Psalms 119:95

Your words were found, and I ate them. Your words were to me a joy and the rejoicing of my heart, for I am called by your name, Yahweh, God of Armies.

Jonathan spoke good of David to Saul his father, and said to him, “Don’t let the king sin against his servant, against David; because he has not sinned against you, and because his works have been very good toward you;

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

I delight to do your will, my God. Yes, your law is within my heart.”

They have prepared a net for my steps. My soul is bowed down. They dig a pit before me. They fall into the middle of it themselves.

Have all the workers of iniquity no knowledge, who eat up my people as they eat bread, and don’t call on Yahweh?

Yahweh’s law is perfect, restoring the soul. Yahweh’s covenant is sure, making wise the simple.

For they don’t speak peace, but they devise deceitful words against those who are quiet in the land.

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

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

Therefore he said that he would destroy them, had Moses, his chosen, not stood before him in the breach, to turn away his wrath, so that he wouldn’t destroy them.

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.

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

Nebuchadnezzar spoke and said, “Blessed be the God of Shadrach, Meshach, and Abednego, who has sent his angel, and delivered his servants who trusted in him, and have changed the king’s word, and have yielded their bodies, that they might not serve nor worship any god, except their own God.

My God has sent his angel, and has shut the lions’ mouths, and they have not hurt me; because as before him innocence was found in me; and also before you, O king, I have done no harm.”

But when he came to himself he said, ‘How many hired servants of my father’s have bread enough to spare, and I’m dying with hunger!

When it was day, some of the Jews banded together, and bound themselves under a curse, saying that they would neither eat nor drink until they had killed Paul.

They saw him afar off, and before he came near to them, they conspired against him to kill him.

Moses commanded us a law, an inheritance for the assembly of Jacob.

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

Yahweh’s angel encamps around those who fear him, and delivers them.

They reward me evil for good, to the bereaving of my soul.

Yahweh, truly I am your servant. I am your servant, the son of your servant girl. You have freed me from my chains.

I call a ravenous bird from the east, the man of my counsel from a far country. Yes, I have spoken. I will also bring it to pass. I have planned. I will also do it.

Then Yahweh said to me, “Though Moses and Samuel stood before me, yet my mind would not turn toward this people. Cast them out of my sight, and let them go out!

Then he will turn his face toward the fortresses of his own land; but he will stumble and fall, and won’t be found.

My people are destroyed for lack of knowledge. Because you have rejected knowledge, I will also reject you, that you may be no priest to me. Because you have forgotten your God’s law, I will also forget your children.

They watched him, whether he would heal him on the Sabbath day, that they might accuse him.

but their plot became known to Saul. They watched the gates both day and night that they might kill him,

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;

The men turned from there, and went toward Sodom, but Abraham stood yet before Yahweh.

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.

Why do you persecute me as God, and are not satisfied with my flesh?

Yahweh assigned my portion and my cup. You made my lot secure.

Yahweh’s precepts are right, rejoicing the heart. Yahweh’s commandment is pure, enlightening the eyes.

Behold, Yahweh’s eye is on those who fear him, on those who hope in his loving kindness,

Let those who seek after my soul be disappointed and brought to dishonor. Let those who plot my ruin be turned back and confounded.

Be merciful to me, God, for man wants to swallow me up. All day long, he attacks and oppresses me.

How long will you assault a man? Would all of you throw him down, like a leaning wall, like a tottering fence?

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

With my whole heart, I have sought you. Don’t let me wander from your commandments.

I have rejoiced in the way of your testimonies, as much as in all riches.

I will delight myself in your statutes. I will not forget your word.

Give me understanding, and I will keep your law. Yes, I will obey it with my whole heart.

Your hands have made me and formed me. Give me understanding, that I may learn your commandments.

Those who fear you will see me and be glad, because I have put my hope in your word.

For I have become like a wineskin in the smoke. I don’t forget your statutes.

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

Unless your law had been my delight, I would have perished in my affliction.

