Why should I fear in the days of evil, When the crookedness of my supplanters surrounds me?
“Dan is a serpent by the way, an adder by the path, that bites the horse’s heels so that its rider falls backward.
For dogs have surrounded Me; A crowd of evil ones have encircled Me, Piercing My hands and My feet;
When I walk through the valley of the shadow of death, I fear no evil. For You are with me; Your rod and Your staff, they comfort me.
For my crookednesses have passed over my head; Like a heavy burden, too heavy for me.
I open my mouth in a parable; I utter riddles of old,
If you falter in the day of distress, Your strength is small!
The wrong one is entrapped In his own crookednesses, And he is caught in the cords of his sin.
“And they do not say to their hearts that I remember all their evil. Now their own deeds have surrounded them, they have been before Me.
Therefore the wise keep silent at that time, for it is an evil time.
And he took up his proverb and said, “Balaq the sovereign of Mo’aḇ
saying, ‘Do not be afraid, Sha’ul, you have to be brought before Caesar. And look, Elohim has favourably given you all those who sail with you.’
redeeming the time, because the days are wicked.
without being frightened in any way by those who oppose, which to them truly is a proof of destruction, but to you of deliverance, and that from Elohim.
“And now, do not let my blood fall to the earth before the face of יהוה. For the sovereign of Yisra’ĕ