Psalms 64:4
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ambushing the innocent in seclusion, shooting suddenly, without fear.
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God will hear and humiliate them— the One enthroned for the ages— Selah because they do not change and they have no fear of God.
For behold, the wicked bend their bows. They set their arrow on the string to shoot from the shadows at the upright in heart.
As soon as the chief priests and officers saw Him, they shouted, “Crucify Him! Crucify Him!” “You take Him and crucify Him,” Pilate replied, “for I find no basis for a charge against Him.”
But God will shoot them with arrows; suddenly they will be wounded.
and he hurled it, thinking, “I will pin David to the wall.” But David eluded him twice.
And our enemies said, “Before they know or see a thing, we will come into their midst, kill them, and put an end to the work.”
Saul tried to pin him to the wall with his spear. But the spear struck the wall and David eluded him, ran away, and escaped that night.
With his own spear You pierced his head, when his warriors stormed out to scatter us, gloating as though ready to secretly devour the weak.
And David said to all the servants with him in Jerusalem, “Arise and let us flee, or we will not escape from Absalom! We must leave quickly, or he will soon overtake us, heap disaster on us, and put the city to the sword.”