⁹⁵ Thy wicked waited for me to destroy me, Thy testimonies I understand.

²⁰ And, now, by all the desire of thy soul, O king, to come down, come down, and ours `is' to shut him up into the hand of the king.'

²¹ And Saul saith, `Blessed `are' ye of Jehovah, for ye have pity on me;

²² go, I pray you, prepare yet, and know and see his place where his foot is; who hath seen him there? for `one' hath said unto me, He is very subtile.

²³ And see and know of all the hiding-places where he hideth himself, and ye have turned back unto me prepared, and I have gone with you, and it hath been, if he is in the land, that I have searched him out through all the thousands of Judah.'

²¹ thou, therefore, mayest thou not yield to them, for there lie in wait for him of them more than forty men, who did anathematize themselves -- not to eat nor to drink till they kill him, and now they are ready, waiting for the promise from thee.'

¹¹ And Peter having come to himself, said, `Now I have known of a truth that the Lord did sent forth His messenger, and did deliver me out of the hand of Herod, and all the expectation of the people of the Jews;'

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

⁴ and they consulted together that they might take Jesus by guile, and kill `him',

⁵ and they said, `Not in the feast, that there may not be a tumult among the people.'

¹⁶⁷ Kept hath my soul Thy testimonies, And I do love them exceedingly.

¹²⁹ `Pe.' Wonderful `are' Thy testimonies, Therefore hath my soul kept them.

¹²⁵ Thy servant `am' I -- cause me to understand, And I know Thy testimonies.

¹¹¹ I have inherited Thy testimonies to the age, For the joy of my heart `are' they.

⁸⁵ The proud have digged for me pits, That `are' not according to Thy law.

⁸⁶ All Thy commands `are' faithfulness, `With' falsehood they have pursued me, Help Thou me.

⁸⁷ Almost consumed me on earth have they, And I -- I have not forsaken Thy precepts.

⁶⁹ Forged against me falsehood have the proud, I with the whole heart keep Thy precepts.

⁶¹ Cords of the wicked have surrounded me, Thy law I have not forgotten.

³¹ I have adhered to Thy testimonies, O Jehovah, put me not to shame.

²⁴ Thy testimonies also `are' my delight, The men of my counsel!

¹² And those seeking my soul lay a snare, And those seeking my evil Have spoken mischievous things, And they do deceits meditate all the day.

³² The wicked is watching for the righteous, And is seeking to put him to death.

² When evil doers come near to me to eat my flesh, My adversaries and mine enemies to me, They have stumbled and fallen.

⁸ He doth sit in an ambush of the villages, In secret places he doth slay the innocent. His eyes for the afflicted watch secretly,

⁹ He lieth in wait in a secret place, as a lion in a covert. He lieth in wait to catch the poor, He catcheth the poor, drawing him into his net.

¹⁰ He is bruised -- he boweth down, Fallen by his mighty ones hath the afflicted.

¹ And Ahithophel said unto Absalom, `Let me choose, I pray thee, twelve thousand men, and I arise and pursue after David to-night,

² and come upon him, and he weary and feeble-handed, and I have caused him to tremble, and all the people have fled who `are' with him, and I have smitten the king by himself,

³ and I bring back all the people unto thee -- as the turning back of the whole `is' the man whom thou art seeking -- all the people are peace.

⁴ And the thing is right in the eyes of Absalom, and in the eyes of all the elders of Israel.

³ asking favour against him, that he may send for him to Jerusalem, making an ambush to put him to death in the way.