Psalms 143:3

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.

Yahweh, my God, I take refuge in you. Save me from all those who pursue me, and deliver me,

A man’s steps are established by Yahweh. He delights in his way.

I sink in deep mire, where there is no foothold. I have come into deep waters, where the floods overflow me.

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.

Let them be disappointed who persecute me, but let not me be disappointed. Let them be dismayed, but don’t let me be dismayed. Bring on them the day of evil, and destroy them with double destruction.

“Why aren’t times laid up by the Almighty? Why don’t those who know him see his days?

My foot stands in an even place. In the congregations I will bless Yahweh.

Though he stumble, he shall not fall, for Yahweh holds him up with his hand.

Let them be disappointed and confounded together who seek after my soul to destroy it. Let them be turned backward and brought to dishonor who delight in my hurt.

Don’t let the flood waters overwhelm me, neither let the deep swallow me up. Don’t let the pit shut its mouth on me.

Don’t hold the iniquities of our forefathers against us. Let your tender mercies speedily meet us, for we are in desperate need.

Let them be disappointed and dismayed forever. Yes, let them be confounded and perish;

Saul said to Michal, “Why have you deceived me like this and let my enemy go, so that he has escaped?” Michal answered Saul, “He said to me, ‘Let me go! Why should I kill you?’ ”

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.

I have sewed sackcloth on my skin, and have thrust my horn in the dust.

A revelation is within my heart about the disobedience of the wicked: “There is no fear of God before his eyes.”

Let them be disappointed and confounded who seek my soul. Let those who desire my ruin be turned back in disgrace.

Let my accusers be disappointed and consumed. Let them be covered with disgrace and scorn who want to harm me.

They have burned your sanctuary to the ground. They have profaned the dwelling place of your Name.

You have laid me in the lowest pit, in the darkest depths.

Yahweh preserves the simple. I was brought low, and he saved me.

Let them be disappointed and turned backward, all those who hate Zion.

We grope for the wall like the blind. Yes, we grope as those who have no eyes. We stumble at noon as if it were twilight. Among those who are strong, we are like dead men.

For Yahweh has ransomed Jacob, and redeemed him from the hand of him who was stronger than he.

The crown has fallen from our head. Woe to us, for we have sinned!

“You, son of man, tell the house of Israel: ‘You say this, “Our transgressions and our sins are on us, and we pine away in them. How then can we live?” ’

I will multiply men on you, all the house of Israel, even all of it. The cities will be inhabited, and the waste places will be built.

Again he said to me, “Prophesy over these bones, and tell them, ‘You dry bones, hear Yahweh’s word.

“Therefore the Lord Yahweh says: ‘Now I will reverse the captivity of Jacob, and have mercy on the whole house of Israel. I will be jealous for my holy name.

The waters surrounded me, even to the soul. The deep was around me. The weeds were wrapped around my head.

Turn to the stronghold, you prisoners of hope! Even today I declare that I will restore double to you.

I took my staff Favor, and cut it apart, that I might break my covenant that I had made with all the peoples.

and will cast them into the furnace of fire. There will be the weeping and the gnashing of teeth.”

When your days are fulfilled, and you sleep with your fathers, I will set up your offspring after you, who will proceed out of your body, and I will establish his kingdom.

He has stripped me of my glory, and taken the crown from my head.

Oh let the wickedness of the wicked come to an end, but establish the righteous; their minds and hearts are searched by the righteous God.

Hear, Yahweh, my righteous plea; Give ear to my prayer, that doesn’t go out of deceitful lips.

My steps have held fast to your paths. My feet have not slipped.

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

He brought me out also into a large place. He delivered me, because he delighted in me.

You have enlarged my steps under me, My feet have not slipped.

Let me not be disappointed, Yahweh, for I have called on you. Let the wicked be disappointed. Let them be silent in Sheol.

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

He brought me up also out of a horrible pit, out of the miry clay. He set my feet on a rock, and gave me a firm place to stand.

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

You, who have shown us many and bitter troubles, you will let me live. You will bring us up again from the depths of the earth.

