Psalms 140:5

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

Keep your heart with all diligence, for out of it is the wellspring of life.

Let no corrupt speech proceed out of your mouth, but only what is good for building others up as the need may be, that it may give grace to those who hear.

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

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.

He who believes in me, as the Scripture has said, from within him will flow rivers of living water.”

Let your speech always be with grace, seasoned with salt, that you may know how you ought to answer each one.

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;

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

Your tongue plots destruction, like a sharp razor, working deceitfully.

Daughter of my people, clothe yourself with sackcloth, and wallow in ashes! Mourn, as for an only son, most bitter lamentation, for the destroyer will suddenly come on us.

But I was like a gentle lamb that is led to the slaughter. I didn’t know that they had devised plans against me, saying, “Let’s destroy the tree with its fruit, and let’s cut him off from the land of the living, that his name may be no more remembered.”

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.

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

My eyes are ever on Yahweh, for he will pluck my feet out of the net.

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

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

For strangers have risen up against me. Violent men have sought after my soul. They haven’t set God before them.

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.

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

For he will deliver you from the snare of the fowler, and from the deadly pestilence.

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.

There is one who speaks rashly like the piercing of a sword, but the tongue of the wise heals.

“For this is the covenant that I will make with the house of Israel. After those days,” says the Lord; “I will put my laws into their mind, I will also write them on their heart. I will be their God, and they will be my people.

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

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

For there is no faithfulness in their mouth. Their heart is destruction. Their throat is an open tomb. They flatter with their tongue.

The nations have sunk down in the pit that they made. In the net which they hid, their own foot is taken.

He says in his heart, “God has forgotten. He hides his face. He will never see it.”

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

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

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.

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.

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.

They have also surrounded me with words of hatred, and fought against me without a cause.

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.

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

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

A lying tongue hates those it hurts; and a flattering mouth works ruin.

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!

For I have heard the defaming of many, “Terror on every side! Denounce, and we will denounce him!” say all my familiar friends, those who watch for my fall. “Perhaps he will be persuaded, and we will prevail against him, and we will take our revenge on him.”

Let that man be as the cities which Yahweh overthrew, and didn’t repent. Let him hear a cry in the morning, and shouting at noontime;

They have chased me relentlessly like a bird, those who are my enemies without cause.

For the priest’s lips should keep knowledge, and they should seek the law at his mouth; for he is the messenger of Yahweh of Armies.

speaking to one another in psalms, hymns, and spiritual songs; singing and making melody in your heart to the Lord;

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

So the tongue is also a little member, and boasts great things. See how a small fire can spread to a large forest!

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

You are to teach the children of Israel all the statutes which Yahweh has spoken to them by Moses.”

You shall come to the priests who are Levites and to the judge who shall be in those days. You shall inquire, and they shall give you the verdict.

He hired so that I would be afraid, do so, and sin, and that they might have material for an evil report, that they might reproach me.

For Yahweh knows the way of the righteous, but the way of the wicked shall perish.

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

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

Everyone lies to his neighbor. They speak with flattering lips, and with a double 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.

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

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

The wicked have waited for me, to destroy me. I will consider your statutes.

then the proud waters would have gone over our soul.

“Now therefore, speak to the men of Judah, and to the inhabitants of Jerusalem, saying, ‘Yahweh says: “Behold, I frame evil against you, and devise a plan against you. Everyone return from his evil way now, and amend your ways and your doings.” ’

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.

The king and his servants who heard all these words were not afraid, and didn’t tear their garments.

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.

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 cords of Sheol were around me. The snares of death caught me.

A snare will take him by the heel. A trap will catch him.

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

He lurks in secret as a lion in his ambush. He lies in wait to catch the helpless. He catches the helpless when he draws him in his net.

Pluck me out of the net that they have laid secretly for me, for you are my stronghold.

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

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.

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.

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

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

Don’t lay in wait, wicked man, against the habitation of the righteous. Don’t destroy his resting place;

A man who flatters his neighbor spreads a net for his feet.

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.”

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.

They sent some of the Pharisees and the Herodians to him, that they might trap him with words.