Then Adonai said to Cain, “Why are you angry? And why has your countenance fallen?
Psalm 64:2 - Tree of Life Version Hear my voice, O God, in my complaint. Protect my life from terror of the enemy. Tuilleadh leaganachaKing James Version (Oxford) 1769 Hide me from the secret counsel of the wicked; From the insurrection of the workers of iniquity: Amplified Bible - Classic Edition Hide me from the secret counsel and conspiracy of the ungodly, from the scheming of evildoers, American Standard Version (1901) Hide me from the secret counsel of evil-doers, From the tumult of the workers of iniquity; Common English Bible Hide me from the secret plots of wicked people; hide me from the schemes of evildoers Catholic Public Domain Version O God, a hymn adorns you in Zion, and a vow will be repaid to you in Jerusalem. Douay-Rheims version of The Bible - 1752 version A Hymn, O God, becometh thee in Sion: and a vow shall be paid to thee in Jerusalem. |
Then Adonai said to Cain, “Why are you angry? And why has your countenance fallen?
The kings of earth set themselves up and rulers conspire together against Adonai and against His Anointed One :
For in the day of trouble He will hide me in His sukkah, conceal me in the shelter of His tent, and set me high upon a rock.
How great is Your goodness, which You have stored up for those who fear You, which You have given to those who take refuge in You, before the children of men.
All day they twist my words. All their thoughts are against me for evil.
Deliver me from my enemies, my God! Set me on high, away from those who rise up against me.
Each will be like a refuge from the wind and a shelter from the storm, like streams of water in a dry place, like the shade of a massive rock in a weary land.
But I was like a gentle lamb led to slaughter. I did not know they had devised plots against me: “Let us destroy the tree with its fruit. Let us cut him off from the land of the living, so that his name will be no more remembered.”
Yet You know their whole plot, Adonai, against me to slay me. Do not forgive their iniquity or blot out their sin before You. But make them stumble before You. Act against them in the time of Your anger.
The Judean leaders also joined in the attack, affirming that these things were true.
asking a favor—to have Paul sent to Jerusalem, planning an ambush to kill him on the road.