Psalm 64:4
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4 shooting from ambush at the blameless;
they shoot suddenly and without fear.(A)
1 Peter 2:22-23
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22 “He committed no sin,
and no deceit was found in his mouth.”
23 When he was abused, he did not return abuse; when he suffered, he did not threaten, but he entrusted himself to the one who judges justly.(A)
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Psalm 55:19
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19 God, who is enthroned from of old, Selah
will hear and will humble them,
because they do not change
and do not fear God.(A)
John 19:6
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6 When the chief priests and the police saw him, they shouted, “Crucify him! Crucify him!” Pilate said to them, “Take him yourselves and crucify him; I find no case against him.”(A)
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Habakkuk 3:14
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14 You pierced with their[a] own arrows the head of his warriors,[b]
who came like a whirlwind to scatter us,[c]
gloating as if ready to devour the poor who were in hiding.
Psalm 64:7
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7 But God will shoot his arrow at them;
they will be wounded suddenly.
Psalm 59:3-4
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3 Even now they lie in wait for my life;
the mighty stir up strife against me.
For no transgression or sin of mine, O Lord,(A)
4 for no fault of mine, they run and make ready.
Rouse yourself, come to my help and see!(B)
Psalm 11:2
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2 for look, the wicked bend the bow,
they have fitted their arrow to the string,
to shoot in the dark at the upright in heart.(A)
Psalm 10:8-9
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8 They sit in ambush in the villages;
in hiding places they murder the innocent.
Their eyes stealthily watch for the helpless;(A)
9 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)
Nehemiah 4:11
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11 And our enemies said, “They will not know or see anything before we come upon them and kill them and stop the work.”
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2 Samuel 15:14
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14 Then David said to all his officials who were with him at Jerusalem, “Get up! Let us flee, or there will be no escape for us from Absalom. Hurry, or he will soon overtake us, and bring disaster down upon us, and attack the city with the edge of the sword.”(A)
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1 Samuel 19:10
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10 Saul sought to pin David to the wall with the spear, but he eluded Saul, so that he struck the spear into the wall. David fled and escaped that night.(A)
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1 Samuel 18:11
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11 and Saul threw the spear, for he thought, “I will pin David to the wall.” But David eluded him twice.(A)
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