They devise clever schemes against Your people; they conspire against Your treasured ones.
he lurks in secret like a lion in a thicket. He lurks in order to seize the afflicted; he seizes the afflicted and drags him in his net.
Why do the nations rebel and the peoples plot in vain?
For He will conceal me in His shelter in the day of adversity; He will hide me under the cover of His tent; He will set me high on a rock.
You hide them in the protection of Your presence; You conceal them in a shelter from the schemes of men, from quarrelsome tongues.
They stir up strife, they lurk; they watch my steps while they wait to take my life.
Hide me from the scheming of wicked people, from the mob of evildoers,
The one who lives under the protection of the Most High dwells in the shadow of the Almighty.
Let us deal shrewdly with them; otherwise they will multiply further, and if war breaks out, they may join our enemies, fight against us, and leave the country.”
For you have died, and your life is hidden with the Messiah in God.
No blacksmith could be found in all the land of Israel, because the Philistines had said, “Otherwise, the Hebrews will make swords or spears.”