³ They have made wise designs against your people, talking together against those whom you keep in a secret place.

⁵ For in the time of trouble he will keep me safe in his tent: in the secret place of his tent he will keep me from men's eyes; high on a rock he will put me.

² Keep me safe from the secret purpose of wrongdoers; from the band of the workers of evil;

²⁰ You will keep them safe in your house from the designs of man; in the secret of your tent will you keep them from angry tongues.

²⁰ And they kept watch on him, and sent out secret representatives, who were acting the part of good men, in order that they might get something from his words, on account of which they might give him up to the government and into the power of the ruler.

²¹ And they put a question to him, saying, Master, we are certain that your teaching and your words are right, and that you have no respect for a man's position, but you are teaching the true way of God:

²² Is it right for us to make payment of taxes to Caesar or not?

²³ But he saw through their trick and said to them,

⁶ Let us go up against Judah, troubling her, and forcing our way into her, and let us put up a king in her, even the son of Tabeel:

⁷ This is the word of the Lord God: This design will not come about or be effected.

¹ Happy is he whose resting-place is in the secret of the Lord, and under the shade of the wings of the Most High;

⁶ They come together, they are waiting in secret places, they take note of my steps, they are waiting for my soul.

⁹ He keeps himself in a secret place like a lion in his hole, waiting to put his hands on the poor man, and pulling him into his net.

¹⁹ Now there was no iron-worker in all the land of Israel: for the Philistines said, For fear the Hebrews make themselves swords or spears:

³ For your life on earth is done, and you have a secret life with Christ in God.