So when God made me wander away from my father’s house, I said to her, ‘This is your loyalty that you must show me: in every place we go, say of me, ‘He is my brother.’”
Psalm 64:5 - Tree of Life Version to shoot from hiding at the innocent, shooting suddenly at him, with no fear. Tuilleadh leaganachaKing James Version (Oxford) 1769 They encourage themselves in an evil matter: They commune of laying snares privily; They say, Who shall see them? Amplified Bible - Classic Edition They encourage themselves in an evil purpose, they talk of laying snares secretly; they say, Who will discover us ? American Standard Version (1901) They encourage themselves in an evil purpose; They commune of laying snares privily; They say, Who will see them? Common English Bible They encourage themselves with evil words. They plan on laying traps in secret. “Who will be able to see them?” they ask. Catholic Public Domain Version Blessed is he whom you have chosen and taken up. He will dwell in your courts. We will be filled with the good things of your house. Holy is your temple: Douay-Rheims version of The Bible - 1752 version Blessed is he whom thou hast chosen and taken to thee: he shall dwell in thy courts. We shall be filled with the good things of thy house; holy is thy temple, |
So when God made me wander away from my father’s house, I said to her, ‘This is your loyalty that you must show me: in every place we go, say of me, ‘He is my brother.’”
Yet you say, ‘What does God know? Does He judge through such thick darkness?
He says in his heart: “God has forgotten. He hides His face—He will never see it.”
Our soul has escaped like a bird out of the snare of the trappers— the snare is broken, and we escaped!
Keep me safe, Adonai, from the clutches of the wicked. Protect me from the man of violence who planned to push me off my feet.
They return at evening, snarling like a dog, prowling about the city.
So they say: “Adonai does not see— the God of Jacob pays no attention.”
The enemy said, “I will pursue, I will overtake, I will divide the spoil. My lust shall gorge on them! I will draw my sword— my hand will destroy them.”
Then He said to me: “Son of man, do you see what the elders of the house of Israel do in the dark, every man in his chamber of his carved idol? For they say, ‘Adonai does not see us. Adonai has forsaken the land.’”
Come now, curse this people for me, because they are too strong for me! Perhaps I may be able to defeat them and drive them away from the country. I know that whoever you bless will be blessed and whoever you curse will be accursed!”
“Woe to you, Torah scholars and Pharisees, hypocrites! For you travel over land and sea to make one convert. And when he becomes one, you make him twice as much a son of Gehenna as yourself.
Those who dwell on the earth will rejoice over them. They will celebrate and send gifts to one another, because these two prophets tormented those who dwell on the earth.
But the people of the men of Israel rallied their strength and arrayed for battle again in the same place where they had arrayed themselves the first day.