Let them not say in their hearts, “Aha, our heart's desire!” Let them not say, “We have swallowed him up.”
All your enemies rail against you; they hiss, they gnash their teeth, they cry: “We have swallowed her! Ah, this is the day we longed for; now we have it; we see it!”
then they would have swallowed us up alive, when their anger was kindled against us;
When the perishable puts on the imperishable, and the mortal puts on immortality, then shall come to pass the saying that is written: “Death is swallowed up in victory.”
And immediately Jesus, perceiving in his spirit that they thus questioned within themselves, said to them, “Why do you question these things in your hearts?
Now some of the scribes were sitting there, questioning in their hearts,
He trusts in God; let God deliver him now, if he desires him. For he said, ‘I am the Son of God.’”
Grant not, O Lord, the desires of the wicked; do not further their evil plot, or they will be exalted! Selah
They said to themselves, “We will utterly subdue them”; they burned all the meeting places of God in the land.
He will send from heaven and save me; he will put to shame him who tramples on me. Selah God will send out his steadfast love and his faithfulness!
To the choirmaster: according to The Dove on Far-off Terebinths. A Miktam of David, when the Philistines seized him in Gath. Be gracious to me, O God, for man tramples on me; all day long an attacker oppresses me; my enemies trample on me all day long, for many attack me proudly.
Do not drag me off with the wicked, with the workers of evil, who speak peace with their neighbors while evil is in their hearts.
Give me not up to the will of my adversaries; for false witnesses have risen against me, and they breathe out violence.
And when the days of the feast had run their course, Job would send and consecrate them, and he would rise early in the morning and offer burnt offerings according to the number of them all. For Job said, “It may be that my children have sinned, and cursed God in their hearts.” Thus Job did continually.
I am one of those who are peaceable and faithful in Israel. You seek to destroy a city that is a mother in Israel. Why will you swallow up the heritage of the Lord?”
The enemy said, ‘I will pursue, I will overtake, I will divide the spoil, my desire shall have its fill of them. I will draw my sword; my hand shall destroy them.’
Let them turn back because of their shame who say, “Aha, Aha!”
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