The Lord said to Cain, “Why are you angry, and why has your countenance fallen?
Psalm 64:2 - Revised Standard Version (RSV-CI) hide me from the secret plots of the wicked, from the scheming of evildoers, More versionsKing James Version (Oxford) 1769 Hide me from the secret counsel of the wicked; From the insurrection of the workers of iniquity: Amplified Bible - Classic Edition Hide me from the secret counsel and conspiracy of the ungodly, from the scheming of evildoers, American Standard Version (1901) Hide me from the secret counsel of evil-doers, From the tumult of the workers of iniquity; Common English Bible Hide me from the secret plots of wicked people; hide me from the schemes of evildoers Catholic Public Domain Version O God, a hymn adorns you in Zion, and a vow will be repaid to you in Jerusalem. Douay-Rheims version of The Bible - 1752 version A Hymn, O God, becometh thee in Sion: and a vow shall be paid to thee in Jerusalem. |
The Lord said to Cain, “Why are you angry, and why has your countenance fallen?
The kings of the earth set themselves, and the rulers take counsel together, against the Lord and his anointed, saying,
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,
Each will be like a hiding place from the wind, a covert from the tempest, like streams of water in a dry place, like the shade of a great rock in a weary land.
But I was like a gentle lamb led to the slaughter. I did not know it was against me they devised schemes, saying, “Let us destroy the tree with its fruit, let us cut him off from the land of the living, that his name be remembered no more.”
Yet, thou, O Lord, knowest all their plotting to slay me. Forgive not their iniquity, nor blot out their sin from thy sight. Let them be overthrown before thee; deal with them in the time of thine anger.
asking as a favor to have the man sent to Jerusalem, planning an ambush to kill him on the way.