Psalms 140:1

He rescues me from my enemies. Yes, you lift me up above those who rise up against me. You deliver me from the violent man.

May Yahweh therefore be judge, and give sentence between me and you, and see, and plead my cause, and deliver me out of your hand.”

Judge me, Yahweh, for I have walked in my integrity. I have trusted also in Yahweh without wavering.

Rescue me, my God, from the hand of the wicked, from the hand of the unrighteous and cruel man.

After these things Yahweh’s word came to Abram in a vision, saying, “Don’t be afraid, Abram. I am your shield, your exceedingly great reward.”

May Yahweh judge between me and you, and may Yahweh avenge me of you; but my hand will not be on you.

who brings me away from my enemies. Yes, you lift me up above those who rise up against me. You deliver me from the violent man.

Yahweh will also be a high tower for the oppressed; a high tower in times of trouble.

Contend, Yahweh, with those who contend with me. Fight against those who fight against me.

Rachel said, “God has judged me, and has also heard my voice, and has given me a son.” Therefore she called his name Dan.

As for God, his way is perfect. Yahweh’s word is tested. He is a shield to all those who take refuge in him.

You will destroy those who speak lies. Yahweh abhors the bloodthirsty and deceitful man.

Return, Yahweh. Deliver my soul, and save me for your loving kindness’ sake.

Yahweh administers judgment to the peoples. Judge me, Yahweh, according to my righteousness, and to my integrity that is in me.

Arise, Yahweh, confront him. Cast him down. Deliver my soul from the wicked by your sword;

Evil shall kill the wicked. Those who hate the righteous shall be condemned.

Vindicate me, Yahweh my God, according to your righteousness. Don’t let them gloat over me.

Yahweh of Armies is with us. The God of Jacob is our refuge.

Yahweh of Armies is with us. The God of Jacob is our refuge.

But I will sing of your strength. Yes, I will sing aloud of your loving kindness in the morning. For you have been my high tower, a refuge in the day of my distress.

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

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

An evil speaker won’t be established in the earth. Evil will hunt the violent man to overthrow him.

Yahweh’s name is a strong tower: the righteous run to him, and are safe.

A man shall be as a hiding place from the wind, and a covert from the storm, as streams of water in a dry place, as the shade of a large rock in a weary land.

and has raised up a horn of salvation for us in the house of his servant David

Don’t speak against one another, brothers. He who speaks against a brother and judges his brother, speaks against the law and judges the law. But if you judge the law, you are not a doer of the law, but a judge.

“But if you will not do so, behold, you have sinned against Yahweh; and be sure your sin will find you out.

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.”

Someone told David, saying, “Ahithophel is among the conspirators with Absalom.” David said, “Yahweh, please turn the counsel of Ahithophel into foolishness.”

God is my rock in whom I take refuge; my shield, and the horn of my salvation, my high tower, and my refuge. My savior, you save me from violence.

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.

Give ear to my words, Yahweh. Consider my meditation.

You frustrate the plan of the poor, because Yahweh is his refuge.

Yahweh is my rock, my fortress, and my deliverer; my God, my rock, in whom I take refuge; my shield, and the horn of my salvation, my high tower.

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.

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

Vindicate me, God, and plead my cause against an ungodly nation. Oh, deliver me from deceitful and wicked men.

Deliver me from my enemies, my God. Set me on high from those who rise up against me.

For you have been a refuge for me, a strong tower from the enemy.

I am a marvel to many, but you are my strong refuge.

But God is the judge. He puts down one, and lifts up another.

Let’s come before his presence with thanksgiving. Let’s extol him with songs!

my loving kindness, my fortress, my high tower, my deliverer, my shield, and he in whom I take refuge, who subdues my people under me.

By the fruit of his lips, a man enjoys good things, but the unfaithful crave violence.

To be partial to the faces of the wicked is not good, nor to deprive the innocent of justice.

for Yahweh will plead their case, and plunder the life of those who plunder them.

for their Defender is strong. He will plead their case against you.

“Every word of God is flawless. He is a shield to those who take refuge in him.

Behold, God is my salvation. I will trust, and will not be afraid; for Yah, Yahweh, is my strength and song; and he has become my salvation.”

Yahweh, my strength, and my stronghold, and my refuge in the day of affliction, the nations will come to you from the ends of the earth, and will say, “Our fathers have inherited nothing but lies, vanity and things in which there is no profit.

Yahweh, you have seen my wrong. Judge my cause.

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.

salvation from our enemies and from the hand of all who hate us;

For I know nothing against myself. Yet I am not justified by this, but he who judges me is the Lord.

Again, “I will put my trust in him.” Again, “Behold, here I am with the children whom God has given me.”

Sarai said to Abram, “This wrong is your fault. I gave my servant into your bosom, and when she saw that she had conceived, she despised me. May Yahweh judge between me and you.”

Please deliver me from the hand of my brother, from the hand of Esau; for I fear him, lest he come and strike me and the mothers with the children.

He raises up the poor out of the dust. He lifts up the needy from the dunghill to make them sit with princes and inherit the throne of glory. For the pillars of the earth are Yahweh’s. He has set the world on them.

There happened to be there a wicked fellow, whose name was Sheba, the son of Bichri, a Benjamite; and he blew the trumpet, and said, “We have no portion in David, neither have we inheritance in the son of Jesse. Every man to his tents, Israel!”

He gives great deliverance to his king, and shows loving kindness to his anointed, to David and to his offspring, forever more.”

But you, Yahweh, are a shield around me, my glory, and the one who lifts up my head.

Hold them guilty, God. Let them fall by their own counsels. Thrust them out in the multitude of their transgressions, for they have rebelled against you.

For you will bless the righteous. Yahweh, you will surround him with favor as with a shield.

Behold, and answer me, Yahweh, my God. Give light to my eyes, lest I sleep in death;

He delivered me from my strong enemy, from those who hated me; for they were too mighty for me.

Consider my enemies, for they are many. They hate me with cruel hatred.

Now my head will be lifted up above my enemies around me. I will offer sacrifices of joy in his tent. I will sing, yes, I will sing praises to Yahweh.

But my enemies are vigorous and many. Those who hate me without reason are numerous.

Confuse them, Lord, and confound their language, for I have seen violence and strife in the city.

Hear my voice, God, in my complaint. Preserve my life from fear of the enemy.

He will redeem their soul from oppression and violence. Their blood will be precious in his sight.

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.

Who will rise up for me against the wicked? Who will stand up for me against the evildoers?

Consider my affliction, and deliver me, for I don’t forget your law.

Many are my persecutors and my adversaries. I haven’t swerved from your testimonies.

For my sword has drunk its fill in the sky. Behold, it will come down on Edom, and on the people of my curse, for judgment.

“ ‘Have you not heard how I have done it long ago, and formed it in ancient times? Now I have brought it to pass, that it should be yours to destroy fortified cities, turning them into ruinous heaps.

“ ‘You sword of Yahweh, how long will it be before you are quiet? Put yourself back into your scabbard; rest, and be still.’

Tell the land of Israel, ‘Yahweh says: “Behold, I am against you, and will draw my sword out of its sheath, and will cut off from you the righteous and the wicked.

I will strengthen the arms of the king of Babylon, and put my sword in his hand; but I will break the arms of Pharaoh, and he will groan before the king of Babylon with the groaning of a mortally wounded man.

Aren’t you from everlasting, Yahweh my God, my Holy One? We will not die. Yahweh, you have appointed him for judgment. You, Rock, have established him to punish.

You Cushites also, you will be killed by my sword.

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.