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

Therefore I love your commandments more than gold, yes, more than pure gold.

I rejoice at your word, as one who finds great plunder.

I have longed for your salvation, Yahweh. Your law is my delight.

I have gone astray like a lost sheep. Seek your servant, for I don’t forget your commandments.

I was glad when they said to me, “Let’s go to Yahweh’s house!”

This knowledge is beyond me. It’s lofty. I can’t attain it.

For wisdom will enter into your heart. Knowledge will be pleasant to your soul.

For her good profit is better than getting silver, and her return is better than fine gold.

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

He who digs a pit may fall into it; and whoever breaks through a wall may be bitten by a snake.

In all their affliction he was afflicted, and the angel of his presence saved them. In his love and in his pity he redeemed them. He bore them, and carried them all the days of old.

“Therefore don’t pray for this people. Don’t lift up a cry or prayer for them or make intercession to me; for I will not hear you.

Pour out your wrath on the nations that don’t know you, and on the families that don’t call on your name; for they have devoured Jacob. Yes, they have devoured him, consumed him, and have laid waste his habitation.

Should evil be recompensed for good? For they have dug a pit for my soul. Remember how I stood before you to speak good for them, to turn away your wrath from them.

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.

But if they are prophets, and if Yahweh’s word is with them, let them now make intercession to Yahweh of Armies, that the vessels which are left in Yahweh’s house, in the house of the king of Judah, and at Jerusalem, don’t go to Babylon.

Now when they had departed, behold, an angel of the Lord appeared to Joseph in a dream, saying, “Arise and take the young child and his mother, and flee into Egypt, and stay there until I tell you, for Herod will seek the young child to destroy him.”

When he went into the house of one of the rulers of the Pharisees on a Sabbath to eat bread, they were watching him.

When he had spent three months there, and a plot was made against him by Jews as he was about to set sail for Syria, he determined to return through Macedonia.

For I delight in God’s law after the inward man,

“This is the covenant that I will make with them: ‘After those days,’ says the Lord, ‘I will put my laws on their heart, I will also write them on their mind;’ ” then he says,

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,

the Lord knows how to deliver the godly out of temptation and to keep the unrighteous under punishment for the day of judgment,

This book of the law shall not depart from your mouth, but you shall meditate on it day and night, that you may observe to do according to all that is written in it; for then you shall make your way prosperous, and then you shall have good success.

When evildoers came at me to eat up my flesh, even my adversaries and my foes, they stumbled and fell.

The wicked watch the righteous, and seek to kill him.

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

Have the workers of iniquity no knowledge, who eat up my people as they eat bread, and don’t call on God?

Indeed your statutes are my delight, and my counselors.

I cling to your statutes, Yahweh. Don’t let me be disappointed.

The ropes of the wicked bind me, but I won’t forget your law.

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

Let your tender mercies come to me, that I may live; for your law is my delight.

I have taken your testimonies as a heritage forever, for they are the joy of my heart.

I am your servant. Give me understanding, that I may know your testimonies.

Your testimonies are wonderful, therefore my soul keeps them.

My soul has observed your testimonies. I love them exceedingly.

Turn to the law and to the covenant! If they don’t speak according to this word, surely there is no morning for them.

The scribes and the Pharisees watched him, to see whether he would heal on the Sabbath, that they might find an accusation against him.

lying in wait for him, and seeking to catch him in something he might say, that they might accuse him.

When Peter had come to himself, he said, “Now I truly know that the Lord has sent out his angel and delivered me out of the hand of Herod, and from everything the Jewish people were expecting.”

Therefore don’t yield to them, for more than forty men lie in wait for him, who have bound themselves under a curse to neither eat nor drink until they have killed him. Now they are ready, looking for the promise from you.”

asking a favor against him, that he would summon him to Jerusalem; plotting to kill him on the way.

Let the word of Christ dwell in you richly; in all wisdom teaching and admonishing one another with psalms, hymns, and spiritual songs, singing with grace in your heart to the Lord.