'Places' in the Bible

The kings of the earth take their stand;And the rulers take counsel togetherAgainst the Lord and His Anointed (the Davidic King, the Messiah, the Christ), saying,

He lurks in ambush in the villages;In hiding places he kills the innocent;He lies in wait for the unfortunate [the unhappy, the poor, the helpless].

He lurks in a hiding place like a lion in his lair;He lies in wait to catch the afflicted;He catches the afflicted when he draws him into his net.

The [boundary] lines [of the land] have fallen for me in pleasant places;Indeed, my heritage is beautiful to me.

He is like a lion eager to tear [his prey],And like a young lion lurking in hiding places.

He makes my feet like hinds’ feet [able to stand firmly and tread safely on paths of testing and trouble];He sets me [securely] upon my high places.

He gathers the waters of the sea together as in a wineskin;He puts the deeps in storehouses.

Let their way be dark and slippery,With the angel of the Lord pursuing and harassing them.

So they who dwell at the ends of the earth stand in awe of Your signs [the evidence of Your presence].You make the dawn and the sunset shout for joy.

God makes a home for the lonely;He leads the prisoners into prosperity,Only the stubborn and rebellious dwell in a parched land.

O God, You are awesome and profoundly majestic from Your sanctuary;The God of Israel gives strength and power to His people.Blessed be God!

There will be an abundance of grain in the soil on the top of the mountains;Its fruit will wave like [the cedars of] Lebanon,And those of the city will flourish like grass of the earth.

Surely You set the wicked-minded and immoral on slippery places;You cast them down to destruction.

They said in their heart, “Let us completely subdue them.”They have burned all the meeting places of God in the land.

Consider the covenant [You made with Abraham],For the dark places of the land are full of the habitations of violence.

For they provoked Him to [righteous] anger with their high places [devoted to idol worship]And moved Him to jealousy with their carved images [by denying Him the love, worship, and obedience that is rightfully and uniquely His].

In whose hand are the depths of the earth;The peaks of the mountains are His also.

I am like a [mournful] vulture of the wilderness;I am like a [desolate] owl of the wasteland.

Bless the Lord, all you works of His, in all places of His dominion;Bless and affectionately praise the Lord, O my soul!

He opened the rock and water flowed out;It ran in the dry places like a river.

He pours contempt on princesAnd makes them wander in a pathless wasteland.

Their [wicked, godless] judges are thrown down the sides of the rocky cliff,And they [who followed them] will hear my words, for they are pleasant (just).

For the enemy has persecuted me,He has crushed my life down to the ground;He has made me dwell in dark places, like those who have been long dead.