Psalm 11:2

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Summary

For, lo, the wicked bend their bow, they make ready their arrow upon the string, that they may privily shoot at the upright in heart.

For, lo

Make

Psalm 21:12

That

Acts 23:12

The upright

Bible References

For, lo

In pride the wicked hotly pursue the afflicted;

Let them be caught in the plots which they have devised.

The wicked have drawn the sword and bent their bow
To cast down the afflicted and the needy,
To slay those who are upright in conduct.

Who have sharpened their tongue like a sword.
They aimed bitter speech as their arrow,

“They bend their tongue like their bow;
Lies and not truth prevail in the land;
For they proceed from evil to evil,
And they do not know Me,” declares the Lord.

Make

For You will make them turn their back;
You will aim with Your bowstrings at their faces.

That

He sits in the lurking places of the villages;
In the hiding places he kills the innocent;
His eyes stealthily watch for the

unfortunate.

They hold fast to themselves an evil purpose;
They talk of laying snares secretly;
They say, “Who can see them?”

When my spirit was overwhelmed within me,
You knew my path.
In the way where I walk
They have hidden a trap for me.

Saul thought, “I will give her to him that she may become a snare to him, and that the hand of the Philistines may be against him.” Therefore Saul said to David, “For a second time you may be my son-in-law today.”

Now David knew that Saul was plotting evil against him; so he said to Abiathar the priest, “Bring the ephod here.”

and they plotted together to seize Jesus by stealth and kill Him.

When it was day, the Jews formed a conspiracy and bound themselves under an oath, saying that they would neither eat nor drink until they had killed Paul.

The upright

My shield is with God,
Who saves the upright in heart.

Be glad in the Lord and rejoice, you righteous ones;
And shout for joy, all you who are upright in heart.

The righteous man will be glad in the Lord and will take refuge in Him;
And all the upright in heart will glory.

For

judgment will again be righteous,

And all the upright in heart will follow it.

Light is sown like seed for the righteous

And gladness for the upright in heart.

Do good, O Lord, to those who are good

And to those who are upright in their hearts.