They lay crafty plans against thy people; they consult together against thy protected ones.
They have taken crafty counsel against thy people, And consulted against thy hidden ones.
They lay crafty schemes against Your people and consult together against Your hidden and precious ones.
They take crafty counsel against thy people, And consult together against thy hidden ones.
They concoct crafty plans against your own people; they plot against the people you favor.
My soul longs and faints for the courts of the Lord. My heart and my flesh have exulted in the living God.
my soul longeth and fainteth for the courts of the Lord. My heart and my flesh have rejoiced in the living God.
he lurks in secret like a lion in his covert; he lurks that he may seize the poor, he seizes the poor when he draws him into his net.
Why do the nations conspire, and the peoples plot in vain?
For he will hide me in his shelter in the day of trouble; he will conceal me under the cover of his tent, he will set me high upon a rock.
In the covert of thy presence thou hidest them from the plots of men; thou holdest them safe under thy shelter from the strife of tongues.
They band themselves together, they lurk, they watch my steps. As they have waited for my life,
hide me from the secret plots of the wicked, from the scheming of evildoers,
He who dwells in the shelter of the Most High, who abides in the shadow of the Almighty,
Come, let us deal shrewdly with them, lest they multiply, and, if war befall us, they join our enemies and fight against us and escape from the land.”
For you have died, and your life is hid with Christ in God.
Now there was no smith to be found throughout all the land of Israel; for the Philistines said, “Lest the Hebrews make themselves swords or spears”;