They lay crafty plans against your people; they consult together against your treasured ones.
Hide me from the secret plots of the wicked, from the throng of evildoers,
For he will hide me in his shelter in the day of trouble; he will conceal me under the cover of his tent; he will lift me high upon a rock.
In the cover of your presence you hide them from the plots of men; you store them in your shelter from the strife of tongues.
“Let us go up against Judah and terrify it, and let us conquer it for ourselves, and set up the son of Tabeel as king in the midst of it,” thus says the Lord God: “‘It shall not stand, and it shall not come to pass.
So they watched him and sent spies, who pretended to be sincere, that they might catch him in something he said, so as to deliver him up to the authority and jurisdiction of the governor. So they asked him, “Teacher, we know that you speak and teach rightly, and show no partiality, but truly teach the way of God. Is it lawful for us to give tribute to Caesar, or not?” But he perceived their craftiness, and said to them,
He who dwells in the shelter of the Most High will abide in the shadow of the Almighty.
They stir up strife, they lurk; they watch my steps, as they have waited for my life.
he lurks in ambush like a lion in his thicket; he lurks that he may seize the poor; he seizes the poor when he draws him into his net.
For you have died, and your life is hidden with Christ in God.
Now there was no blacksmith to be found throughout all the land of Israel, for the Philistines said, “Lest the Hebrews make themselves swords or spears.”
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