Day and night they go around upon its walls; wickedness and trouble are also in its midst.

Whoever secretly slanders his neighbor, I will annihilate; the one who has a haughty look and a proud heart, I will not endure.

All of you have conspired against me, and not one is disclosing in my ear that my son made a covenant with the son of Jesse; and not one of you is sorry for me nor is disclosing in my ear that my son has stirred up my servant against me, to lie in wait, as it is this day.

And he inquired of Jehovah for him, gave him provisions, and gave him the sword of Goliath the Philistine.

And David said to Saul: Why do you listen to the words of men who say, Behold David is seeking to hurt you?

For I have heard the whisperings of many, terror is all around. Proclaim, they say, and we will report it. Everyone at peace with me is watching for me to stumble and fall, saying, Perhaps he will be lured away, and we shall prevail against him, and shall take our revenge on him.

Then the whole multitude of them arose and led Him before Pilate.

And they began to accuse Him, saying, We found this one perverting the nation, and forbidding to give tribute to Caesar, saying that He Himself is Christ, a King.

But they were the more insistant, saying, He stirs up the people, teaching throughout all Judea, beginning from Galilee to this place.

i1 [To the chief Musician. Jonathelemrechokim. Michtam of David, when the Philistines took him in Gath.] i0 par Be merciful to me, O God, for man would swallow me up. Fighting daily, he oppresses me.

When I am afraid I trust in You.

My soul is among lions; I lie among the sons of men who are on fire, whose teeth are spears and arrows, and their tongue a sharp sword.

Do not go out into the field, nor walk by the way; for the sword of the enemy and fear are on every side.

And it happened on the next day that Pashur brought Jeremiah out of the stocks. Then Jeremiah said to him, Jehovah has not called your name Pashur, but Magor- Missabib.

For thus says Jehovah, Behold, I will make you a terror to yourself and to all your friends. And they shall fall by the sword of their enemies, and your eyes shall see it. And I will give all Judah into the hand of the king of Babylon, and he shall carry them captive into Babylon, and kill them with the sword.

You have summoned, as in an appointed day, my terrors all around; and there was not one who escaped, or a survivor in the day of Jehovah's anger. Those whom I have nursed and nurtured, my enemy has consumed.

And Saul sought to strike David to the wall with the spear, but he escaped away from Saul's presence; and he struck the spear into the wall. So David fled and escaped that night.

So Michal let David down through a window. And he went and fled and escaped.

So when Saul sent messengers to take David, she said, He is sick.

And when the messengers had come in, there was the image in the bed, with a quilt of goats' hair at the head.

And Saul threw a spear at him to kill him, by which Jonathan knew that it was determined by his father to kill David.

Then the Ziphites came up to Saul at Gibeah, saying, Is David not hiding with us in strongholds in the forest, in the hill of Hachilah, which is south of the desert?

Now therefore, O king, come down according to all the desire of your soul. Come down, and our part shall be to deliver him into the king's hand.

Moreover Ahithophel said to Absalom, Now let me choose twelve thousand men, and I shall arise and pursue David tonight.

Then I shall bring back all the people to you. When all return, except the man whom you seek, all the people shall be at peace.

But I was like a docile lamb being led to the slaughter. And I did not know that they had devised schemes against me, saying, Let us destroy the tree with its fruit, and let us cut him off from the land of the living, so that his name may be remembered no more.

Then the chief priests, the scribes, and the elders of the people assembled at the palace of the high priest, who was called Caiaphas,

and plotted to take Jesus by trickery and kill Him.

Now the chief priests, the elders, and all the council sought false testimony against Jesus to put Him to death,

When morning came, all the chief priests and elders of the people took counsel against Jesus to put Him to death.