Psalms 38:12

Blessed is the man who doesn’t walk in the counsel of the wicked, nor stand on the path of sinners, nor sit in the seat of scoffers;

for as he thinks about the cost, so he is. “Eat and drink!” he says to you, but his heart is not with you.

Let death come suddenly on them. Let them go down alive into Sheol. For wickedness is among them, in their dwelling.

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.

If he comes to see me, he speaks falsehood. His heart gathers iniquity to itself. When he goes abroad, he tells it.

They conspire and lurk, watching my steps. They are eager to take my life.

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.

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.

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.

For those who are such don’t serve our Lord, Jesus Christ, but their own belly; and by their smooth and flattering speech, they deceive the hearts of the innocent.

The wicked shall be turned back to Sheol, even all the nations that forget God.

His mouth is full of cursing, deceit, and oppression. Under his tongue is mischief and iniquity.

He is like a lion that is greedy of his prey, as it were a young lion lurking in secret places.

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.

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

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

For they don’t sleep unless they do evil. Their sleep is taken away, unless they make someone fall.

Then you will call, and Yahweh will answer. You will cry for help, and he will say, ‘Here I am.’ “If you take away from among you the yoke, finger pointing, and speaking wickedly;

I have spread out my hands all day to a rebellious people, who walk in a way that is not good, after their own thoughts;

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.

Woe to those who devise iniquity and work evil on their beds! When the morning is light, they practice it, because it is in the power of their hand.

He warned them, saying, “Take heed: beware of the yeast of the Pharisees and the yeast of Herod.”

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.

Of Zebulun, such as were able to go out in the army, who could set the battle in array, with all kinds of instruments of war: fifty thousand who could command and were not of double heart.

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

Don’t draw me away with the wicked, with the workers of iniquity who speak peace with their neighbors, but mischief is in their hearts.

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.

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

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

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.

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

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

My frame wasn’t hidden from you, when I was made in secret, woven together in the depths of the earth.

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.

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.

whose mouths speak deceit, whose right hand is a right hand of falsehood.

therefore this iniquity shall be to you like a breach ready to fall, swelling out in a high wall, whose breaking comes suddenly in an instant.

For even your brothers, and the house of your father, even they have dealt treacherously with you! Even they have cried aloud after you! Don’t believe them, though they speak beautiful words to you.

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;

“ ‘The Lord Yahweh says: “It will happen in that day that things will come into your mind, and you will devise an evil plan.

All the presidents of the kingdom, the deputies and the local governors, the counselors and the governors, have consulted together to establish a royal statute, and to make a strong decree, that whoever asks a petition of any god or man for thirty days, except of you, O king, he shall be cast into the den of lions.

As for both these kings, their hearts will be to do mischief, and they will speak lies at one table; but it won’t prosper, for the end will still be at the appointed time.

The godly man has perished out of the earth, and there is no one upright among men. They all lie in wait for blood; every man hunts his brother with a net.

They watched him, whether he would heal him on the Sabbath day, that they might accuse him.

The Pharisees went out, and immediately conspired with the Herodians against him, how they might destroy him.

lying in wait for him, and seeking to catch him in something he might say, that they might accuse him.

Let love be without hypocrisy. Abhor that which is evil. Cling to that which is good.

He is a double-minded man, unstable in all his ways.

Though men may rise up to pursue you, and to seek your soul, yet the soul of my lord will be bound in the bundle of life with Yahweh your God. He will sling out the souls of your enemies, as from the hollow of a sling.

Hide them in the dust together. Bind their faces in the hidden place.

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

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

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

But you, God, will bring them down into the pit of destruction. Bloodthirsty and deceitful men shall not live out half their days, but I will trust in you.

How long will you assault a man? Would all of you throw him down, like a leaning wall, like a tottering fence?

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

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

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

They gather themselves together against the soul of the righteous, and condemn the innocent blood.

Keep me from the snare which they have laid for me, from the traps of the workers of iniquity.

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

“How long, you simple ones, will you love simplicity? How long will mockers delight themselves in mockery, and fools hate knowledge?

a heart that devises wicked schemes, feet that are swift in running to mischief,

Sheol from beneath has moved for you to meet you at your coming. It stirs up the departed spirits for you, even all the rulers of the earth. It has raised up from their thrones all the kings of the nations.

But you are cast away from your tomb like an abominable branch, clothed with the slain, who are thrust through with the sword, who go down to the stones of the pit; like a dead body trodden under foot.

Jerusalem, wash your heart from wickedness, that you may be saved. How long will your evil thoughts lodge within you?

to take part in this ministry and apostleship from which Judas fell away, that he might go to his own place.”

For I don’t know what I am doing. For I don’t practice what I desire to do; but what I hate, that I do.

Saul said, I will give her to him, that she may be a snare to him, and that the hand of the Philistines may be against him. Therefore Saul said to David, “You shall today be my son-in-law a second time.”

Then Saul took three thousand chosen men out of all Israel, and went to seek David and his men on the rocks of the wild goats.

Then Saul arose, and went down to the wilderness of Ziph, having three thousand chosen men of Israel with him, to seek David in the wilderness of Ziph.

Then I sent to him, saying, “There are no such things done as you say, but you imagine them out of your own heart.”

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.

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

He plots iniquity on his bed. He sets himself in a way that is not good. He doesn’t abhor evil.

My enemies speak evil against me: “When will he die, and his name perish?”

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

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.

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

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

those who devise mischief in their hearts. They continually gather themselves together for war.

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.

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

The scribes and the Pharisees watched him, to see whether he would heal on the Sabbath, that they might find an accusation against him.

They watched him and sent out spies, who pretended to be righteous, that they might trap him in something he said, so as to deliver him up to the power and authority of the governor.