When the wicked, {even} mine enemies and my foes, came upon me to eat up my flesh, they stumbled and fell. {came...: Heb. approached against me}

He that turneth away his ear from hearing the law, even his prayer {shall be} abomination.

Now therefore send quickly, and tell David, saying, Lodge not this night in the plains of the wilderness, but speedily pass over; lest the king be swallowed up, and all the people that {are} with him.

Therefore they say unto God, Depart from us; for we desire not the knowledge of thy ways.

Be not far from me; for trouble {is} near; for {there is} none to help. {none...: Heb. not a helper}

Seeing thou hatest instruction, and castest my words behind thee.

For dogs have compassed me: the assembly of the wicked have inclosed me: they pierced my hands and my feet.

And Jonathan Saul's son arose, and went to David into the wood, and strengthened his hand in God.

But now in Christ Jesus ye who sometimes were far off are made nigh by the blood of Christ.

How long, ye simple ones, will ye love simplicity? and the scorners delight in their scorning, and fools hate knowledge?

And while he yet spake, lo, Judas, one of the twelve, came, and with him a great multitude with swords and staves, from the chief priests and elders of the people.

The fear of the LORD {is} the beginning of knowledge: {but} fools despise wisdom and instruction. {the beginning: or, the principal part}

Hearken unto me, ye stouthearted, that {are} far from righteousness:

Because ye have burned incense, and because ye have sinned against the LORD, and have not obeyed the voice of the LORD, nor walked in his law, nor in his statutes, nor in his testimonies; therefore this evil is happened unto you, as at this day.