Psalms 57:6

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.

For the arms of the wicked shall be broken, but Yahweh upholds the righteous.

Be exalted, God, above the heavens! Let your glory be above all the earth!

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

Yahweh opens the eyes of the blind. Yahweh raises up those who are bowed down. Yahweh loves the righteous.

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;

According to what I have seen, those who plow iniquity, and sow trouble, reap the same.

I go mourning without the sun. I stand up in the assembly, and cry for help.

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

Though he stumble, he shall not fall, for Yahweh holds him up with his hand.

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

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.

So they hanged Haman on the gallows that he had prepared for Mordecai. Then the king’s wrath was pacified.

Yahweh, our Lord, how majestic is your name in all the earth! You have set your glory above the heavens!

Help, Yahweh; for the godly man ceases. For the faithful fail from among the children of men.

My eyes are ever on Yahweh, for he will pluck my feet out of the net.

I behaved myself as though it had been my friend or my brother. I bowed down mourning, as one who mourns his mother.

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.

From the end of the earth, I will call to you when my heart is overwhelmed. Lead me to the rock that is higher than I.

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

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.

Yahweh is high above all nations, his glory above the heavens.

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

He who digs a pit may fall into it; and whoever breaks through a wall may be bitten by a snake.

Through Yahweh of Armies’ wrath, the land is burned up; and the people are the fuel for the fire. No one spares his brother.

“Behold, I will send for many fishermen,” says Yahweh, “and they will fish them up. Afterward I will send for many hunters, and they will hunt them from every mountain, from every hill, and out of the clefts of the rocks.

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.

But seek first God’s Kingdom, and his righteousness; and all these things will be given to you as well.

For when they are saying, “Peace and safety,” then sudden destruction will come on them, like birth pains on a pregnant woman. Then they will in no way escape.

Then David arose, and all the people who were with him, and they passed over the Jordan. By the morning light there lacked not one of them who had not gone over the Jordan.

Then Harbonah, one of the eunuchs who were with the king said, “Behold, the gallows fifty cubits high, which Haman has made for Mordecai, who spoke good for the king, is standing at Haman’s house.” The king said, “Hang him on it!”

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

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

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

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.

Turn to me, and have mercy on me, for I am desolate and afflicted.

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.

I will ask God, my rock, “Why have you forgotten me? Why do I go mourning because of the oppression of the enemy?”

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

I remember God, and I groan. I complain, and my spirit is overwhelmed.

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

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

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

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

A lying tongue hates those it hurts; and a flattering mouth works ruin.

In that day you will say, “Give thanks to Yahweh! Call on his name. Declare his doings among the peoples. Proclaim that his name is exalted!

The righteous perish, and no one lays it to heart. Merciful men are taken away, and no one considers that the righteous is taken away from the evil.

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!

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.

“When my soul fainted within me, I remembered Yahweh. My prayer came in to you, into your holy temple.

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

You have sent widows away empty, and the arms of the fatherless have been broken.

They drive away the donkey of the fatherless, and they take the widow’s ox for a pledge.

For you are the God of my strength. Why have you rejected me? Why do I go mourning because of the oppression of the enemy?

When I said, “My foot is slipping!” Your loving kindness, Yahweh, held me up.

Hear my prayer, Yahweh! Let my cry come to you.

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

Hold me up, and I will be safe, and will have respect for your statutes continually.

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.

Let the wicked fall together into their own nets while I pass by.

Yahweh upholds all who fall, and raises up all those who are bowed down.

An evil man seeks only rebellion; therefore a cruel messenger shall be sent against him.

Yet was she carried away. She went into captivity. Her young children also were dashed in pieces at the head of all the streets, and they cast lots for her honorable men, and all her great men were bound in chains.

Pure religion and undefiled before our God and Father is this: to visit the fatherless and widows in their affliction, and to keep oneself unstained by the world.

Yes, you would even cast lots for the fatherless, and make merchandise of your friend.

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

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

Let destruction come on him unawares. Let his net that he has hidden catch himself. Let him fall into that destruction.

I am in pain and bowed down greatly. I go mourning all day long.

My God, my soul is in despair within me. Therefore I remember you from the land of the Jordan, the heights of Hermon, from the hill Mizar.

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

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.

Therefore my spirit is overwhelmed within me. My heart within me is desolate.

let them praise Yahweh’s name, for his name alone is exalted. His glory is above the earth and the heavens.

Whoever digs a pit shall fall into it. Whoever rolls a stone, it will come back on him.

Whoever causes the upright to go astray in an evil way, he will fall into his own trap; but the blameless will inherit good.

A man who flatters his neighbor spreads a net for his feet.

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.

Then the Pharisees went and took counsel how they might entrap him in his talk.