They take shrewd counsel against Your people; they plot against Your hidden ones.
He lies in wait secretly like a lion in his den; he lies in ambush to catch the poor one; he seizes the humble ones drawing him into his net;
Why have the nations raged and the peoples are meditating vanity?
For in the day of evil He shall hide me in His shelter; in the secrecy of His tabernacle He shall hide me; He shall set me up on a rock.
In the secrecy of Your presence You shall hide them from man’s plots; You shall cover them in a booth, from the strife of tongues.
They stir up strife; they hide; they observe my footprints as they wait for my soul.
Hide me from the counsel of those doing injury, from the tumult of doers of evil,
He who dwells in the secret place of the Most High shall abide in the shade of the Almighty.
Come, let us deal craftily towards them, lest they multiply and it shall be that when war occurs they will also add to our enemies, and will fight against us and go up from the land.
For you died, and your life has been hidden with Christ in God.
And there was no smith found throughout all the land of Israel, for the Philistines said, Lest the Hebrews make sword or spear.