Psalms 58:1

He will cover you with his feathers. Under his wings you will take refuge. His faithfulness is your shield and rampart.

Don’t judge according to appearance, but judge righteous judgment.”

For who is God, besides Yahweh? Who is a rock, besides our God?

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.

Yahweh is near to those who have a broken heart, and saves those who have a crushed spirit.

He will judge your people with righteousness, and your poor with justice.

Be merciful to me, Lord, for I call to you all day long.

Open your mouth, judge righteously, and serve justice to the poor and needy.”

Come, my people, enter into your rooms, and shut your doors behind you. Hide yourself for a little moment, until the indignation is past.

As they were multiplied, so they sinned against me. I will change their glory into shame.

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,

The chief priests therefore and the Pharisees gathered a council, and said, “What are we doing? For this man does many signs.

But Peter and the apostles answered, “We must obey God rather than men.

He said to them, “You yourselves know how it is an unlawful thing for a man who is a Jew to join himself or come to one of another nation, but God has shown me that I shouldn’t call any man unholy or unclean.

to whom we gave no place in the way of subjection, not for an hour, that the truth of the Good News might continue with you.

He said to Moses, “Come up to Yahweh, you, and Aaron, Nadab, and Abihu, and seventy of the elders of Israel; and worship from a distance.

Then Moses, Aaron, Nadab, Abihu, and seventy of the elders of Israel went up.

Moses went out, and told the people Yahweh’s words; and he gathered seventy men of the elders of the people, and set them around the Tent.

May Yahweh repay your work, and a full reward be given to you from Yahweh, the God of Israel, under whose wings you have come to take refuge.”

The men of Judah came, and there they anointed David king over the house of Judah. They told David, “The men of Jabesh Gilead were those who buried Saul.”

Let Zadok the priest and Nathan the prophet anoint him there king over Israel. Blow the trumpet, and say, ‘Long live king Solomon!’

Should even one who hates justice govern? Will you condemn him who is righteous and mighty?—

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

But you, Yahweh, are a shield around me, my glory, and the one who lifts up my head.

You will destroy those who speak lies. Yahweh abhors the bloodthirsty and deceitful man.

Those who know your name will put their trust in you, for you, Yahweh, have not forsaken those who seek you.

Keep me as the apple of your eye. Hide me under the shadow of your wings,

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.

How precious is your loving kindness, God! The children of men take refuge under the shadow of your wings.

For you have been my help. I will rejoice in the shadow of your wings.

I cry with my voice to Yahweh. With my voice, I ask Yahweh for mercy.

Yahweh is near to all those who call on him, to all who call on him in truth.

Then Jeremiah spoke to all the princes and to all the people, saying, “Yahweh sent me to prophesy against this house and against this city all the words that you have heard.

Seventy men of the elders of the house of Israel stood before them. In the middle of them Jaazaniah the son of Shaphan stood, every man with his censer in his hand; and the smell of the cloud of incense went up.

Seek Yahweh, all you humble of the land, who have kept his ordinances. Seek righteousness. Seek humility. It may be that you will be hidden in the day of Yahweh’s anger.

Therefore don’t be afraid of them, for there is nothing covered that will not be revealed; and hidden that will not be known.

“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,

Now very early in the morning, he came again into the temple, and all the people came to him. He sat down and taught them.

Annas sent him bound to Caiaphas, the high priest.

Peter opened his mouth and said, “Truly I perceive that God doesn’t show favoritism;

But the wisdom that is from above is first pure, then peaceful, gentle, reasonable, full of mercy and good fruits, without partiality, and without hypocrisy.

Go and gather the elders of Israel together, and tell them, ‘Yahweh, the God of your fathers, the God of Abraham, of Isaac, and of Jacob, has appeared to me, saying, “I have surely visited you, and seen that which is done to you in Egypt.

You shall have one kind of law for the foreigner as well as the native-born; for I am Yahweh your God.’ ”

So I took the heads of your tribes, wise and respected men, and made them heads over you, captains of thousands, captains of hundreds, captains of fifties, captains of tens, and officers, according to your tribes.

You shall make judges and officers in all your gates, which Yahweh your God gives you, according to your tribes; and they shall judge the people with righteous judgment.

The Rock: his work is perfect, for all his ways are just. A God of faithfulness who does no wrong, just and right is he.

Then Jephthah went with the elders of Gilead, and the people made him head and chief over them. Jephthah spoke all his words before Yahweh in Mizpah.

Don’t turn away to go after vain things which can’t profit or deliver, for they are vain.

Then Samuel took the horn of oil, and anointed him in the middle of his brothers. Then Yahweh’s Spirit came mightily on David from that day forward. So Samuel rose up and went to Ramah.

