O LORD, my defender, I call to you. Listen to my cry! If you do not answer me, I will be among those who go down to the world of the dead.

Do not condemn me with the wicked, with those who do evil--- those whose words are friendly, but who have hatred in their hearts.

If anyone should attack you and try to kill you, the LORD your God will keep you safe, as someone guards a precious treasure. As for your enemies, however, he will throw them away, as someone hurls stones with a sling.

Once again my people will see the difference between what happens to the righteous and to the wicked, to the person who serves me and the one who does not."

The master will cut him in pieces and make him share the fate of the hypocrites. There he will cry and gnash his teeth.

and the people of all the nations will be gathered before him. Then he will divide them into two groups, just as a shepherd separates the sheep from the goats.

Then they will answer him, 'When, Lord, did we ever see you hungry or thirsty or a stranger or naked or sick or in prison, and we would not help you?'

These, then, will be sent off to eternal punishment, but the righteous will go to eternal life."

Happy are those who wash their robes clean and so have the right to eat the fruit from the tree of life and to go through the gates into the city.

But outside the city are the perverts and those who practice magic, the immoral and the murderers, those who worship idols and those who are liars both in words and deeds.

Spare my life, O God, and save me, and I will gladly proclaim your righteousness.

But you, O God, will bring those murderers and liars to their graves before half their life is over. As for me, I will trust in you.

O God, how I wish you would kill the wicked! How I wish violent people would leave me alone!

So Saul said to Doeg, "You kill them!"---and Doeg killed them all. On that day he killed eighty-five priests who were qualified to carry the ephod.

Saul also had all the other inhabitants of Nob, the city of priests, put to death: men and women, children and babies, cattle, donkeys, and sheep---they were all killed.

Shimei cursed him and said, "Get out! Get out! Murderer! Criminal!

During David's reign there was a severe famine which lasted for three full years. So David consulted the LORD about it, and the LORD said, "Saul and his family are guilty of murder; he put the people of Gibeon to death."