For look! The wrong bend a bow, They set their arrow on the string, To shoot in darkness at the upright in heart.
“And they bend their tongue like a bow. Falsehood, and not truth, prevails on the earth. For they proceed from evil to evil, and they have not known Me,” declares יהוה.
The wrong have drawn the sword And have bent their bow, To cause the poor and needy to fall, To slay those who walk straightly.
For You make them turn their back, When You aim with Your bowstring toward their faces.
and plotted to seize יהושע by trickery and kill Him.
When my spirit grew faint within me, Then You know my path. In the way in which I walk They have hidden a trap for me.
Do good, O יהוה, to those who are good, And to those who are upright in their hearts.
Light is sown for the righteous, And gladness for the upright in heart.
For right-ruling returns man to righteousness, And all the upright in heart follow it.
The righteous rejoice in יהוה, And shall take refuge in Him, And all the upright in heart praise Him.
Be glad in יהוה and exult, you righteous; And shout for joy, all you upright in heart!
In arrogance the wrongdoer hotly pursues the poor; They are caught by the schemes which they devised.
If one does not repent! He sharpens His sword, He bends His bow and makes it ready,
My shield is upon Elohim, Who saves the upright in heart.
And Dawiḏ
And Sha’ul said, “Let me give her to him and let her be a snare to him, and the hand of the Philistines be against him.” So Sha’ul said to Dawiḏ