who plan evil in their hearts. They stir up wars all day long.

他们心中图谋奸恶，常常聚集要争战。

他们心中图谋奸恶，日日不停挑起战争。

他们心中图谋奸恶，日日不停挑起战争。

他们心怀叵测，整天挑拨离间。

他们心中图谋恶事，整天挑启争端。

他们心里谋算恶事，每天都要挑起争战。

他們心中圖謀奸惡，常常聚集要爭戰。

他們心中圖謀奸惡，日日不停挑起戰爭。

他們心中圖謀奸惡，日日不停挑起戰爭。

他們心懷叵測，整天挑撥離間。

他們心中圖謀惡事，整天挑啟爭端。

他們心中圖謀壞事，終日不斷地鼓起戰爭。

他們心裡謀算惡事，每天都要挑起爭戰。

彼心謀惡、恆搆戰兮、

彼謀不軌、恆集戰鬥兮、

其心圖維惡事、每日群聚以爭戰、

求主拯我。於彼巨猾。求主脫我。於彼暴虐。

who devise evil plans in their hearts and stir up war every day.

They make evil plans in their hearts. They are always starting fights.

who plan evil things in their heart and stir up wars continually.

those who plot evil in their hearts and stir up trouble all day long.

who plan evil in their hearts. They stir up wars all day long.

Who devise evil things in their hearts; They continually stir up wars.

Who plan evil things in their hearts; They continually gather together for war.

Who devise mischiefs in their heart; Continually do they gather themselves together for war.

Which imagine mischiefs in[ their] heart; continually are they gathered together[ for] war.

who plan ways to harm me. All day long they stir up conflict.

those who devise mischief in their hearts. They continually gather themselves together for war.

They stir up strife, they lurk; they watch my steps while they wait to take my life.

Even on his bed he makes malicious plans. He sets himself on a path that is not good and does not reject evil.

See, my father! Look at the corner of your robe in my hand, for I cut it off, but I didn’t kill you. Look and recognize that there is no evil or rebellion in me. I haven’t sinned against you even though you are hunting me down to take my life.“ May the Lord judge between you and me, and may the Lord take vengeance on you for me, but my hand will never be against you.

Though they intend to harm you and devise a wicked plan, they will not prevail.

They encourage each other in an evil plan; they talk about hiding traps and say,“ Who will see them?”They devise crimes and say,“ We have perfected a secret plan.” The inner man and the heart are mysterious.

For they— their hearts like an oven— draw him into their oven. Their anger smolders all night; in the morning it blazes like a flaming fire.

Those who seek my life set traps, and those who want to harm me threaten to destroy me; they plot treachery all day long.

Then the Ziphites came to Saul at Gibeah saying,“ David is hiding on the hill of Hachilah opposite Jeshimon.”So Saul, accompanied by 3,000 of the choice men of Israel, went to the Wilderness of Ziph to search for David there.Saul camped beside the road at the hill of Hachilah opposite Jeshimon. David was living in the wilderness and discovered Saul had come there after him.So David sent out spies and knew for certain that Saul had come.Immediately, David went to the place where Saul had camped. He saw the place where Saul and Abner son of Ner, the general of his army, were lying down. Saul was lying inside the inner circle of the camp with the troops camped around him.Then David asked Ahimelech the Hittite and Joab’s brother Abishai son of Zeruiah,“ Who will go with me into the camp to Saul?”“ I’ll go with you,” answered Abishai.That night, David and Abishai came to the troops, and Saul was lying there asleep in the inner circle of the camp with his spear stuck in the ground by his head. Abner and the troops were lying around him.Then Abishai said to David,“ Today God has handed your enemy over to you. Let me thrust the spear through him into the ground just once. I won’t have to strike him twice!”But David said to Abishai,“ Don’t destroy him, for who can lift a hand against the Lord’s anointed and be blameless?”David added,“ As the Lord lives, the Lord will certainly strike him down: either his day will come and he will die, or he will go into battle and perish.However, because of the Lord, I will never lift my hand against the Lord’s anointed. Instead, take the spear and the water jug by his head, and let’s go.”So David took the spear and the water jug by Saul’s head, and they went their way. No one saw them, no one knew, and no one woke up; they all remained asleep because a deep sleep from the Lord came over them.David crossed to the other side and stood on top of the mountain at a distance; there was a considerable space between them.Then David shouted to the troops and to Abner son of Ner:“ Aren’t you going to answer, Abner?”“ Who are you who calls to the king?” Abner asked.David called to Abner,“ You’re a man, aren’t you? Who in Israel is your equal? So why didn’t you protect your lord the king when one of the people came to destroy him?What you have done is not good. As the Lord lives, all of you deserve to die since you didn’t protect your lord, the Lord’s anointed. Now look around; where are the king’s spear and water jug that were by his head?”Saul recognized David’s voice and asked,“ Is that your voice, my son David?”“ It is my voice, my lord and king,” David said.Then he continued,“ Why is my lord pursuing his servant? What have I done? What evil is in my hand?Now, may my lord the king please hear the words of his servant: If it is the Lord who has incited you against me, then may He accept an offering. But if it is people, may they be cursed in the presence of the Lord, for today they have driven me away from sharing in the inheritance of the Lord saying,‘ Go and worship other gods.’So don’t let my blood fall to the ground far from the Lord’s presence, for the king of Israel has come out to search for a flea, like one who pursues a partridge in the mountains.”Saul responded,“ I have sinned. Come back, my son David, I will never harm you again because today you considered my life precious. I have been a fool! I’ve committed a grave error.”David answered,“ Here is the king’s spear; have one of the young men come over and get it.May the Lord repay every man for his righteousness and his loyalty. I wasn’t willing to lift my hand against the Lord’s anointed, even though the Lord handed you over to me today.Just as I considered your life valuable today, so may the Lord consider my life valuable and rescue me from all trouble.”Saul said to him,“ You are blessed, my son David. You will certainly do great things and will also prevail.” Then David went on his way, and Saul returned home.

Why do the nations rebel and the peoples plot in vain?The kings of the earth take their stand, and the rulers conspire together against the Lord and His Anointed One:

Deceit is in the hearts of those who plot evil, but those who promote peace have joy.

I am for peace; but when I speak, they are for war.

How long will you threaten a man? Will all of you attack as if he were a leaning wall or a tottering stone fence?

One has gone out from you, who plots evil against Yahweh, and is a wicked counselor.

Some Ziphites came up to Saul at Gibeah and said,“ David is hiding among us in the strongholds in Horesh on the hill of Hachilah south of Jeshimon.Now, whenever the king wants to come down, let him come down. Our part will be to hand him over to the king.”“ May you be blessed by the Lord,” replied Saul,“ for you have taken pity on me.Go and check again. Investigate and watch carefully where he goes and who has seen him there; they tell me he is extremely cunning.Look and find out all the places where he hides. Then come back to me with accurate information, and I’ll go with you. If it turns out he really is in the region, I’ll search for him among all the clans of Judah.”So they went to Ziph ahead of Saul. Now David and his men were in the wilderness near Maon in the Arabah south of Jeshimon,

Woe to those who dream up wickedness and prepare evil plans on their beds! At morning light they accomplish it because the power is in their hands.They covet fields and seize them; they also take houses. They deprive a man of his home, a person of his inheritance.Therefore, the Lord says: I am now planning a disaster against this nation; you cannot free your necks from it. Then you will not walk so proudly because it will be an evil time.