Psalms 25:19

Even though I walk through the valley of the shadow of death, I will fear no evil, for you are with me. Your rod and your staff, they comfort me.

Therefore Yahweh’s anger burns against his people, and he has stretched out his hand against them and has struck them. The mountains tremble, and their dead bodies are as refuse in the middle of the streets. For all this, his anger is not turned away, but his hand is still stretched out.

Won’t you revive us again, that your people may rejoice in you?

Don’t you be afraid, for I am with you. Don’t be dismayed, for I am your God. I will strengthen you. Yes, I will help you. Yes, I will uphold you with the right hand of my righteousness.

Our heart has not turned back, neither have our steps strayed from your path,

Break their teeth, God, in their mouth. Break out the great teeth of the young lions, Yahweh.

So that your beloved may be delivered, save with your right hand, and answer us.

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

He will call on me, and I will answer him. I will be with him in trouble. I will deliver him, and honor him.

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.”

But may the God of all grace, who called you to his eternal glory by Christ Jesus, after you have suffered a little while, perfect, establish, strengthen, and settle you.

After these things, God tested Abraham, and said to him, “Abraham!” He said, “Here I am.”

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.

Now for a little moment grace has been shown from Yahweh our God, to leave us a remnant to escape, and to give us a nail in his holy place, that our God may lighten our eyes, and revived us a little in our bondage.

Behold, he will kill me. I have no hope. Nevertheless, I will maintain my ways before him.

Have all the workers of iniquity no knowledge, who eat up my people as they eat bread, and don’t call on Yahweh?

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.

Unrighteous witnesses rise up. They ask me about things that I don’t know about.

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

Yahweh will preserve him, and keep him alive. He shall be blessed on the earth, and he will not surrender him to the will of his enemies.

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

His mouth was smooth as butter, but his heart was war. His words were softer than oil, yet they were drawn swords.

Behold, they spew with their mouth. Swords are in their lips, “For”, they say, “who hears us?”

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.

Then I thought, “I will appeal to this: the years of the right hand of the Most High.”

a false witness who utters lies, and he who sows discord among brothers.

A man who gives false testimony against his neighbor is like a club, a sword, or a sharp arrow.

Therefore the Lord will not rejoice over their young men, neither will he have compassion on their fatherless and widows; for everyone is profane and an evildoer, and every mouth speaks folly. For all this his anger is not turned away, but his hand is stretched out still.

They will only bow down under the prisoners, and will fall under the slain. For all this his anger is not turned away, but his hand is stretched out still.

“Behold, I am against you, destroying mountain,” says Yahweh, “which destroys all the earth. I will stretch out my hand on you, roll you down from the rocks, and will make you a burned mountain.

When they are heated, I will make their feast, and I will make them drunk, that they may rejoice, and sleep a perpetual sleep, and not wake up,” says Yahweh.

Now after John was taken into custody, Jesus came into Galilee, preaching the Good News of God’s Kingdom,

Being therefore exalted by the right hand of God, and having received from the Father the promise of the Holy Spirit, he has poured out this, which you now see and hear.

Blessed is a person who endures temptation, for when he has been approved, he will receive the crown of life, which the Lord promised to those who love him.

but nobody can tame the tongue. It is a restless evil, full of deadly poison.

If an unrighteous witness rises up against any man to testify against him of wrongdoing,

Now therefore, please let my lord the king hear the words of his servant. If it is so that Yahweh has stirred you up against me, let him accept an offering. But if it is the children of men, they are cursed before Yahweh; for they have driven me out today that I shouldn’t cling to Yahweh’s inheritance, saying, ‘Go, serve other gods!’

The arrogant will not stand in your sight. You hate all workers of iniquity.

Show your marvelous loving kindness, you who save those who take refuge by your right hand from their enemies.

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

You have also given me the shield of your salvation. Your right hand sustains me. Your gentleness has made me great.

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

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.

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

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?”

Lord, how long will you look on? Rescue my soul from their destruction, my precious life from the lions.

For they didn’t get the land in possession by their own sword, neither did their own arm save them; but your right hand, your arm, and the light of your face, because you were favorable to them.

Then my enemies shall turn back in the day that I call. I know this: that God is for me.

who sharpen their tongue like a sword, and aim their arrows, deadly words,

Valiant men lie plundered, they have slept their last sleep. None of the men of war can lift their hands.

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

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

They have sharpened their tongues like a serpent. Viper’s poison is under their lips.

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

The words of a gossip are like dainty morsels: they go down into a person’s innermost parts.

Death and life are in the power of the tongue; those who love it will eat its fruit.

The poor man and the oppressor have this in common: Yahweh gives sight to the eyes of both.

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.

The Syrians in front, and the Philistines behind; and they will devour Israel with open mouth. For all this, his anger is not turned away, but his hand is stretched out still.

Manasseh, Ephraim; and Ephraim, Manasseh; and they together shall be against Judah. For all this his anger is not turned away, but his hand is stretched out still.

All your enemies have opened their mouth wide against you. They hiss and gnash their teeth. They say, “We have swallowed her up. Certainly this is the day that we looked for. We have found it. We have seen it.”

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

Then he will turn his face toward the fortresses of his own land; but he will stumble and fall, and won’t be found.

Jesus went about in all Galilee, teaching in their synagogues, preaching the Good News of the Kingdom, and healing every disease and every sickness among the people.

and they found none. Even though many false witnesses came forward, they found none. But at last two false witnesses came forward,

On the next day, he was determined to go out into Galilee, and he found Philip. Jesus said to him, “Follow me.”

This beginning of his signs Jesus did in Cana of Galilee, and revealed his glory; and his disciples believed in him.

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.

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 Jonathan didn’t hear when his father commanded the people with the oath. Therefore he put out the end of the rod that was in his hand, and dipped it in the honeycomb, and put his hand to his mouth; and his eyes brightened.

Then Jonathan said, “My father has troubled the land. Please look how my eyes have brightened, because I tasted a little of this honey.

The arrogant mock me excessively, but I don’t swerve from your law.

For I will not contend forever, neither will I always be angry; for the spirit would faint before me, and the souls whom I have made.

Their tongue is a deadly arrow. It speaks deceit. One speaks peaceably to his neighbor with his mouth, but in his heart, he waits to ambush him.

But Yahweh of Armies, who tests the righteous, who sees the heart and the mind, let me see your vengeance on them, for I have revealed my cause to you.

“Brother will deliver up brother to death, and the father his child. Children will rise up against parents, and cause them to be put to death.

A man’s foes will be those of his own household.

“Their throat is an open tomb. With their tongues they have used deceit.” “The poison of vipers is under their lips.”

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.

Have mercy on me, Yahweh. See my affliction by those who hate me, and lift me up from the gates of death,

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

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.

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.

When evildoers came at me to eat up my flesh, even my adversaries and my foes, they stumbled and fell.

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

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

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

My enemies want to swallow me up all day long, for they are many who fight proudly against me.

My soul is among lions. I lie among those who are set on fire, even the sons of men, whose teeth are spears and arrows, and their tongue a sharp sword.

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.

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.

Though I walk in the middle of trouble, you will revive me. You will stretch out your hand against the wrath of my enemies. Your right hand will save me.

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

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.

For the enemy pursues my soul. He has struck my life down to the ground. He has made me live in dark places, as those who have been long dead.

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

But they insisted, saying, “He stirs up the people, teaching throughout all Judea, beginning from Galilee even to this place.”