⁹⁵ The wicked have waited for me, to destroy me. I will consider your statutes.

²⁰ Now therefore, O king, come down, according to all the desire of your soul to come down; and our part shall be to deliver him up into the king's hand.

²¹ Saul said, Blessed be you of Yahweh; for you have had compassion on me.

²² Please go make yet more sure, and know and see his place where his haunt is, [and] who has seen him there; for it is told me that he deals very subtly.

²³ See therefore, and take knowledge of all the lurking-places where he hides himself, and come you again to me of a certainty, and I will go with you: and it shall happen, if he be in the land, that I will search him out among all the thousands of Judah.

²¹ Therefore don't yield to them, for more than forty men lie in wait for him, who have bound themselves under a curse neither to eat nor to drink until they have killed him. Now they are ready, looking for the promise from you."

¹¹ When Peter had come to himself, he said, "Now I truly know that the Lord has sent out his angel and delivered me out of the hand of Herod, and from everything the Jewish people were expecting."

³ Then the chief priests, the scribes, and the elders of the people were gathered together in the court of the high priest, who was called Caiaphas.

⁴ They took counsel together that they might take Jesus by deceit, and kill him.

⁵ But they said, "Not during the feast, lest a riot occur among the people."

¹⁶⁷ My soul has observed your testimonies. I love them exceedingly.

¹²⁹ Your testimonies are wonderful, Therefore my soul keeps them.

¹²⁵ I am your servant. Give me understanding, That I may know your testimonies.

¹¹¹ I have taken your testimonies as a heritage forever, For they are the joy of my heart.

⁸⁵ The proud have dug pits for me, Contrary to your law.

⁸⁶ All of your commandments are faithful. They persecute me wrongfully. Help me!

⁸⁷ They had almost wiped me from the earth, But I didn't forsake your precepts.

⁶⁹ The proud have smeared a lie upon me. With my whole heart, I will keep your precepts.

⁶¹ The ropes of the wicked bind me, But I won't forget your law.

³¹ I cling to your statutes, Yahweh. Don't let me be disappointed.

²⁴ Indeed your statutes are my delight, And my counselors.

¹² They also who seek after my life lay snares. Those who seek my hurt speak mischievous things, And meditate deceits all day long.

³² The wicked watches the righteous, And seeks to kill him.

² When evil-doers came at me to eat up my flesh, Even my adversaries and my foes, they stumbled and fell.

⁸ He lies in wait near the villages. From ambushes, he murders the innocent. His eyes are secretly set against the helpless.

⁹ He lurks in secret as a lion in his ambush. He lies in wait to catch the helpless. He catches the helpless, when he draws him in his net.

¹⁰ The helpless are crushed, they collapse, They fall under his strength.

¹ Moreover Ahithophel said to Absalom, Let me now choose out twelve thousand men, and I will arise and pursue after David this night:

² and I will come on him while he is weary and weak-handed, and will make him afraid; and all the people who are with him shall flee; and I will strike the king only;

³ and I will bring back all the people to you: the man whom you seek is as if all returned: [so] all the people shall be in peace.

⁴ The saying pleased Absalom well, and all the elders of Israel.

³ asking a favor against him, that he would summon him to Jerusalem; plotting to kill him on the way.