Psalms 64:4

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.

Saul cast his spear at him to strike him. By this Jonathan knew that his father was determined to put David to death.

Pilate said to him, “What is truth?” When he had said this, he went out again to the Jews, and said to them, “I find no basis for a charge against him.

The eternal God is your dwelling place. Underneath are the everlasting arms. He thrust out the enemy from before you, and said, ‘Destroy!’

All the people were at strife throughout all the tribes of Israel, saying, “The king delivered us out of the hand of our enemies, and he saved us out of the hand of the Philistines; and now he has fled out of the land from Absalom.

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

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.

They have chased me relentlessly like a bird, those who are my enemies without cause.

Pilate therefore said to them, “Take him yourselves, and judge him according to your law.” Therefore the Jews said to him, “It is illegal for us to put anyone to death,”

But we made our prayer to our God, and set a watch against them day and night because of them.

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

My shield is with God, who saves the upright in heart.

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

He lies in wait near the villages. From ambushes, he murders the innocent. His eyes are secretly set against the helpless.

For you will make them turn their back, when you aim drawn bows at their face.

The wicked have drawn out the sword, and have bent their bow, to cast down the poor and needy, to kill those who are upright on the path.

God, who is enthroned forever, will hear and answer them. They never change, who don’t fear God.

who sharpen their tongue like a sword, and aim their arrows, deadly words,

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.

“They bend their tongue, as their bow, for falsehood. They have grown strong in the land, but not for truth; for they proceed from evil to evil, and they don’t know me,” says Yahweh.

“At the time of the end the king of the south will contend with him; and the king of the north will come against him like a whirlwind, with chariots, with horsemen, and with many ships. He will enter into the countries, and will overflow and pass through.

Yahweh will be seen over them; and his arrow will go flash like lightning; and the Lord Yahweh will blow the trumpet, and will go with whirlwinds of the south.

Then Pilate went out again, and said to them, “Behold, I bring him out to you, that you may know that I find no basis for a charge against him.”

and they took him, and threw him into the pit. The pit was empty. There was no water in it.

If he shoved him out of hatred, or hurled something at him while lying in wait, so that he died,

and Saul threw the spear, for he said, “I will pin David to the wall!” David escaped from his presence twice.

Saul said, I will give her to him, that she may be a snare to him, and that the hand of the Philistines may be against him. Therefore Saul said to David, “You shall today be my son-in-law a second time.”

Saul sought to pin David to the wall with the spear; but he slipped away out of Saul’s presence, and he stuck the spear into the wall. David fled, and escaped that night.

On the next day after the new moon, the second day, David’s place was empty. Saul said to Jonathan his son, “Why doesn’t the son of Jesse come to eat, either yesterday, or today?”

Jonathan answered Saul his father, and said to him, “Why should he be put to death? What has he done?”

David knew that Saul was devising mischief against him; and he said to Abiathar the priest, “Bring the ephod here.”

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.

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

They brought the head of Ishbosheth to David to Hebron, and said to the king, “Behold, the head of Ishbosheth, the son of Saul, your enemy, who sought your life! Yahweh has avenged my lord the king today of Saul, and of his offspring.”

Nathan said to David, “You are the man. This is what Yahweh, the God of Israel, says: ‘I anointed you king over Israel, and I delivered you out of the hand of Saul.

“This is what Yahweh says: ‘Behold, I will raise up evil against you out of your own house; and I will take your wives before your eyes, and give them to your neighbor, and he will lie with your wives in the sight of this sun.

David said to all his servants who were with him at Jerusalem, “Arise! Let’s flee; or else none of us will escape from Absalom. Hurry to depart, lest he overtake us quickly, and bring down evil on us, and strike the city with the edge of the sword.”

I will come on him while he is weary and exhausted, and will make him afraid. All the people who are with him will flee. I will strike the king only,

Then the people of the land weakened the hands of the people of Judah, and troubled them in building.

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

You renew your witnesses against me, and increase your indignation on me. Changes and warfare are with me.

If a man doesn’t repent, he will sharpen his sword; he has bent and strung his bow.

He has also prepared for himself the instruments of death. He makes ready his flaming arrows.

In arrogance, the wicked hunt down the weak. They are caught in the schemes that they devise.

For, behold, the wicked bend their bows. They set their arrows on the strings, that they may shoot in darkness at the upright in heart.

from the wicked who oppress me, my deadly enemies, who surround me.

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

in whose hands is wickedness, their right hand is full of bribes.

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

Be glad in Yahweh, and rejoice, you righteous! Shout for joy, all you who are upright in heart!

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

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

For your arrows have pierced me, your hand presses hard on me.

Let death come suddenly on them. Let them go down alive into Sheol. For wickedness is among them, in their dwelling.

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

But God will shoot at them. They will be suddenly struck down with an arrow.

The righteous shall be glad in Yahweh, and shall take refuge in him. All the upright in heart shall praise him!

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.

When God heard this, he was angry, and greatly abhorred Israel,

For judgment will return to righteousness. All the upright in heart shall follow it.

Light is sown for the righteous, and gladness for the upright in heart.

In return for my love, they are my adversaries; but I am in prayer.

Let the proud be disappointed, for they have overthrown me wrongfully. I will meditate on your precepts.

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

All of your commandments are faithful. They persecute me wrongfully. Help me!

Do good, Yahweh, to those who are good, to those who are upright in their hearts.

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.

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

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

For the backsliding of the simple will kill them. The careless ease of fools will destroy them.

Don’t be a witness against your neighbor without cause. Don’t deceive with your lips.

Because sentence against an evil work is not executed speedily, therefore the heart of the sons of men is fully set in them to do evil.

Who are they among all the gods of these countries that have delivered their country out of my hand, that Yahweh should deliver Jerusalem out of my hand?’ ”

Therefore disaster will come on you. You won’t know when it dawns. Mischief will fall on you. You won’t be able to put it away. Desolation will come on you suddenly, which you don’t understand.

“Moab has been at ease from his youth, and he has settled on his lees, and has not been emptied from vessel to vessel, neither has he gone into captivity: therefore his taste remains in him, and his scent is not changed.

But you, Bethlehem Ephrathah, being small among the clans of Judah, out of you one will come out to me that is to be ruler in Israel; whose goings out are from of old, from ancient times.

You pierced the heads of his warriors with their own spears. They came as a whirlwind to scatter me, gloating as if to devour the wretched in secret.

It will happen at that time, that I will search Jerusalem with lamps, and I will punish the men who are settled on their dregs, who say in their heart, “Yahweh will not do good, neither will he do evil.”

They took counsel together that they might take Jesus by deceit, and kill him.

So they called the man who was blind a second time, and said to him, “Give glory to God. We know that this man is a sinner.”

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

Pilate answered, “I’m not a Jew, am I? Your own nation and the chief priests delivered you to me. What have you done?”

When therefore the chief priests and the officers saw him, they shouted, saying, “Crucify! Crucify!” Pilate said to them, “Take him yourselves, and crucify him, for I find no basis for a charge against him.”

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.

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.”

After five days, the high priest, Ananias, came down with certain elders and an orator, one Tertullus. They informed the governor against Paul.

He is before all things, and in him all things are held together.

For you yourselves know well that the day of the Lord comes like a thief in the night.