⁵ They make themselves strong in an evil purpose; they make holes for secret nets; they say, Who will see it,

⁵ The men of pride have put secret cords for my feet; stretching nets in my way, so that they may take me with their tricks. (Selah.)

¹¹ He says in his heart, God has no memory of me: his face is turned away; he will never see it.

¹⁰ And those who are on the earth will have pleasure and delight over them; and they will send offerings one to another because these two prophets gave great trouble to all on the earth.

³ Then the chief priests and the rulers of the people came together in the house of the high priest, who was named Caiaphas.

⁴ And they made designs together to take Jesus by some trick, and put him to death.

¹⁵ A curse is on you, scribes and Pharisees, false ones! for you go about land and sea to get one disciple and, having him, you make him twice as much a son of hell as yourselves.

¹² And he said to me, Son of man, have you seen what the responsible men of the children of Israel do in the dark, every man in his room of pictured images? for they say, The Lord does not see us; the Lord has gone away from the land.

⁶ They gave help everyone to his neighbour; and everyone said to his brother, Take heart!

¹¹ If they say, Come with us; let us make designs against the good, waiting secretly for the upright, without cause;

¹² Let us overcome them living, like the underworld, and in their strength, as those who go down to death;

¹³ Goods of great price will be ours, our houses will be full of wealth;

¹⁴ Take your chance with us, and we will all have one money-bag:

⁷ Our soul has gone free like a bird out of the net of those who would take her: the net is broken, and we are free.

⁷ And they say, Jah will not see it, the God of Jacob will not give thought to it.

⁷ See, hate is dropping from their lips; curses are on their tongues: they say, Who gives attention to it?

¹³ And you say, What knowledge has God? is he able to give decisions through the deep dark?

¹⁹ Then the Ziphites came up to Gibeah to see Saul, and said, Is not David living secretly among us in the strong places in Horesh, in the hill of Hachilah to the south of the waste land?

²⁰ So now, O king, have your soul's desire and come down, and we, for our part, will give him up into the king's hands.

²¹ And Saul said, The Lord's blessing will be yours, for you have had pity on me.

²² Go now, and take more steps, and see where he is living: for they say that he is expert in deceit.

²³ So take care to get knowledge of all the secret places where he is taking cover, and be certain to come back to me, and I will go with you: and without doubt, if he is anywhere in the land, I will get him, among all the families of Judah.

⁶ Come now, in answer to my prayer, and put a curse on this people, for they are greater than I: and then I may be strong enough to overcome them and send them out of the land: for it is clear that good comes to him who has your blessing, but he on whom you put your curse is cursed.

⁹ Egypt said, I will go after them, I will overtake, I will make division of their goods: my desire will have its way with them; my sword will be uncovered, my hand will send destruction on them.