For in the time of trouble he shall hide me in his tabernacle; yea in the secret place of his dwelling shall he hide me, and set me up upon a rock of stone.

Let a sudden destruction come upon him unawares, and his net that he hath laid privily catch himself, that he may fall into his own mischief.

I was stone silent; I held back the urge to speak. My frustration grew;

When together we sweeten counsel, Into the house of God we walk in company.

How long will you threaten a man?
Will all of you attack
as if he were a leaning wall
or a tottering stone fence?

And God doth shoot them with an arrow, Sudden have been their wounds,

How they are destroyed in a moment!
They are utterly swept away by sudden terrors!

He brought streams out of the stone
and made water flow down like rivers.

Therefore He consumed their days like a breath [in emptiness and futility]
And their years in sudden terror.

Your burning anger has passed over me; your sudden fears have destroyed me.

Nor of the pestilence that stalks in darkness,
Nor of the destruction (sudden death) that lays waste at noon.

They shall bear thee up in their hands, lest thou dash thy foot against a stone.

He opened the rock of stone, and the waters flowed out, so that rivers ran in the dry places.

Set thou a wicked man over him: and let Satan stand at his right hand.

who turned the rock into a pool of water, flinty stone into a spring of water.

The stone which the builders refused is become the head stone of the corner.

For I love thy commandments above gold and precious stone.