Lexicon :: Strong's H6466 - p̄āʿal

“You will bring them [into the land of promise] and plant them on the mountain (Mt. Moriah in Jerusalem) of Your inheritance,

The place, O LORD, You have made for Your dwelling [among them],

The sanctuary, O Lord, which Your hands have established.

“For there is no enchantment or omen against Jacob,

Nor is there any divination against Israel.

At the proper time it shall be said to Jacob

And to Israel, what has God done!

Had I not feared the provocation of the enemy,

That their adversaries would misjudge,

That they would say, “Our [own] hand has prevailed,

And the LORD has not done all this.”’

“If I have sinned, what [harm] have I done to You,

O Watcher of mankind?

Why have You set me as a target for You,

So that I am a burden to myself?

“His wisdom is as high as the heights of heaven. What can you do?

It is deeper than Sheol (the nether world, the place of the dead). What can you know?

“They said to God, ‘Depart from us!

What can the Almighty do for us or to us?’

“Does not tragedy fall [justly] on the unjust

And disaster to those who work wickedness?

[Elihu comments,] “Behold, God does all these things [fn]twice, yes, three times, with a man,

Who goes in company with those who do evil

And walks with wicked men?

“There is no darkness nor deep shadow

Where the evildoers may hide themselves.

Teach me what I do not see [in regard to how I have sinned];

If I have done wrong (injustice, unrighteousness),

I will not do it again’?

“If you have sinned, what do you accomplish against Him?

And if your transgressions are multiplied, what have you done to Him?

“I will bring my knowledge from afar,

And will ascribe righteousness to my Maker.

“Who has appointed God His way,

And who can say [to Him], ‘You have done wrong’?

The boastful and the arrogant will not stand in Your sight;

You hate all who do evil.

Depart from me, all you who do evil,

For the LORD has heard the voice of my weeping.

He has also prepared [other] deadly weapons for Himself;

He makes His arrows fiery shafts [aimed at the unrepentant].

He has dug a pit and hollowed it out,

And has fallen into the [very] pit which he made [as a trap].

“If the foundations [of a godly society] are destroyed,

What can the righteous do?”

Have all the workers of wickedness and injustice no knowledge,

Who eat up my people as they eat bread,

And do not call upon the LORD?

He who walks with integrity and strength of character, and works righteousness,

And speaks and holds truth in his heart.

Do not drag me away with the wicked

And with those who do evil,

Who speak peace with their neighbors,

While malice and mischief are in their hearts.

How great is Your goodness,

Which You have stored up for those who [reverently] fear You,

Which You have prepared for those who take refuge in You,

[fn]Before the sons of man!

There those who [are perverse and] do evil have fallen;

They have been thrust down and cannot rise.

To the Chief Musician. A Psalm of the sons of Korah. A skillful song, or a didactic or reflective poem.

We have heard with our ears, O God,

Our fathers have told us

The work You did in their days,

In the days of old.

Have workers of wickedness no knowledge or no understanding?

They eat up My people as though they ate bread

And have not called upon God.

No, in your heart you devise wrongdoing;

On earth you deal out the violence of your hands.

Deliver me from those who practice wrongdoing,

And save me from bloodthirsty men.

Hide me from the secret counsel and conspiracy of the ungodly,

From the scheming of those who do wrong,

Your God has commanded your strength [your power in His service and your resistance to temptation];

Show Yourself strong, O God, who acted on our behalf.

Yet God is my King of old,

Working salvation in the midst of the earth.

That though the wicked sprout up like grass

And all evildoers flourish,

They will be destroyed forever.

For behold, Your enemies, O LORD,

For behold, Your enemies will perish;

All who do evil will be scattered.

They pour out words, speaking arrogant things;

All who do evil boast proudly.

Who will stand up for me against the evildoers?

Who will take a stand for me against those who do wickedness?

Morning after morning I will destroy all the wicked in the land,

That I may cut off from the city of the LORD all those who do evil.

They do no unrighteousness;

They walk in His ways.

But as for those who turn aside to their crooked ways [in unresponsiveness to God],

The LORD will lead them away with those who do evil.

Peace be upon Israel.

Do not incline my heart to [consent to or tolerate] any evil thing,

Or to practice deeds of wickedness

With men who plan and do evil;

And let me not eat of their delicacies (be tempted by their gain).

Keep me from the jaws of the trap which they have set for me,

And from the snares of those who do evil.

The way of the LORD is a stronghold to the upright,

But it is ruin to those who do evil.

The LORD has made everything for its own purpose,

Even the wicked [according to their role] for the day of evil.

When justice is done, it is a joy to the righteous (the upright, the one in right standing with God),

But to the evildoers it is disaster.

This is the way of an adulterous woman:

She eats and wipes her mouth

And says, “I have done no wrong.”

LORD, You will establish peace for us,

Since You have also performed for us all that we have done.

Yet He is also wise and will bring disaster,

And does not retract His words,

But will arise against the house of evildoers

And against the helpers of those who do evil.

“Who has performed and done this,

Calling forth [and guiding the destinies of] the generations [of the nations] from the beginning?

‘I, the LORD—the first, and with the last [existing before history began, the ever-present, unchanging God]—I am He.’”

“Even from eternity I am He,

And there is no one who can rescue from My hand;

I act, and who can revoke or reverse it?”

The ironsmith shapes iron and uses a chisel and works it over the coals. He forms the [idol’s] core with hammers and works it with his strong arm. He also becomes hungry and his strength fails; he drinks no water and grows tired.