³ For Pharaoh will say of the children of Israel, They are entangled in the land, the wilderness hath shut them in.

²⁸ For to do whatsoever thy hand and thy counsel determined before to be done.

¹⁷ Thus saith the Lord God; Art thou he of whom I have spoken in old time by my servants the prophets of Israel, which prophesied in those days many years that I would bring thee against them?

¹⁰ Thus saith the Lord God; It shall also come to pass, that at the same time shall things come into thy mind, and thou shalt think an evil thought:

¹¹ And thou shalt say, I will go up to the land of unwalled villages; I will go to them that are at rest, that dwell safely, all of them dwelling without walls, and having neither bars nor gates,

¹⁰ For I heard the defaming of many, fear on every side. Report, say they, and we will report it. All my familiars watched for my halting, saying, Peradventure he will be enticed, and we shall prevail against him, and we shall take our revenge on him.

¹¹ But the Lord is with me as a mighty terrible one: therefore my persecutors shall stumble, and they shall not prevail: they shall be greatly ashamed; for they shall not prosper: their everlasting confusion shall never be forgotten.

⁴ For there is not a word in my tongue, but, lo, O Lord, thou knowest it altogether.

² Thou knowest my downsitting and mine uprising, thou understandest my thought afar off.

¹¹ Saying, God hath forsaken him: persecute and take him; for there is none to deliver him.

² Many there be which say of my soul, There is no help for him in God. Selah.

²³ See therefore, and take knowledge of all the lurking places where he hideth himself, and come ye again to me with the certainty, and I will go with you: and it shall come to pass, if he be in the land, that I will search him out throughout all the thousands of Judah.