Psalms 35:7

Israel will be saved by Yahweh with an everlasting salvation. You will not be disappointed nor confounded to ages everlasting.

Yahweh is good to those who wait for him, to the soul who seeks him.

Kings shall be your foster fathers, and their queens your nursing mothers. They will bow down to you with their faces to the earth, and lick the dust of your feet. Then you will know that I am Yahweh; and those who wait for me shall not be disappointed.”

My soul, wait in silence for God alone, for my expectation is from him.

but those who wait for Yahweh will renew their strength. They will mount up with wings like eagles. They will run, and not be weary. They will walk, and not faint.

But as for me, I will look to Yahweh. I will wait for the God of my salvation. My God will hear me.

Wait for Yahweh. Be strong, and let your heart take courage. Yes, wait for Yahweh.

It shall be said in that day, “Behold, this is our God! We have waited for him, and he will save us! This is Yahweh! We have waited for him. We will be glad and rejoice in his salvation!”

But if we hope for that which we don’t see, we wait for it with patience.

Behold, as the eyes of servants look to the hand of their master, as the eyes of a maid to the hand of her mistress; so our eyes look to Yahweh, our God, until he has mercy on us.

But Yahweh is with me as an awesome mighty one. Therefore my persecutors will stumble, and they won’t prevail. They will be utterly disappointed, because they have not dealt wisely, even with an everlasting dishonor which will never be forgotten.

Our soul has waited for Yahweh. He is our help and our shield.

I will clothe his enemies with shame, but on himself, his crown will shine.”

Wait for Yahweh, and keep his way, and he will exalt you to inherit the land. When the wicked are cut off, you shall see it.

Yahweh brings the counsel of the nations to nothing. He makes the thoughts of the peoples to be of no effect.

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

Don’t let those who wait for you be shamed through me, Lord Yahweh of Armies. Don’t let those who seek you be brought to dishonor through me, God of Israel.

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;

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

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.

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.

David said to Saul, “Why do you listen to men’s words, saying, ‘Behold, David seeks to harm you?’

Now therefore, don’t let my blood fall to the earth away from the presence of Yahweh; for the king of Israel has come out to seek a flea, as when one hunts a partridge in the mountains.”

Yahweh, my God, if I have done this, if there is iniquity in my hands,

Let them be disappointed and confounded together who rejoice at my calamity. Let them be clothed with shame and dishonor who magnify themselves against me.

For innumerable evils have surrounded me. My iniquities have overtaken me, so that I am not able to look up. They are more than the hairs of my head. My heart has failed me.

My soul rests in God alone. My salvation is from him.

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

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.

Help me, Yahweh, my God. Save me according to your loving kindness;

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

but these lay in wait for their own blood. They lurk secretly for their own lives.

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.

Jesus answered them, “Isn’t it written in your law, ‘I said, you are gods?’

Or did I commit a sin in humbling myself that you might be exalted, because I preached to you God’s Good News free of charge?

The archers have severely grieved him, shot at him, and persecuted him:

David stayed in the wilderness in the strongholds, and remained in the hill country in the wilderness of Ziph. Saul sought him every day, but God didn’t deliver him into his hand.

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.

Please forgive the trespass of your servant. For Yahweh will certainly make my lord a sure house, because my lord fights Yahweh’s battles. Evil will not be found in you all your days.

May all my enemies be ashamed and dismayed. They shall turn back, they shall be disgraced suddenly.

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.

They who render evil for good are also adversaries to me, because I follow what is good.

For, behold, they lie in wait for my soul. The mighty gather themselves together against me, not for my disobedience, nor for my sin, Yahweh.

They encourage themselves in evil plans. They talk about laying snares secretly. They say, “Who will see them?”

that you may give him rest from the days of adversity, until the pit is dug for the wicked.

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

Princes have persecuted me without a cause, but my heart stands in awe of your words.

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.

The words of the wicked are about lying in wait for blood, but the speech of the upright rescues them.

All we like sheep have gone astray. Everyone has turned to his own way; and Yahweh has laid on him the iniquity of us all.

For wicked men are found among my people. They watch, as fowlers lie in wait. They set a trap. They catch men.

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!

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

Now we know that whatever things the law says, it speaks to those who are under the law, that every mouth may be closed, and all the world may be brought under the judgment of God.

Therefore putting away falsehood, speak truth each one with his neighbor. For we are members of one another.

My friends scoff at me. My eyes pour out tears to God,

For he is cast into a net by his own feet, and he wanders into its mesh.

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

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

You have commanded your statutes in righteousness. They are fully trustworthy.

I am for peace, but when I speak, they are for war.

The proud have hidden a snare for me, they have spread the cords of a net by the path. They have set traps for me.

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.

Continue steadfastly in prayer, watching in it with thanksgiving,

and they took him, and threw him into the pit. The pit was empty. There was no water in it.

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

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

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

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

to shoot innocent men from ambushes. They shoot at him suddenly and fearlessly.

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.

In return for my love, they are my adversaries; but I am in prayer.

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

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

All of your commandments are faithful. They persecute me wrongfully. Help me!

If they say, “Come with us. Let’s lay in wait for blood. Let’s lurk secretly for the innocent without cause.

Don’t be a witness against your neighbor without cause. Don’t deceive with your lips.

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