²⁰ In the shelter of your presence you will hide them from the plotting of man. You will keep them secretly in a dwelling away from the strife of tongues.

⁵ For in the day of trouble he will keep me secretly in his pavilion. In the covert of his tent he will hide me. He will lift me up on a rock.

⁷ You are my hiding place. You will preserve me from trouble. You will surround me with songs of deliverance. Selah.

²¹ You shall be hidden from the scourge of the tongue, Neither shall you be afraid of destruction when it comes.

¹⁴ God, the proud have risen up against me. A company of violent men have sought after my soul, And they don't hold regard for you before them.

¹ He who dwells in the secret place of the Most High Will rest in the shadow of the Almighty.

² I will say of Yahweh, "He is my refuge and my fortress; My God, in whom I trust."

³ For he will deliver you from the snare of the fowler, And from the deadly pestilence.

⁴ He will cover you with his feathers. Under his wings you will take refuge. His faithfulness is your shield and rampart.

⁵ The proud have hidden a snare for me, They have spread the cords of a net by the path. They have set traps for me. Selah.

⁴ he is conceited, knowing nothing, but obsessed with arguments, disputes, and word battles, from which come envy, strife, reviling, evil suspicions,

¹⁴ But if you have bitter jealousy and selfish ambition in your heart, don't boast and don't lie against the truth.

¹⁵ This wisdom is not that which comes down from above, but is earthly, sensual, and demonic.

¹⁶ For where jealousy and selfish ambition are, there is confusion and every evil deed.

⁶ But he gives more grace. Therefore it says, "God resists the proud, but gives grace to the humble."

² Hide me from the conspiracy of the wicked, From the noisy crowd of the ones doing evil;

³ Who sharpen their tongue like a sword, And aim their arrows, deadly words,

⁴ To shoot innocent men from ambushes. They shoot at him suddenly and fearlessly.

⁴ Blessed is the man who makes Yahweh his trust, And doesn't respect the proud, nor such as turn aside to lies.

¹¹ Don't let the foot of pride come against me. Don't let the hand of the wicked drive me away.

² In arrogance, the wicked hunt down the weak; They are caught in the schemes that they devise.

¹¹ Now I know that Yahweh is greater than all gods because of the thing in which they dealt arrogantly against them."

⁵ Then the proud waters would have gone over our soul.

³ They have sharpened their tongues like a serpent. Viper's poison is under their lips. Selah.

¹³ Let us walk properly, as in the day; not in reveling and drunkenness, not in sexual promiscuity and lustful acts, and not in strife and jealousy.

⁵ So the tongue is also a little member, and boasts great things. See how a small fire can spread to a large forest!

⁶ And the tongue is a fire. The world of iniquity among our members is the tongue, which defiles the whole body, and sets on fire the course of nature, and is set on fire by Gehenna.{Gehenna is a name that describes a burning Hell with rotting bodies and unclean things in it}

²⁰ idolatry, sorcery, hatred, strife, jealousies, outbursts of anger, rivalries, divisions, heresies,

²⁰ For I am afraid that by any means, when I come, I might find you not the way I want to, and that I might be found by you as you don't desire; that by any means there would be strife, jealousy, outbursts of anger, factions, slander, whisperings, proud thoughts, riots;