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110 The wicked have laid a snare for me,
    but I do not stray from your precepts.(A)

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Keep me from the trap that they have laid for me
    and from the snares of evildoers.(A)

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The arrogant have hidden a trap for me,
    and with cords they have spread a net,[a]
    along the road they have set snares for me. Selah(A)

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Footnotes

  1. 140.5 Or they have spread cords as a net

95 The wicked lie in wait to destroy me,
    but I consider your decrees.

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85 The arrogant have dug pitfalls for me;
    they flout your law.(A)

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10 With my whole heart I seek you;
    do not let me stray from your commandments.(A)

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22 May a cry be heard from their houses
    when you bring the marauder suddenly upon them!
For they have dug a pit to catch me
    and laid snares for my feet.(A)

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Blessed be the Lord,
    who has not given us
    as prey to their teeth.(A)
We have escaped like a bird
    from the snare of the hunters;
the snare is broken,
    and we have escaped.(B)

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They sit in ambush in the villages;
    in hiding places they murder the innocent.

Their eyes stealthily watch for the helpless;(A)
    they lurk in secret like a lion in its den;
they lurk that they may seize the poor;
    they seize the poor and drag them off in their net.(B)

10 They stoop, they crouch,
    and the helpless fall by their might.
11 They think in their heart, “God has forgotten;
    he has hidden his face; he will never see it.”(C)

12 Rise up, O Lord; O God, lift up your hand;
    do not forget the oppressed.(D)
13 Why do the wicked renounce God
    and say in their hearts, “You will not call us to account”?

14 But you do see! Indeed, you note trouble and grief,
    that you may take it into your hands;
the helpless commit themselves to you;
    you have been the helper of the orphan.(E)

15 Break the arm of the wicked and evildoers;
    seek out their wickedness until you find none.(F)
16 The Lord is king forever and ever;
    the nations shall perish from his land.(G)

17 O Lord, you will hear the desire of the meek;
    you will strengthen their heart; you will incline your ear(H)
18 to do justice for the orphan and the oppressed,
    so that those from earth may strike terror no more.[a](I)

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Footnotes

  1. 10.18 Meaning of Heb uncertain

19 When the scribes and chief priests realized that he had told this parable against them, they wanted to lay hands on him at that very hour, but they feared the people.(A)

The Question about Paying Tribute

20 So they watched him and sent spies who pretended to be honest, in order to trap him by what he said and then to hand him over to the jurisdiction and authority of the governor. 21 So they asked him, “Teacher, we know that you are right in what you say and teach, and you show deference to no one but teach the way of God in accordance with truth.(B) 22 Is it lawful for us to pay tribute to Caesar or not?” 23 But he perceived their craftiness and said to them, 24 “Show me a denarius. Whose head and whose title does it bear?” They said, “Caesar’s.” 25 He said to them, “Then give to Caesar the things that are Caesar’s and to God the things that are God’s.”(C) 26 And they were not able in the presence of the people to trap him by what he said, and being amazed by his answer they became silent.

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Daniel in the Lions’ Den

10 Although Daniel knew that the document had been signed, he continued to go to his house, which had windows in its upper room open toward Jerusalem, and to get down on his knees three times a day to pray to his God and praise him, just as he had done previously.(A)

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87 They have almost made an end of me on earth,
    but I have not forsaken your precepts.

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51 The arrogant utterly deride me,
    but I do not turn away from your law.(A)

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21 You rebuke the insolent, accursed ones,
    who wander from your commandments;(A)

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11 If they say, “Come with us, let us lie in wait for blood;
    let us wantonly ambush the innocent;(A)
12 like Sheol let us swallow them alive
    and whole, like those who go down to the Pit.(B)

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