¹²¹ <AIN> I have done what is good and right: you will not give me into the hands of those who are working against me.

¹⁵ And David was king over all Israel, judging and giving right decisions for all his people.

⁹ The Lord is able to keep the upright safe in the time of testing, and to keep evil-doers under punishment till the day of judging;

¹² For our glory is in this, in the knowledge which we have that our way of life in the world, and most of all in relation to you, has been holy and true in the eyes of God; not in the wisdom of the flesh, but in the grace of God.

¹⁰ And Paul said, I am before the seat of Caesar's authority where it is right for me to be judged: I have done no wrong to the Jews, as you are well able to see.

¹¹ If, then, I am a wrongdoer and there is a cause of death in me, I am ready for death: if it is not as they say against me, no man may give me up to them. Let my cause come before Caesar.

¹⁶ And some of the disciples from Caesarea went with us, taking a certain Mnason of Cyprus, one of the early disciples, in whose house we were to be living.

² When the right time has come, I will be the judge in righteousness.

³ He will send from heaven, and take me from the power of him whose desire is for my destruction. God will send out his mercy and his good faith.

⁴ My soul is among lions; I am stretched out among those who are on fire, even the sons of men, whose teeth are spears and arrows, and whose tongue is a sharp sword.

³³ The Lord will not give him into their hands, or be against him when he is judged.

²⁰ The Lord gives me the reward of my righteousness, because my hands are clean before him.

²¹ For I have kept the ways of the Lord; I have not been turned away in sin from my God.

²² For all his decisions were before me, and I did not put away his laws from me.

²³ And I was upright before him, and I kept myself from sin.

²⁴ Because of this the Lord has given me the reward of my righteousness, because my hands are clean in his eyes.

³ O Lord my God, if I have done this; if my hands have done any wrong;

⁴ If I have given back evil to him who did evil to me, or have taken anything from him who was against me without cause;

⁵ Let my hater go after my soul and take it; let my life be crushed to the earth, and my honour into the dust. (Selah.)

²⁸ And may the sin of your servant have forgiveness: for the Lord will certainly make your family strong, because my lord is fighting in the Lord's war; and no evil will be seen in you all your days.

¹¹ Look! you have seen today how the Lord gave you up into my hands even now in the hollow of the rocks: and some would have had me put you to death, but I had pity on you: for I said, Never will my hand be lifted up against my lord, who has been marked with the holy oil.

¹² And see, my father, see the skirt of your robe in my hand: for the fact that I took off the skirt of your robe and did not put you to death is witness that I have no evil purpose, and I have done you no wrong, though you are waiting for my life to take it.

¹³ May the Lord be judge between me and you, and may the Lord give me my rights against you, but my hand will never be lifted up against you.

¹⁴ There is an old saying, From the evil-doer comes evil: but my hand will never be lifted up against you.

¹⁵ After whom has the king of Israel come out? for whom are you searching? for a dead dog, an insect.