Even though princes sit and speak against me, Your servant meditates on Your statutes.
I will meditate on Your precepts, and have respect unto Your ways.
Princes persecute me without cause, but my heart stands in awe of Your word.
When day came, the assembly of the elders of the people, both the chief priests and scribes, came together and led Him away to their council, saying,
For as long as the son of Jesse lives on the earth, neither you nor your kingdom will be established. Now, send and bring him to me, for he is a dead man.”