For behold, the wicked bend their bows. They set their arrow on the string to shoot from the shadows at the upright in heart.
The wicked have drawn the sword and bent the bow to bring down the poor and needy, to slay those whose ways are upright.
For You will put them to flight when Your bow is trained upon them.
“They bend their tongues like bows; lies prevail over truth in the land. For they proceed from evil to evil, and they do
who sharpen their tongues like swords and aim their bitter words like arrows,
Light shines on the righteous, gladness on the upright in heart.
Although my spirit grows faint within me, You know my way. Along the path I travel they have hidden a snare for me.
and they conspired to arrest Jesus covertly and kill Him.
Let the righteous rejoice in the LORD and take refuge in Him; let all the upright in heart exult.
Do good, O LORD, to those who are good, and to the upright in heart.
My shield is with God, who saves the upright in heart.
Surely judgment will again be righteous, and all the upright in heart will follow it.
He lies in wait near the villages; in ambush he slays the innocent; his eyes watch in stealth for the helpless.
Be glad in the LORD and rejoice, O righteous ones; shout for joy, all you upright in heart.
If one does not repent, God will sharpen His sword; He has bent and strung His bow.
“I will give her to David,” Saul thought, “so that she may be a snare to him, and the hand of the Philistines may be aga
When David learned that Saul was plotting evil against him, he said to Abiathar the priest, “Bring the ephod.”
In pride the wicked pursue the needy; let them be caught in the schemes they devise.
When daylight came, the Jews formed a conspiracy and bound themselves with an oath not to eat or drink until they had ki