Psalms 59:3

They have also surrounded me with words of hatred, and fought against me without a cause.

Don’t be carried away by various and strange teachings, for it is good that the heart be established by grace, not by food, through which those who were so occupied were not benefited.

Don’t let those who are my enemies wrongfully rejoice over me; neither let those who hate me without a cause wink their eyes.

He first found his own brother, Simon, and said to him, “We have found the Messiah!” (which is, being interpreted, Christ).

Brothers, don’t be children in thoughts, yet in malice be babies, but in thoughts be mature.

But let him ask in faith, without any doubting, for he who doubts is like a wave of the sea, driven by the wind and tossed.

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

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

The fool’s talk brings a rod to his back, but the lips of the wise protect them.

Judah acknowledged them, and said, “She is more righteous than I, because I didn’t give her to Shelah, my son.” He knew her again no more.

David said to Saul, “Why do you listen to men’s words, saying, ‘Behold, David seeks to harm you?’

Now therefore, don’t let my blood fall to the earth away from the presence of Yahweh; for the king of Israel has come out to seek a flea, as when one hunts a partridge in the mountains.”

Then Saul said, “I have sinned. Return, my son David; for I will no more do you harm, because my life was precious in your eyes today. Behold, I have played the fool, and have erred exceedingly.”

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.

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

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

For they don’t speak peace, but they devise deceitful words against those who are quiet in the land.

For innumerable evils have surrounded me. My iniquities have overtaken me, so that I am not able to look up. They are more than the hairs of my head. My heart has failed me.

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

Don’t hold the iniquities of our forefathers against us. Let your tender mercies speedily meet us, for we are in desperate need.

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.

Jesus answered them, “Isn’t it written in your law, ‘I said, you are gods?’

When it was day, some of the Jews banded together, and bound themselves under a curse, saying that they would neither eat nor drink until they had killed Paul.

For we are not as so many, peddling the word of God. But as of sincerity, but as of God, in the sight of God, we speak in Christ.

Or did I commit a sin in humbling myself that you might be exalted, because I preached to you God’s Good News free of charge?

These are hidden rocky reefs in your love feasts when they feast with you, shepherds who without fear feed themselves; clouds without water, carried along by winds; autumn trees without fruit, twice dead, plucked up by the roots;

David stayed in the wilderness in the strongholds, and remained in the hill country in the wilderness of Ziph. Saul sought him every day, but God didn’t deliver him into his hand.

See therefore, and take knowledge of all the lurking places where he hides himself, and come again to me with certainty, and I will go with you. It shall happen, if he is in the land, that I will search him out among all the thousands of Judah.”

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.

Please forgive the trespass of your servant. For Yahweh will certainly make my lord a sure house, because my lord fights Yahweh’s battles. Evil will not be found in you all your days.

Yes, no one who waits for you will be shamed. They will be shamed who deal treacherously without cause.

You have loved righteousness, and hated wickedness. Therefore God, your God, has anointed you with the oil of gladness above your fellows.

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.

For they have conspired together with one mind. They form an alliance against you.

Behold, God our shield, look at the face of your anointed.

Yahweh preserves the simple. I was brought low, and he saved me.

Princes have persecuted me without a cause, but my heart stands in awe of your words.

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

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.

in whose heart is perverseness, who devises evil continually, who always sows discord.

He who justifies the wicked, and he who condemns the righteous, both of them alike are an abomination to Yahweh.

who acquit the guilty for a bribe, but deny justice for the innocent!

All we like sheep have gone astray. Everyone has turned to his own way; and Yahweh has laid on him the iniquity of us all.

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.

For Yahweh has ransomed Jacob, and redeemed him from the hand of him who was stronger than he.

Then Nebuchadnezzar the king sent to gather together the local governors, the deputies, and the governors, the judges, the treasurers, the counselors, the sheriffs, and all the rulers of the provinces, to come to the dedication of the image which Nebuchadnezzar the king had set up.

Whoever doesn’t fall down and worship shall be cast into the middle of a burning fiery furnace the same hour.”

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.

and let none of you devise evil in your hearts against his neighbor, and love no false oath: for all these are things that I hate,” says Yahweh.

But I tell you, love your enemies, bless those who curse you, do good to those who hate you, and pray for those who mistreat you and persecute you,

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

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

He said to them, “This is what I told you, while I was still with you, that all things which are written in the law of Moses, the prophets, and the psalms, concerning me must be fulfilled.”

Now we know that whatever things the law says, it speaks to those who are under the law, that every mouth may be closed, and all the world may be brought under the judgment of God.

But we have renounced the hidden things of shame, not walking in craftiness, nor handling the word of God deceitfully, but by the manifestation of the truth commending ourselves to every man’s conscience in the sight of God.

Put on the whole armor of God, that you may be able to stand against the wiles of the devil.

For everyone who lives on milk is not experienced in the word of righteousness, for he is a baby.

Beloved, don’t believe every spirit, but test the spirits, whether they are of God, because many false prophets have gone out into the world.

“I know your works, and your toil and perseverance, and that you can’t tolerate evil men, and have tested those who call themselves apostles, and they are not, and found them false.

Those who strive with Yahweh shall be broken to pieces. He will thunder against them in the sky. “Yahweh will judge the ends of the earth. He will give strength to his king, and exalt the horn of his anointed.”

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

Hear, Yahweh, my righteous plea; Give ear to my prayer, that doesn’t go out of deceitful lips.

He delivered me from my strong enemy, from those who hated me; for they were too mighty for me.

They fully intend to throw him down from his lofty place. They delight in lies. They bless with their mouth, but they curse inwardly.

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

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

The soul of the wicked desires evil; his neighbor finds no mercy in his eyes.

I listened and heard, but they didn’t say what is right. No one repents of his wickedness, saying, “What have I done?” Everyone turns to his course, as a horse that rushes headlong in the battle.

“ ‘Therefore the Lord Yahweh says: “Woe to the bloody city, to the cauldron whose rust is in it, and whose rust hasn’t gone out of it! Take out of it piece after piece. No lot is fallen on it.

Then Nebuchadnezzar the king was astonished, and rose up in haste. He spoke and said to his counselors, “Didn’t we cast three men bound into the middle of the fire?” They answered the king, “True, O king.”

The local governors, the deputies, and the governors, and the king’s counselors, being gathered together, saw these men, that the fire had no power on their bodies. The hair of their head wasn’t singed. Their pants weren’t changed, the smell of fire wasn’t even on them.

Then these men said, “We won’t find any occasion against this Daniel, unless we find it against him concerning the law of his God.”

But they insisted, saying, “He stirs up the people, teaching throughout all Judea, beginning from Galilee even to this place.”

Saul spoke to Jonathan his son, and to all his servants, that they should kill David. But Jonathan, Saul’s son, greatly delighted in David.

He said to David, “You are more righteous than I; for you have done good to me, whereas I have done evil to you.

He said, “Why does my lord pursue his servant? For what have I done? What evil is in my hand?

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

They also who seek after my life lay snares. Those who seek my hurt speak mischievous things, and meditate deceits all day long.

Listen to my cry, for I am in desperate need. Deliver me from my persecutors, for they are too strong for me.

Don’t devise evil against your neighbor, since he dwells securely by you.

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

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

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.

But this happened so that the word may be fulfilled which was written in their law, ‘They hated me without a cause.’

Therefore don’t yield to them, for more than forty men lie in wait for him, who have bound themselves under a curse to neither eat nor drink until they have killed him. Now they are ready, looking for the promise from you.”

that we may no longer be children, tossed back and forth and carried about with every wind of doctrine, by the trickery of men, in craftiness, after the wiles of error;