The words of good people are wise, and they are always fair.

Wicked people watch good people and try to kill them;

Put your hope in the LORD and obey his commands; he will honor you by giving you the land, and you will see the wicked driven out.

but later I passed by, and he wasn't there; I looked for him, but couldn't find him.

but sinners are completely destroyed, and their descendants are wiped out.

He helps them and rescues them; he saves them from the wicked, because they go to him for protection.

He will punish them for their wickedness and destroy them for their sins; the LORD our God will destroy them.

But evil people are doomed; what they have done to others will now be done to them.

The wicked plot against good people and glare at them with hate.

The wicked draw their swords and bend their bows to kill the poor and needy, to slaughter those who do what is right;

May those who make fun of me be dismayed by their defeat.

I will crush his foes and kill everyone who hates him.

Jonathan praised David to Saul and said, "Sir, don't do wrong to your servant David. He has never done you any wrong; on the contrary, everything he has done has been a great help to you.

He risked his life when he killed Goliath, and the LORD won a great victory for Israel. When you saw it, you were glad. Why, then, do you now want to do wrong to an innocent man and kill David for no reason at all?"

He said to the young man carrying his weapons, "Draw your sword and kill me, so that these godless Philistines won't gloat over me and kill me." But the young man was too terrified to do it. So Saul took his own sword and threw himself on it.

Ahab answered, "There is one more, Micaiah son of Imlah. But I hate him because he never prophesies anything good for me; it's always something bad." "You shouldn't say that!" Jehoshaphat replied.

So died King Ahab. His body was taken to Samaria and buried.

Now, his own people hated him, and so they sent messengers after him to say, 'We don't want this man to be our king.'

Now, as for those enemies of mine who did not want me to be their king, bring them here and kill them in my presence!' "

He came closer to the city, and when he saw it, he wept over it,

The time will come when your enemies will surround you with barricades, blockade you, and close in on you from every side.

The world cannot hate you, but it hates me, because I keep telling it that its ways are bad.

"If the world hates you, just remember that it has hated me first.

Remember what I told you: 'Slaves are not greater than their master.' If people persecuted me, they will persecute you too; if they obeyed my teaching, they will obey yours too.

They would not have been guilty of sin if I had not come and spoken to them; as it is, they no longer have any excuse for their sin.

who killed the Lord Jesus and the prophets, and persecuted us. How displeasing they are to God! How hostile they are to everyone!

They even tried to stop us from preaching to the Gentiles the message that would bring them salvation. In this way they have brought to completion all the sins they have always committed. And now God's anger has at last come down on them!

God will do what is right: he will bring suffering on those who make you suffer,

They will suffer the punishment of eternal destruction, separated from the presence of the Lord and from his glorious might,

"Do not use my name for evil purposes, for I, the LORD your God, will punish anyone who misuses my name.