Psalms 124:6

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.

Against whom has the king of Israel come out? Whom do you pursue? A dead dog? A flea?

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.

Jethro said, “Blessed be Yahweh, who has delivered you out of the hand of the Egyptians, and out of the hand of Pharaoh; who has delivered the people from under the hand of the Egyptians.

Saul went on this side of the mountain, and David and his men on that side of the mountain; and David hurried to get away for fear of Saul; for Saul and his men surrounded David and his men to take them.

Yahweh, keep me from the hands of the wicked. Preserve me from the violent men who have determined to trip my feet.

“Behold, I will send for many fishermen,” says Yahweh, “and they will fish them up. Afterward I will send for many hunters, and they will hunt them from every mountain, from every hill, and out of the clefts of the rocks.

Blessed be God Most High, who has delivered your enemies into your hand.” Abram gave him a tenth of all.

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.

When the woman of Tekoa spoke to the king, she fell on her face to the ground, showed respect, and said, “Help, O king!”

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

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

I will extol you, Yahweh, for you have raised me up, and have not made my foes to rejoice over me.

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.

Unless Yahweh had been my help, my soul would have soon lived in silence.

He said, “Blessed be Yahweh, the God of my master Abraham, who has not forsaken his loving kindness and his truth toward my master. As for me, Yahweh has led me on the way to the house of my master’s relatives.”

Jacob said, “Please, no, if I have now found favor in your sight, then receive my present at my hand, because I have seen your face, as one sees the face of God, and you were pleased with me.

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

He will keep the feet of his holy ones, but the wicked will be put to silence in darkness; for no man will prevail by strength.

David swore moreover, and said, “Your father knows well that I have found favor in your eyes; and he says, ‘Don’t let Jonathan know this, lest he be grieved;’ but truly as Yahweh lives, and as your soul lives, there is but a step between me and death.”

Moreover, my father, behold, yes, see the skirt of your robe in my hand; for in that I cut off the skirt of your robe, and didn’t kill you, know and see that there is neither evil nor disobedience in my hand, and I have not sinned against you, though you hunt for my life to take it.

You have declared today how you have dealt well with me, because when Yahweh had delivered me up into your hand, you didn’t kill me.

Tell him, ‘Long life to you! Peace be to you! Peace be to your house! Peace be to all that you have!

Though men may rise up to pursue you, and to seek your soul, yet the soul of my lord will be bound in the bundle of life with Yahweh your God. He will sling out the souls of your enemies, as from the hollow of a sling.

Then Abishai said to David, “God has delivered up your enemy into your hand today. Now therefore please let me strike him with the spear to the earth at one stroke, and I will not strike him the second time.”

Now therefore, don’t let my blood fall to the earth away from the presence of Yahweh; for the king of Israel has come out to seek a flea, as when one hunts a partridge in the mountains.”

on the third day, behold, a man came out of the camp from Saul, with his clothes torn, and earth on his head. When he came to David, he fell to the earth, and showed respect.

He bowed down, and said, “What is your servant, that you should look at such a dead dog as I am?”

Ahimaaz called, and said to the king, “All is well.” He bowed himself before the king with his face to the earth, and said, “Blessed is Yahweh your God, who has delivered up the men who lifted up their hand against my lord the king!”

Behold, the Cushite came. The Cushite said, “News for my lord the king, for Yahweh has avenged you today of all those who rose up against you.”

With the pure you will show yourself pure. With the crooked you will show yourself shrewd.

I will appoint a place for my people Israel, and will plant them, that they may dwell in their own place, and be moved no more. The children of wickedness will not waste them any more, as at the first,

When the captains of the chariots saw Jehoshaphat, they said, “It is the king of Israel!” Therefore they turned around to fight against him. But Jehoshaphat cried out, and Yahweh helped him; and God moved them to depart from him.

On the fourth day, they assembled themselves in Beracah Valley, for there they blessed Yahweh. Therefore the name of that place was called “Beracah Valley” to this day.

If indeed you will magnify yourselves against me, and plead against me my reproach,

let the enemy pursue my soul, and overtake it; yes, let him tread my life down to the earth, and lay my glory in the dust.

How long shall I take counsel in my soul, having sorrow in my heart every day? How long shall my enemy triumph over me?

lest my enemy say, “I have prevailed against him;” lest my adversaries rejoice when I fall.

from the wicked who oppress me, my deadly enemies, who surround me.

Now I know that Yahweh saves his anointed. He will answer him from his holy heaven, with the saving strength of his right hand.

My God, I have trusted in you. Don’t let me be shamed. Don’t let my enemies triumph over me.

Don’t deliver me over to the desire of my adversaries, for false witnesses have risen up against me, such as breathe out cruelty.

You have not shut me up into the hand of the enemy. You have set my feet in a large place.

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.

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

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

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

Don’t let them say in their heart, “Aha! That’s the way we want it!” Don’t let them say, “We have swallowed him up!”

By this I know that you delight in me, because my enemy doesn’t triumph over me.

Why should I fear in the days of evil, when iniquity at my heels surrounds me?

Behold, God is my helper. The Lord is the one who sustains my soul.

because of the voice of the enemy, because of the oppression of the wicked. For they bring suffering on me. In anger they hold a grudge against me.

He has redeemed my soul in peace from the battle that was against me, although there are many who oppose me.

Show me a sign of your goodness, that those who hate me may see it, and be shamed, because you, Yahweh, have helped me, and comforted me.

Not to us, Yahweh, not to us, but to your name give glory, for your loving kindness, and for your truth’s sake.

You pushed me back hard, to make me fall, but Yahweh helped me.

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

many times they have afflicted me from my youth up, yet they have not prevailed against me.

Yahweh takes pleasure in those who fear him, in those who hope in his loving kindness.

Rescue those who are being led away to death! Indeed, hold back those who are staggering to the slaughter!

Sing to Yahweh! Praise Yahweh, for he has delivered the soul of the needy from the hand of evildoers.

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.

The godly man has perished out of the earth, and there is no one upright among men. They all lie in wait for blood; every man hunts his brother with a net.

Don’t rejoice against me, my enemy. When I fall, I will arise. When I sit in darkness, Yahweh will be a light to me.

While he was still speaking, behold, Judas, one of the twelve, came, and with him a great multitude with swords and clubs, from the chief priests and elders of the people.

In that hour Jesus said to the multitudes, “Have you come out as against a robber with swords and clubs to seize me? I sat daily in the temple teaching, and you didn’t arrest me.

Having stripped the principalities and the powers, he made a show of them openly, triumphing over them in it.

Since then the children have shared in flesh and blood, he also himself in the same way partook of the same, that through death he might bring to nothing him who had the power of death, that is, the devil,