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

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.

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

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 come together to spy on me— watching my every step, eager to kill me.

They lie awake at night, hatching sinful plots. Their actions are never good. They make no attempt to turn from evil.

Look, my father, at what I have in my hand. It is a piece of the hem of your robe! I cut it off, but I didn’t kill you. This proves that I am not trying to harm you and that I have not sinned against you, even though you have been hunting for me to kill me.“ May the Lord judge between us. Perhaps the Lord will punish you for what you are trying to do to me, but I will never harm you.

Although they plot against you, their evil schemes will never succeed.

They encourage each other to do evil and plan how to set their traps in secret.“ Who will ever notice?” they ask.As they plot their crimes, they say,“ We have devised the perfect plan!” Yes, the human heart and mind are cunning.

Their hearts are like an oven blazing with intrigue. Their plot smolders through the night, and in the morning it breaks out like a raging fire.

Meanwhile, my enemies lay traps to kill me. Those who wish me harm make plans to ruin me. All day long they plan their treachery.

Now some men from Ziph came to Saul at Gibeah to tell him,“ David is hiding on the hill of Hakilah, which overlooks Jeshimon.”So Saul took 3,000 of Israel’s elite troops and went to hunt him down in the wilderness of Ziph.Saul camped along the road beside the hill of Hakilah, near Jeshimon, where David was hiding. When David learned that Saul had come after him into the wilderness,he sent out spies to verify the report of Saul’s arrival.David slipped over to Saul’s camp one night to look around. Saul and Abner son of Ner, the commander of his army, were sleeping inside a ring formed by the slumbering warriors.“ Who will volunteer to go in there with me?” David asked Ahimelech the Hittite and Abishai son of Zeruiah, Joab’s brother.“ I’ll go with you,” Abishai replied.So David and Abishai went right into Saul’s camp and found him asleep, with his spear stuck in the ground beside his head. Abner and the soldiers were lying asleep around him.“ God has surely handed your enemy over to you this time!” Abishai whispered to David.“ Let me pin him to the ground with one thrust of the spear; I won’t need to strike twice!”“ No!” David said.“ Don’t kill him. For who can remain innocent after attacking the Lord’s anointed one?Surely the Lord will strike Saul down someday, or he will die of old age or in battle.The Lord forbid that I should kill the one he has anointed! But take his spear and that jug of water beside his head, and then let’s get out of here!”So David took the spear and jug of water that were near Saul’s head. Then he and Abishai got away without anyone seeing them or even waking up, because the Lord had put Saul’s men into a deep sleep.David climbed the hill opposite the camp until he was at a safe distance.Then he shouted down to the soldiers and to Abner son of Ner,“ Wake up, Abner!”“ Who is it?” Abner demanded.“ Well, Abner, you’re a great man, aren’t you?” David taunted.“ Where in all Israel is there anyone as mighty? So why haven’t you guarded your master the king when someone came to kill him?This isn’t good at all! I swear by the Lord that you and your men deserve to die, because you failed to protect your master, the Lord’s anointed! Look around! Where are the king’s spear and the jug of water that were beside his head?”Saul recognized David’s voice and called out,“ Is that you, my son David?” And David replied,“ Yes, my lord the king.Why are you chasing me? What have I done? What is my crime?But now let my lord the king listen to his servant. If the Lord has stirred you up against me, then let him accept my offering. But if this is simply a human scheme, then may those involved be cursed by the Lord. For they have driven me from my home, so I can no longer live among the Lord’s people, and they have said,‘ Go, worship pagan gods.’Must I die on foreign soil, far from the presence of the Lord? Why has the king of Israel come out to search for a single flea? Why does he hunt me down like a partridge on the mountains?”Then Saul confessed,“ I have sinned. Come back home, my son, and I will no longer try to harm you, for you valued my life today. I have been a fool and very, very wrong.”“ Here is your spear, O king,” David replied.“ Let one of your young men come over and get it.The Lord gives his own reward for doing good and for being loyal, and I refused to kill you even when the Lord placed you in my power, for you are the Lord’s anointed one.Now may the Lord value my life, even as I have valued yours today. May he rescue me from all my troubles.”And Saul said to David,“ Blessings on you, my son David. You will do many heroic deeds, and you will surely succeed.” Then David went away, and Saul returned home.

Why are the nations so angry? Why do they waste their time with futile plans?The kings of the earth prepare for battle; the rulers plot together against the Lord and against his anointed one.

Deceit fills hearts that are plotting evil; joy fills hearts that are planning peace!

I search for peace; but when I speak of peace, they want war!

So many enemies against one man— all of them trying to kill me. To them I’m just a broken down wall or a tottering fence.

Who is this wicked counselor of yours who plots evil against the Lord?

But now the men of Ziph went to Saul in Gibeah and betrayed David to him.“ We know where David is hiding,” they said.“ He is in the strongholds of Horesh on the hill of Hakilah, which is in the southern part of Jeshimon.Come down whenever you’re ready, O king, and we will catch him and hand him over to you!”“ The Lord bless you,” Saul said.“ At last someone is concerned about me!Go and check again to be sure of where he is staying and who has seen him there, for I know that he is very crafty.Discover his hiding places, and come back when you are sure. Then I’ll go with you. And if he is in the area at all, I’ll track him down, even if I have to search every hiding place in Judah!”So the men of Ziph returned home ahead of Saul. Meanwhile, David and his men had moved into the wilderness of Maon in the Arabah Valley south of Jeshimon.

What sorrow awaits you who lie awake at night, thinking up evil plans. You rise at dawn and hurry to carry them out, simply because you have the power to do so.When you want a piece of land, you find a way to seize it. When you want someone’s house, you take it by fraud and violence. You cheat a man of his property, stealing his family’s inheritance.But this is what the Lord says:“ I will reward your evil with evil; you won’t be able to pull your neck out of the noose. You will no longer walk around proudly, for it will be a terrible time.”