Psalms 17:11

But this happened so that the word may be fulfilled which was written in their law, ‘They hated me without a cause.’

The Gazites were told, “Samson is here!” They surrounded him and laid wait for him all night in the gate of the city, and were quiet all the night, saying, “Wait until morning light; then we will kill him.”

For dogs have surrounded me. A company of evildoers have enclosed me. They have pierced my hands and feet.

Those who hate me without a cause are more than the hairs of my head. Those who want to cut me off, being my enemies wrongfully, are mighty. I have to restore what I didn’t take away.

They surrounded me, yes, they surrounded me. In Yahweh’s name I indeed cut them off.

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

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

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.

For, behold, the wicked bend their bows. They set their arrows on the strings, that they may shoot in darkness at the upright in heart.

Yes, no one who waits for you will be shamed. They will be shamed who deal treacherously without cause.

A dishonest man detests the righteous, and the upright in their ways detest the wicked.

You pierced the heads of his warriors with their own spears. They came as a whirlwind to scatter me, gloating as if to devour the wretched in secret.

They rose up, threw him out of the city, and led him to the brow of the hill that their city was built on, that they might throw him off the cliff.

having good behavior among the nations, so in that of which they speak against you as evildoers, they may by your good works, which they see, glorify God in the day of visitation.

Therefore since all these things will be destroyed like this, what kind of people ought you to be in holy living and godliness,

She spoke to him according to these words, saying, “The Hebrew servant, whom you have brought to us, came in to me to mock me,

So Michal let David down through the window. He went away, fled, and escaped.

Jonathan cried after the boy, “Go fast! Hurry! Don’t delay!” Jonathan’s boy gathered up the arrows, and came to his master.

The king said to Doeg, “Turn and attack the priests!” Doeg the Edomite turned, and he attacked the priests, and he killed on that day eighty-five people who wore a linen ephod.

David’s men said to him, “Behold, we are afraid here in Judah. How much more then if we go to Keilah against the armies of the Philistines?”

See therefore, and take knowledge of all the lurking places where he hides himself, and come again to me with certainty, and I will go with you. It shall happen, if he is in the land, that I will search him out among all the thousands of Judah.”

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.

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.

He said to David, “You are more righteous than I; for you have done good to me, whereas I have done evil to you.

He said, “Why does my lord pursue his servant? For what have I done? What evil is in my hand?

Absalom sent for Ahithophel the Gilonite, David’s counselor, from his city, even from Giloh, while he was offering the sacrifices. The conspiracy was strong; for the people increased continually with Absalom.

David said to all his servants who were with him at Jerusalem, “Arise! Let’s flee; or else none of us will escape from Absalom. Hurry to depart, lest he overtake us quickly, and bring down evil on us, and strike the city with the edge of the sword.”

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

Therefore he sent horses, chariots, and a great army there. They came by night, and surrounded the city.

Moreover Manasseh shed innocent blood very much, until he had filled Jerusalem from one end to another; in addition to his sin with which he made Judah to sin, in doing that which was evil in Yahweh’s sight.

Our God, will you not judge them? For we have no might against this great company that comes against us. We don’t know what to do, but our eyes are on you.”

He lies in wait near the villages. From ambushes, he murders the innocent. His eyes are secretly set against the helpless.

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.

Many bulls have surrounded me. Strong bulls of Bashan have encircled me.

As for me, I said in my haste, “I am cut off from before your eyes.” Nevertheless you heard the voice of my petitions when I cried to you.

All my bones shall say, “Yahweh, who is like you, who delivers the poor from him who is too strong for him; yes, the poor and the needy from him who robs him?”

Don’t let those who are my enemies wrongfully rejoice over me; neither let those who hate me without a cause wink their eyes.

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

The wicked have drawn out the sword, and have bent their bow, to cast down the poor and needy, to kill those who are upright on the path.

Deep calls to deep at the noise of your waterfalls. All your waves and your billows have swept over me.

Deliver me out of the mire, and don’t let me sink. Let me be delivered from those who hate me, and out of the deep waters.

They came around me like water all day long. They completely engulfed me.

They kill the widow and the alien, and murder the fatherless.

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

because he didn’t remember to show kindness, but persecuted the poor and needy man, the broken in heart, to kill them.

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

All the nations surrounded me, but in Yahweh’s name, I cut them off.

Let the proud be disappointed, for they have overthrown me wrongfully. I will meditate on your precepts.

then the waters would have overwhelmed us, the stream would have gone over our soul;

The bloodthirsty hate a man of integrity; and they seek the life of the upright.

But your eyes and your heart are only for your covetousness, for shedding innocent blood, for oppression, and for doing violence.”

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

The princes of Judah are like those who remove a landmark. I will pour out my wrath on them like water.

Gilead is a city of those who work iniquity; it is stained with blood.

Ephraim surrounds me with falsehood, and the house of Israel with deceit. Judah still strays from God, and is unfaithful to the Holy One.

You who have purer eyes than to see evil, and who cannot look on perversity, why do you tolerate those who deal treacherously, and keep silent when the wicked swallows up the man who is more righteous than he,

But I tell you that everyone who is angry with his brother without a cause will be in danger of the judgment. Whoever says to his brother, ‘Raca!’ will be in danger of the council. Whoever says, ‘You fool!’ will be in danger of the fire of Gehenna.

She went out, and said to her mother, “What shall I ask?” She said, “The head of John the Baptizer.”

Soon afterwards, he went about through cities and villages, preaching and bringing the good news of God’s Kingdom. With him were the twelve,

Now after these things, the Lord also appointed seventy others, and sent them two by two ahead of him into every city and place where he was about to come.

Which of the prophets didn’t your fathers persecute? They killed those who foretold the coming of the Righteous One, of whom you have now become betrayers and murderers.

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.”

For we don’t desire to have you uninformed, brothers, concerning our affliction which happened to us in Asia, that we were weighed down exceedingly, beyond our power, so much that we despaired even of life.

But you have dishonored the poor man. Don’t the rich oppress you, and personally drag you before the courts?

unlike Cain, who was of the evil one, and killed his brother. Why did he kill him? Because his deeds were evil, and his brother’s righteous.

They went up over the width of the earth, and surrounded the camp of the saints, and the beloved city. Fire came down out of heaven from God and devoured them.

Immediately an angel of the Lord struck him, because he didn’t give God the glory. Then he was eaten by worms and died.