They lay crafty plans against your people; they consult together against those you protect.
they lurk in secret like a lion in its den; they lurk that they may seize the poor; they seize the poor and drag them off in their net.
Why do the nations conspire and the peoples plot in vain?
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 on a rock.
In the shelter of your presence you hide them from human plots; you hold them safe under your shelter from contentious tongues.
They stir up strife; they lurk; they watch my steps, as they hoped to take my life.
Hide me from the secret plots of the wicked, from the scheming of evildoers,
You who live in the shelter of the Most High, who abide in the shadow of the Almighty,
Come, let us deal shrewdly with them, or they will increase and, in the event of war, join our enemies and fight against us and escape from the land.”
for you have died, and your life is hidden with Christ in God.
Now there was no smith to be found throughout all the land of Israel, for the Philistines said, “The Hebrews must not make swords or spears for themselves,”