because of the noise of the enemy, because of the oppression of the wicked. For they drop trouble upon me, and in anger they bear a grudge against me.
And Shimei said as he cursed, “Get out, get out, you man of blood, you worthless man! The Lord has avenged on you all the blood of the house of Saul, in whose place you have reigned, and the Lord has given the kingdom into the hand of your son Absalom. See, your evil is on you, for you are a man of blood.”
Malicious witnesses rise up; they ask me of things that I do not know.
Give me not up to the will of my adversaries; for false witnesses have risen against me, and they breathe out violence.
Now the chief priests and the whole council were seeking false testimony against Jesus that they might put him to death,
To crush underfoot all the prisoners of the earth, to deny a man justice in the presence of the Most High, to subvert a man in his lawsuit, the Lord does not approve.
They scoff and speak with malice; loftily they threaten oppression.
and say, “God has forsaken him; pursue and seize him, for there is none to deliver him.”
For strangers have risen against me; ruthless men seek my life; they do not set God before themselves. Selah
from the wicked who do me violence, my deadly enemies who surround me.
“Because the poor are plundered, because the needy groan, I will now arise,” says the Lord; “I will place him in the safety for which he longs.”
and said to the king, “Let not my lord hold me guilty or remember how your servant did wrong on the day my lord the king left Jerusalem. Do not let the king take it to heart.
Absalom would say to him, “See, your claims are good and right, but there is no man designated by the king to hear you.”
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