Psalms 59:2

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;

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.

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

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.”

My soul, don’t come into their council. My glory, don’t be united to their assembly; for in their anger they killed men. In their self-will they hamstrung cattle.

It will be accomplished before his time. His branch will not be green.

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

Have all the workers of iniquity no knowledge, who eat up my people as they eat bread, and don’t call on Yahweh?

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.

Shall they escape by iniquity? In anger cast down the peoples, God.

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

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

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

The fear of Yahweh prolongs days, but the years of the wicked shall be shortened.

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.

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.

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

“Why do the wicked live, become old, yes, and grow mighty in power?

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.

Depart from me, all you workers of iniquity, for Yahweh has heard the voice of my weeping.

For evildoers shall be cut off, but those who wait for Yahweh shall inherit the land.

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

Let his days be few. Let another take his office.

Depart from me, you evildoers, that I may keep the commandments of my God.

It is time to act, Yahweh, for they break your law.

If only you, God, would kill the wicked. Get away from me, you bloodthirsty men!

Then he said to me, “The iniquity of the house of Israel and Judah is exceedingly great, and the land is full of blood, and the city full of perversion; for they say, ‘Yahweh has forsaken the land, and Yahweh doesn’t see.’

Then he will turn his face toward the fortresses of his own land; but he will stumble and fall, and won’t be found.

If Gilead is wicked, surely they are worthless. In Gilgal they sacrifice bulls. Indeed, their altars are like heaps in the furrows of the field.

Yahweh said to Cain, “Why are you angry? Why has the expression of your face fallen?

No one will miscarry or be barren in your land. I will fulfill the number of your days.

Why do you persecute me as God, and are not satisfied with my flesh?

They die in youth. Their life perishes among the unclean.

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

My God, my God, why have you forsaken me? Why are you so far from helping me, and from the words of my groaning?

Don’t gather my soul with sinners, nor my life with bloodthirsty men;

Deliver me from the guilt of bloodshed, O God, the God of my salvation. My tongue will sing aloud of your righteousness.

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

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

But God will strike through the head of his enemies, the hairy scalp of such a one as still continues in his guiltiness.

In your loving kindness, cut off my enemies, and destroy all those who afflict my soul, For I am your servant.

Don’t be envious of evil men, neither desire to be with them;

Woe to those who call evil good, and good evil; who put darkness for light, and light for darkness; who put bitter for sweet, and sweet for bitter!

Behold, for peace I had great anguish, but you have in love for my soul delivered it from the pit of corruption; for you have cast all my sins behind your back.

Justice is turned away backward, and righteousness stands far away; for truth has fallen in the street, and uprightness can’t enter.

Pour out your wrath on the nations that don’t know you, and on the families that don’t call on your name; for they have devoured Jacob. Yes, they have devoured him, consumed him, and have laid waste his habitation.

You are righteous, Yahweh, when I contend with you; yet I would like to reason the cause with you. Why does the way of the wicked prosper? Why are they all at ease who deal very treacherously?

As the partridge that sits on eggs which she has not laid, so is he who gets riches, and not by right. In the middle of his days, they will leave him. At his end, he will be a fool.

It was so, when they came into the middle of the city, that Ishmael the son of Nethaniah killed them, and cast them into the middle of the pit, he, and the men who were with him.

For the violence done to Lebanon will overwhelm you, and the destruction of the animals, which made them afraid; because of men’s blood, and for the violence done to the land, to every city and to those who dwell in them.

He shall flee to one of those cities, and shall stand at the entrance of the gate of the city, and declare his case in the ears of the elders of that city. They shall take him into the city with them, and give him a place, that he may live among them.

When Abner was returned to Hebron, Joab took him aside into the middle of the gate to speak with him quietly, and struck him there in the body, so that he died, for the blood of Asahel his brother.

There was a famine in the days of David for three years, year after year; and David sought the face of Yahweh. Yahweh said, “It is for Saul, and for his bloody house, because he put the Gibeonites to death.”

When he had departed from there, he met Jehonadab the son of Rechab coming to meet him. He greeted him, and said to him, “Is your heart right, as my heart is with your heart?” Jehonadab answered, “It is.” “If it is, give me your hand.” He gave him his hand; and he took him up to him into the chariot.

Esther said, “An adversary and an enemy, even this wicked Haman!” Then Haman was afraid before the king and the queen.

Is it not calamity to the unrighteous, and disaster to the workers of iniquity?

if the men of my tent have not said, ‘Who can find one who has not been filled with his meat?’

He has redeemed my soul from going into the pit. My life will see the light.’

He doesn’t preserve the life of the wicked, but gives justice to the afflicted.

When my enemies turn back, they stumble and perish in your presence.

Arise, Yahweh, confront him. Cast him down. Deliver my soul from the wicked by your sword;

The cords of death surrounded me. The floods of ungodliness made me afraid.

For dogs have surrounded me. A company of evildoers have enclosed me. They have pierced my hands and feet.

My God, I have trusted in you. Don’t let me be shamed. Don’t let my enemies triumph over me.

When evildoers came at me to eat up my flesh, even my adversaries and my foes, they stumbled and fell.

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.

Before your pots can feel the heat of the thorns, he will sweep away the green and the burning alike.

Surely you set them in slippery places. You throw them down to destruction.

Who will rise up for me against the wicked? Who will stand up for me against the evildoers?

They draw near who follow after wickedness. They are far from your law.

then they would have swallowed us up alive, when their wrath was kindled against us;

Sheol and Abaddon are before Yahweh— how much more then the hearts of the children of men!

Sheol and Abaddon are never satisfied; and a man’s eyes are never satisfied.

Don’t be too wicked, neither be foolish. Why should you die before your time?

He saw that there was no man, and wondered that there was no intercessor. Therefore his own arm brought salvation to him; and his righteousness sustained him.

“Run back and forth through the streets of Jerusalem, and see now, and know, and seek in its wide places, if you can find a man, if there is anyone who does justly, who seeks truth, then I will pardon her.

“I will deliver you out of the hand of the wicked, and I will redeem you out of the hand of the terrible.”

“Don’t let the swift flee away, nor the mighty man escape. In the north by the river Euphrates they have stumbled and fallen.

Gilead is a city of those who work iniquity; it is stained with blood.

Therefore the law is paralyzed, and justice never prevails; for the wicked surround the righteous; therefore justice comes out perverted.

“He who is not with me is against me, and he who doesn’t gather with me, scatters.

and will cut him in pieces, and appoint his portion with the hypocrites. That is where the weeping and grinding of teeth will be.

She went out, and said to her mother, “What shall I ask?” She said, “The head of John the Baptizer.”

But if a man walks in the night, he stumbles, because the light isn’t in him.”