Psalms 56:6

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;

No weapon that is formed against you will prevail; and you will condemn every tongue that rises against you in judgment. This is the heritage of Yahweh’s servants, and their righteousness is of me,” says Yahweh.

that you inquire after my iniquity, and search after my sin?

For I have heard the slander of many, terror on every side, while they conspire together against me, they plot to take away my life.

Yes, my own familiar friend, in whom I trusted, who ate bread with me, has lifted up his heel against me.

Hide me from the conspiracy of the wicked, from the noisy crowd of the ones doing evil;

But I was like a gentle lamb that is led to the slaughter. I didn’t know that they had devised plans against me, saying, “Let’s destroy the tree with its fruit, and let’s cut him off from the land of the living, that his name may be no more remembered.”

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.

For Yahweh’s eyes run back and forth throughout the whole earth, to show himself strong in the behalf of them whose heart is perfect toward him. You have done foolishly in this; for from now on you will have wars.”

“For his eyes are on the ways of a man. He sees all his goings.

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.

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.

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.

Deliver me from the workers of iniquity. Save me from the bloodthirsty men.

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.

For my enemies talk about me. Those who watch for my soul conspire together,

You search out my path and my lying down, and are acquainted with all my ways.

Deliver me, Yahweh, from my enemies. I flee to you to hide me.

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

For the ways of man are before Yahweh’s eyes. He examines all his paths.

who cause a person to be indicted by a word, and lay a snare for the arbiter in the gate, and who deprive the innocent of justice with false testimony.

A man shall be as a hiding place from the wind, and a covert from the storm, as streams of water in a dry place, as the shade of a large rock in a weary land.

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.

Then the Chaldeans spoke to the king in the Syrian language, “O king, live forever! Tell your servants the dream, and we will show the interpretation.”

and they bound him, and led him away, and delivered him up to Pontius Pilate, the governor.

Immediately in the morning the chief priests, with the elders and scribes, and the whole council, held a consultation, bound Jesus, carried him away, and delivered him up to Pilate.

As soon as it was day, the assembly of the elders of the people were gathered together, both chief priests and scribes, and they led him away into their council, saying,

asking a favor against him, that he would summon him to Jerusalem; plotting to kill him on the way.

that you may become blameless and harmless, children of God without defect in the middle of a crooked and perverse generation, among whom you are seen as lights in the world,

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.

having a good conscience. Thus, while you are spoken against as evildoers, they may be disappointed who curse your good way of life in Christ.

They saw him afar off, and before he came near to them, they conspired against him to kill him.

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.

Then Jezebel sent a messenger to Elijah, saying, “So let the gods do to me, and more also, if I don’t make your life as the life of one of them by tomorrow about this time!”

I said to the king, “Let the king live forever! Why shouldn’t my face be sad, when the city, the place of my fathers’ tombs, lies waste, and its gates have been consumed with fire?”

The kings of the earth take a stand, and the rulers take counsel together, against Yahweh, and against his Anointed, saying,

Yahweh, how my adversaries have increased! Many are those who rise up against me.

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

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

won’t God search this out? For he knows the secrets of the heart.

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.

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

He who diligently seeks good seeks favor, but he who searches after evil, it shall come to him.

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

Yahweh’s eyes are everywhere, keeping watch on the evil and the good.

Then I saw all the labor and achievement that is the envy of a man’s neighbor. This also is vanity and a striving after wind.

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

For my eyes are on all their ways. They are not hidden from my face. Their iniquity isn’t concealed from my eyes.

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.”

On the next day, Pashhur released Jeremiah out of the stocks. Then Jeremiah said to him, “Yahweh has not called your name Pashhur, but Magormissabib.

They answered Nebuchadnezzar the king, “O king, live for ever!

but have lifted up yourself against the Lord of heaven; and they have brought the vessels of his house before you, and you and your lords, your wives, and your concubines, have drunk wine from them. You have praised the gods of silver and gold, of bronze, iron, wood, and stone, which don’t see, or hear, or know; and you have not glorified the God in whose hand your breath is, and whose are all your ways.

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.

Then Daniel said to the king, “O king, live forever!

“Behold, we are going up to Jerusalem, and the Son of Man will be delivered to the chief priests and scribes, and they will condemn him to death,

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

When he went into the house of one of the rulers of the Pharisees on a Sabbath to eat bread, they were watching him.

They began to accuse him, saying, “We found this man perverting the nation, forbidding paying taxes to Caesar, and saying that he himself is Christ, a king.”

So the detachment, the commanding officer, and the officers of the Jews seized Jesus and bound him,

He hired so that I would be afraid, do so, and sin, and that they might have material for an evil report, that they might reproach me.

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.

All my familiar friends abhor me. They whom I loved have turned against me.

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

They conspire with cunning against your people. They plot against your cherished ones.

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.

arrogant eyes, a lying tongue, hands that shed innocent blood,

He who hides hatred has lying lips. He who utters a slander is a fool.

Don’t go out into the field or walk by the way; for the sword of the enemy and terror are on every side.

“Therefore Yahweh says concerning the men of Anathoth, who seek your life, saying, ‘You shall not prophesy in Yahweh’s name, that you not die by our hand;’

When he was in Benjamin’s gate, a captain of the guard was there, whose name was Irijah, the son of Shelemiah, the son of Hananiah; and he seized Jeremiah the prophet, saying, “You are defecting to the Chaldeans!”

‘Behold, all the women who are left in the king of Judah’s house will be brought out to the king of Babylon’s princes, and those women will say, “Your familiar friends have turned on you, and have prevailed over you. Your feet are sunk in the mire, they have turned away from you.”

If you are insulted for the name of Christ, you are blessed; because the Spirit of glory and of God rests on you. On their part he is blasphemed, but on your part he is glorified.

Our adversaries said, “They will not know or see, until we come in among them and kill them, and cause the work to cease.”

But now you count my steps. Don’t you watch over my sin?

Doesn’t he see my ways, and count all my steps?

The wicked watch the righteous, and seek to kill him.

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.

My God will go before me with his loving kindness. God will let me look at my enemies in triumph.

With which your enemies have mocked, Yahweh, with which they have mocked the footsteps of your anointed one.

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

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.

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

Don’t lay in wait, wicked man, against the habitation of the righteous. Don’t destroy his resting place;

Behold, they may gather together, but not by me. Whoever gathers together against you will fall because of you.

For I have heard the defaming of many, “Terror on every side! Denounce, and we will denounce him!” say all my familiar friends, those who watch for my fall. “Perhaps he will be persuaded, and we will prevail against him, and we will take our revenge on him.”

Then the presidents and the local governors sought to find occasion against Daniel as touching the kingdom; but they could find no occasion or fault, because he was faithful. There wasn’t any error or fault found in him.

Then these presidents and local governors assembled together to the king, and said this to him, “King Darius, live forever!

Then the chief priests, the scribes, and the elders of the people were gathered together in the court of the high priest, who was called Caiaphas.

Those who had taken Jesus led him away to Caiaphas the high priest, where the scribes and the elders were gathered together.

Now when morning had come, all the chief priests and the elders of the people took counsel against Jesus to put him to death:

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.