Psalm 37:14 - The Scriptures 2009 Ḥet The wrong have drawn the sword And have bent their bow, To cause the poor and needy to fall, To slay those who walk straightly. Dugang nga mga bersyonKing James Version (Oxford) 1769 The wicked have drawn out the sword, and have bent their bow, To cast down the poor and needy, and to slay such as be of upright conversation. Amplified Bible - Classic Edition The wicked draw the sword and bend their bows to cast down the poor and needy, to slay those who walk uprightly (blameless in conduct and in conversation). American Standard Version (1901) The wicked have drawn out the sword, and have bent their bow, To cast down the poor and needy, To slay such as are upright in the way. Common English Bible The wicked draw their swords and bend their bows to bring down the weak and the needy, to slaughter those whose way is right. Catholic Public Domain Version But, like someone deaf, I did not hear. And I was like someone mute, not opening his mouth. Douay-Rheims version of The Bible - 1752 version But I, as a deaf man, heard not: and as a dumb man not opening his mouth. |
So his wife Zeresh and all his loved ones said to him, “Let a wooden structure be made, fifty cubits high, and in the morning speak to the sovereign that Mordeḵai be hanged on it. And go with the sovereign to the feast, rejoicing.” And the word pleased Haman, and he had the wooden structure made.
For look! The wrong bend a bow, They set their arrow on the string, To shoot in darkness at the upright in heart.
Let all my bones say, “יהוה, who is like You, Delivering the poor from one stronger than he, And the poor and the needy from him who robs him?”
Bloodthirsty men hate the perfect, And seek the life of the straight.
An unrighteous man Is an abomination to the righteous, And he who is straight in the way Is an abomination to the wrong.
You, whose eyes are too clean to see evil, You are not able to look on wrong. Why do You look on those who act treacherously – keep silent when the wrong devours one more righteous than he?
And when Kĕpha had come to himself, he said, “Now I truly know that יהוה has sent His messenger, and delivered me from the hand of Herodes and from all the Yehuḏi people were anticipating.”
And instantly a messenger of יהוה smote him, because he did not give the esteem to Elohim. And becoming worm-eaten, he died.
“Which of the prophets did your fathers not persecute? And they killed those who before announced the coming of the Righteous One, of whom you now have become the betrayers and murderers,
not as Qayin who was of the wicked one and killed his brother. And why did he kill him? Because his works were wicked but those of his brother were righteous.
“And my father, see! Yes, see the corner of your robe in my hand! For in that I cut off the corner of your robe, and did not kill you, know and see that there is neither evil nor rebellion in my hand, and I have not sinned against you, while you are hunting my life to take it.
And he said to Dawiḏ, “You are more righteous than I, for you have rewarded me with good, whereas I have rewarded you with evil.