Then Absalom said to Ahithophel, “Give your counsel. What should we do?”
Psalm 86:14 - Tree of Life Version God, the proud have risen up against me and a gang of ruthless people have sought my life, and have not set You before them. Tuilleadh leaganachaKing James Version (Oxford) 1769 O God, the proud are risen against me, And the assemblies of violent men have sought after my soul; And have not set thee before them. Amplified Bible - Classic Edition O God, the proud and insolent are risen against me; a rabble of violent and ruthless men has sought and demanded my life, and they have not set You before them. American Standard Version (1901) O God, the proud are risen up against me, And a company of violent men have sought after my soul, And have not set thee before them. Common English Bible The arrogant rise up against me, God. A gang of violent people want me dead. They don’t give a thought for you. |
Then Absalom said to Ahithophel, “Give your counsel. What should we do?”
Then Absalom and all the men of Israel said, “The counsel of Hushai the Archite is better than the counsel of Ahithophel.” For Adonai had ordained to thwart Ahithophel’s good counsel, so that Adonai might bring evil upon Absalom.
He says in his heart: “God has forgotten. He hides His face—He will never see it.”
Why does the wicked one revile God? He says in his heart: “You will never require anything.”
The wicked one, with his nose in the air, never seeks Him. All his thoughts are: “There is no God.”
The arrogant have viciously ridiculed me, yet I did not turn away from Your Torah.
Though the proud smeared a lie on me, with all my heart I keep Your precepts.
The proud have dug pits for me— that is not in accord with Your Torah!
“Will evildoers never understand— those who consume My people as they eat bread— and never call on Adonai?”
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.
Continue Your lovingkindness to those who know You, and Your justice to the upright in heart.
For strangers have risen up against me. Violent men seek after my soul. They do not set God before them. Selah
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.’”
He said to me, “The iniquity of the house of Israel and Judah is very, very great; the land is full of blood and the city is full of corruption. For they say, ‘Adonai has forsaken the land, Adonai does not see!’