For your loving kindness is great toward me. You have delivered my soul from the lowest Sheol.

The cords of death surrounded me, the pains of Sheol got a hold of me. I found trouble and sorrow.

Establish my footsteps in your word. Don’t let any iniquity have dominion over me.

“As when one plows and breaks up the earth, our bones are scattered at the mouth of Sheol.”

Stretch out your hand from above, rescue me, and deliver me out of great waters, out of the hands of foreigners,

For of the wise man, even as of the fool, there is no memory forever, since in the days to come all will have been long forgotten. Indeed, the wise man must die just like the fool!

For the living know that they will die, but the dead don’t know anything, neither do they have any more a reward; for their memory is forgotten.

They will be gathered together, as prisoners are gathered in the pit, and will be shut up in the prison; and after many days they will be visited.

But Zion said, “Yahweh has forsaken me, and the Lord has forgotten me.”

Yet, Yahweh, you know all their counsel against me to kill me. Don’t forgive their iniquity. Don’t blot out their sin from your sight, Let them be overthrown before you. Deal with them in the time of your anger.

“At that time,” says Yahweh, “I will be the God of all the families of Israel, and they will be my people.”

Then they took Jeremiah and threw him into the dungeon of Malchijah the king’s son, that was in the court of the guard. They let down Jeremiah with cords. In the dungeon there was no water, but mire; and Jeremiah sank in the mire.

I said, “My strength has perished, along with my expectation from Yahweh.”

Waters flowed over my head. I said, “I am cut off.”

He caused me to pass by them all around: and behold, there were very many in the open valley; and behold, they were very dry.

As for you also, because of the blood of your covenant, I have set free your prisoners from the pit in which is no water.

Jesus therefore said to them, “My time has not yet come, but your time is always ready.

He said to them, “It isn’t for you to know times or seasons which the Father has set within his own authority.

whom God raised up, having freed him from the agony of death, because it was not possible that he should be held by it.

You were made alive when you were dead in transgressions and sins,

But we don’t want you to be ignorant, brothers, concerning those who have fallen asleep, so that you don’t grieve like the rest, who have no hope.

Abner said again to Asahel, “Turn away from following me. Why should I strike you to the ground? How then could I look Joab your brother in the face?”

David said to Abishai, and to all his servants, “Behold, my son, who came out of my bowels, seeks my life. How much more this Benjamite, now? Leave him alone, and let him curse; for Yahweh has invited him.

Joab said to the man who told him, “Behold, you saw it, and why didn’t you strike him there to the ground? I would have given you ten pieces of silver, and a sash.”

Many there are who say of my soul, “There is no help for him in God.”

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.

Yahweh examines the righteous, but his soul hates the wicked and him who loves violence.

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

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

My times are in your hand. Deliver me from the hand of my enemies, and from those who persecute me.

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

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

There they were in great fear, where no fear was, for God has scattered the bones of him who encamps against you. You have put them to shame, because God has rejected them.

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

Are your wonders made known in the dark? Or your righteousness in the land of forgetfulness?

You have renounced the covenant of your servant. You have defiled his crown in the dust.

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.

Out of the depths I have cried to you, Yahweh.

Deliver me, Yahweh, from the evil man. Preserve me from the violent man:

Listen to my cry, for I am in desperate need. Deliver me from my persecutors, for they are too strong for me.

Make the path of your feet level. Let all of your ways be established.

Behold, for peace I had great anguish, but you have in love for my soul delivered it from the pit of corruption; for you have cast all my sins behind your back.

“I have trodden the wine press alone. Of the peoples, no one was with me. Yes, I trod them in my anger and trampled them in my wrath. Their lifeblood is sprinkled on my garments, and I have stained all my clothing.

He has made me dwell in dark places, as those who have been long dead.

Then he said to me, “Son of man, these bones are the whole house of Israel. Behold, they say, ‘Our bones are dried up, and our hope is lost. We are completely cut off.’

They shall be as mighty men, treading down muddy streets in the battle; and they shall fight, because Yahweh is with them; and the riders on horses will be confounded.

The chief priests and the scribes sought how they might put him to death, for they feared the people.