.

The high priest, Ananias, commanded those who stood by him to strike him on the mouth.

God said, “Let there be light,” and there was light.

Cain said to Abel, his brother, “Let’s go into the field.” While they were in the field, Cain rose up against Abel, his brother, and killed him.

if I sharpen my glittering sword, my hand grasps it in judgment; I will take vengeance on my adversaries, and will repay those who hate me.

After all that generation were gathered to their fathers, another generation arose after them who didn’t know Yahweh, nor the work which he had done for Israel.

When Abiathar the son of Ahimelech fled to David to Keilah, he came down with an ephod in his hand.

When Abner was returned to Hebron, Joab took him aside into the middle of the gate to speak with him quietly, and struck him there in the body, so that he died, for the blood of Asahel his brother.

But Amasa took no heed to the sword that was in Joab’s hand. So he struck him with it in the body, and shed out his bowels to the ground, and didn’t strike him again; and he died. Joab and Abishai his brother pursued Sheba the son of Bichri.

Surely such are the dwellings of the unrighteous. This is the place of him who doesn’t know God.”

You will also decree a thing, and it will be established to you. Light will shine on your ways.

Keep back your servant also from presumptuous sins. Let them not have dominion over me. Then I will be upright. I will be blameless and innocent of great transgression.

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.

They looked to him, and were radiant. Their faces shall never be covered with shame.

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

From the end of the earth, I will call to you when my heart is overwhelmed. Lead me to the rock that is higher than I.

But let the righteous be glad. Let them rejoice before God. Yes, let them rejoice with gladness.

But God will strike through the head of his enemies, the hairy scalp of such a one as still continues in his guiltiness.

Be glad in Yahweh, you righteous people! Give thanks to his holy Name.

Light dawns in the darkness for the upright, gracious, merciful, and righteous.

He will not be afraid of evil news. His heart is steadfast, trusting in Yahweh.

Therefore my spirit is overwhelmed within me. My heart within me is desolate.

“For my people are foolish. They don’t know me. They are foolish children, and they have no understanding. They are skillful in doing evil, but they don’t know how to do good.”

Their tongue is a deadly arrow. It speaks deceit. One speaks peaceably to his neighbor with his mouth, but in his heart, he waits to ambush him.

seeing that you can verify that it is not more than twelve days since I went up to worship at Jerusalem.

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

Rejoice in the Lord always! Again I will say, “Rejoice!”

The archers have severely grieved him, shot at him, and persecuted him:

Pharaoh’s servants said to him, “How long will this man be a snare to us? Let the men go, that they may serve Yahweh, their God. Don’t you yet know that Egypt is destroyed?”

He shall stand before Eleazar the priest, who shall inquire for him by the judgment of the Urim before Yahweh. At his word they shall go out, and at his word they shall come in, both he and all the children of Israel with him, even all the congregation.”

You shall not pervert justice. You shall not show partiality. You shall not take a bribe, for a bribe blinds the eyes of the wise and perverts the words of the righteous.

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.”

His sons didn’t walk in his ways, but turned away after dishonest gain, took bribes, and perverted justice.

When his servants told David these words, it pleased David well to be the king’s son-in-law. Before the deadline,

One of the sons of Ahimelech, the son of Ahitub, named Abiathar, escaped, and fled after David.

The Jews had light, gladness, joy, and honor.

My shield is with God, who saves the upright in heart.

God is a righteous judge, yes, a God who has indignation every day.

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

In Yahweh, I take refuge. How can you say to my soul, “Flee as a bird to your mountain”?

For you will light my lamp, Yahweh. My God will light up my darkness.

You have also made my enemies turn their backs to me, that I might cut off those who hate me.

For you will make them turn their back, when you aim drawn bows at their face.

Oh keep my soul, and deliver me. Let me not be disappointed, for I take refuge in you.

Rejoice in Yahweh, you righteous! Praise is fitting for the upright.

Let those who favor my righteous cause shout for joy and be glad. Yes, let them say continually, “May Yahweh be magnified, who has pleasure in the prosperity of his servant!”

The wicked have drawn out the sword, and have bent their bow, to cast down the poor and needy, to kill those who are upright on the path.

He has put a new song in my mouth, even praise to our God. Many shall see it, and fear, and shall trust in Yahweh.

God, who is enthroned forever, will hear and answer them. They never change, who don’t fear God.

My soul is among lions. I lie among those who are set on fire, even the sons of men, whose teeth are spears and arrows, and their tongue a sharp sword.

The righteous shall rejoice when he sees the vengeance. He shall wash his feet in the blood of the wicked,

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.

who sharpen their tongue like a sword, and aim their arrows, deadly words,

Let my meditation be sweet to him. I will rejoice in Yahweh.

His offspring will be mighty in the land. The generation of the upright will be blessed.

You are good, and do good. Teach me your statutes.

“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.

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.”

For the children of Israel shall live many days without king, and without prince, and without sacrifice, and without sacred stone, and without ephod or idols.

I will bear the indignation of Yahweh, because I have sinned against him, until he pleads my case, and executes judgment for me. He will bring me out to the light. I will see his righteousness.

You offspring of vipers, how can you, being evil, speak good things? For out of the abundance of the heart, the mouth speaks.

They rose up, threw him out of the city, and led him to the brow of the hill that their city was built on, that they might throw him off the cliff.

Now he didn’t say this of himself, but being high priest that year, he prophesied that Jesus would die for the nation,

For he who sows to his own flesh will from the flesh reap corruption. But he who sows to the Spirit will from the Spirit reap eternal life.

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.

let’s draw near with a true heart in fullness of faith, having our hearts sprinkled from an evil conscience, and having our body washed with pure water,

having good behavior among the nations, so in that of which they speak against you as evildoers, they may by your good works, which they see, glorify God in the day of visitation.

Therefore since all these things will be destroyed like this, what kind of people ought you to be in holy living and godliness,

If he shoved him out of hatred, or hurled something at him while lying in wait, so that he died,

Saul said, I will give her to him, that she may be a snare to him, and that the hand of the Philistines may be against him. Therefore Saul said to David, “You shall today be my son-in-law a second time.”

David knew that Saul was devising mischief against him; and he said to Abiathar the priest, “Bring the ephod here.”

If a man doesn’t repent, he will sharpen his sword; he has bent and strung his bow.

He has also prepared for himself the instruments of death. He makes ready his flaming arrows.

In arrogance, the wicked hunt down the weak. They are caught in the schemes that they devise.

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

Be glad in Yahweh, and rejoice, you righteous! Shout for joy, all you who are upright in heart!

to shoot innocent men from ambushes. They shoot at him suddenly and fearlessly.

The righteous shall be glad in Yahweh, and shall take refuge in him. All the upright in heart shall praise him!

For judgment will return to righteousness. All the upright in heart shall follow it.

Light is sown for the righteous, and gladness for the upright in heart.

Do good, Yahweh, to those who are good, to those who are upright in their hearts.

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.

They took counsel together that they might take Jesus by deceit, and kill him.

After five days, the high priest, Ananias, came down with certain elders and an orator, one Tertullus. They informed the governor against Paul.