They both made a covenant before Yahweh. Then David stayed in the woods, and Jonathan went to his house.

Blessed is Yahweh your God, who delighted in you, to set you on the throne of Israel. Because Yahweh loved Israel forever, therefore he made you king, to do justice and righteousness.”

Jehoiada made a covenant between Yahweh and the king and the people, that they should be Yahweh’s people; also between the king and the people.

So all the elders of Israel came to the king to Hebron; and David made a covenant with them in Hebron before Yahweh; and they anointed David king over Israel, according to Yahweh’s word by Samuel.

He commanded them, saying, “You shall do this in the fear of Yahweh, faithfully, and with a perfect heart.

Give sincere homage to the Son, lest he be angry, and you perish on the way, for his wrath will soon be kindled. Blessed are all those who take refuge in him.

But I trust in your loving kindness. My heart rejoices in your salvation.

Preserve me, God, for I take refuge in you.

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.

Be merciful to me, God, be merciful to me, for my soul takes refuge in you. Yes, in the shadow of your wings, I will take refuge, until disaster has passed.

In Judah, God is known. His name is great in Israel.

He who dwells in the secret place of the Most High will rest in the shadow of the Almighty.

“Because he has set his love on me, therefore I will deliver him. I will set him on high, because he has known my name.

Those who trust in Yahweh are as Mount Zion, which can’t be moved, but remains forever.

I will bow down toward your holy temple, and give thanks to your Name for your loving kindness and for your truth; for you have exalted your Name and your Word above all.

but he will judge the poor with righteousness, and decide with equity for the humble of the earth. He will strike the earth with the rod of his mouth; and with the breath of his lips he will kill the wicked.

Who among you fears Yahweh and obeys the voice of his servant? He who walks in darkness and has no light, let him trust in Yahweh’s name, and rely on his God.

Seek Yahweh while he may be found. Call on him while he is near.

“In those days and at that time, I will cause a Branch of righteousness to grow up to David. He will execute justice and righteousness in the land.

“Jerusalem, Jerusalem, who kills the prophets, and stones those who are sent to her! How often I would have gathered your children together, even as a hen gathers her chicks under her wings, and you would not!

Unless those days had been shortened, no flesh would have been saved. But for the sake of the chosen ones, those days will be shortened.

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

Peter had followed him from a distance, until he came into the court of the high priest. He was sitting with the officers, and warming himself in the light of the fire.

in the high priesthood of Annas and Caiaphas, the word of God came to John, the son of Zacharias, in the wilderness.

But a certain one of them, Caiaphas, being high priest that year, said to them, “You know nothing at all,

and led him to Annas first, for he was father-in-law to Caiaphas, who was high priest that year.

I told him, “My lord, you know.” He said to me, “These are those who came out of the great suffering.They washed their robes, and made them white in the Lamb’s blood.

I saw the heaven opened, and behold, a white horse, and he who sat on it is called Faithful and True. In righteousness he judges and makes war.

He will wipe away every tear from their eyes. Death will be no more; neither will there be mourning, nor crying, nor pain, any more. The first things have passed away.”

Yahweh said to Moses, “Gather to me seventy men of the elders of Israel, whom you know to be the elders of the people and officers over them; and bring them to the Tent of Meeting, that they may stand there with you.

I commanded your judges at that time, saying, “Hear cases between your brothers and judge righteously between a man and his brother, and the foreigner who is living with him.

So all the elders of Israel came to the king to Hebron, and king David made a covenant with them in Hebron before Yahweh; and they anointed David king over Israel.

The God of Israel said, the Rock of Israel spoke to me, ‘One who rules over men righteously, who rules in the fear of God,

You sons of men, how long shall my glory be turned into dishonor? Will you love vanity and seek after falsehood?

Be merciful to me, God, for man wants to swallow me up. All day long, he attacks and oppresses me.

Deliver me from my enemies, my God. Set me on high from those who rise up against me.

We give thanks to you, God. We give thanks, for your Name is near. Men tell about your wondrous works.

Behold, a king shall reign in righteousness, and princes shall rule in justice.

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.

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

But Peter and John answered them, “Whether it is right in the sight of God to listen to you rather than to God, judge for yourselves,

When they heard this, they entered into the temple about daybreak and taught. But the high priest came, and those who were with him, and called the council together, and all the senate of the children of Israel, and sent to the prison to have them brought.

But when I saw that they didn’t walk uprightly according to the truth of the Good News, I said to Peter before them all, “If you, being a Jew, live as the Gentiles do, and not as the Jews do, why do you compel the Gentiles to live as the Jews do?

haven’t you shown partiality among yourselves, and become judges with evil thoughts?