For look, the wicked bend the bow. They fix their arrow on the bowstring so they can shoot from the shadows at those who are upright in heart.
In pride the wicked hotly hunts the poor. Let them be caught in the plots they have planned.
Do good, Adonai, to the good, and to those upright in their hearts.
I pour out my complaint before Him, before Him I tell my trouble.
Though they intended evil against You and devised a plot, they cannot succeed.
Be glad in Adonai and rejoice, you righteous, and shout for joy, all who are upright in heart.
The wicked have unsheathed their sword and have bent their bow to bring down the poor and needy, to slay those whose conduct is upright.
Then all men will fear. So they will declare the work of God, and ponder what He has done.
Please, end the evil of the wicked and sustain the righteous. A just God examines hearts and minds.
God is a righteous judge, a God who is indignant every day.
For rightness will be restored to justice, and all the upright in heart will follow it.
Light is sown for the righteous and gladness for the upright in heart.
Beware, everyone, of your neighbor! Don’t even trust a brother. For every brother grabs like Jacob and every neighbor spreads slander.
They plotted together in order that they might seize Yeshua by stealth and kill Him.
Saul thought, “I will give her to him, so that she may become a snare to him—and the hand of the Philistines will be against him.” So Saul said to David, “You can still become my son-in-law, even today, with the second one.”
Now David knew that Saul was plotting evil against him, so he said to Abiathar the kohen, “Bring the ephod.”