Be not far from Me, For trouble [is] near; For [there is] none to help.

They gape at Me [with] their mouths, [Like] a raging and roaring lion.

When the wicked came against me To eat up my flesh, My enemies and foes, They stumbled and fell.

Then Jonathan, Saul's son, arose and went to David in the woods and strengthened his hand in God.

"Now therefore, send quickly and tell David, saying, 'Do not spend this night in the plains of the wilderness, but speedily cross over, lest the king and all the people who [are] with him be swallowed up.' "

"Rise, let us be going. See, My betrayer is at hand."

And while He was still speaking, behold, Judas, one of the twelve, with a great multitude with swords and clubs, came from the chief priests and elders of the people.

Seeing you hate instruction And cast My words behind you?

Yet they say to God, 'Depart from us, For we do not desire the knowledge of Your ways.

The fear of the LORD [is] the beginning of knowledge, [But] fools despise wisdom and instruction.

"How long, you simple ones, will you love simplicity? For scorners delight in their scorning, And fools hate knowledge.

One who turns away his ear from hearing the law, Even his prayer [is] an abomination.

But now in Christ Jesus you who once were far off have been brought near by the blood of Christ.

For He Himself is our peace, who has made both one, and has broken down the middle wall of separation,