Lexicon :: Strong's H5643 - sēṯer

“If your brother, the son of your mother,[fn] or your son or daughter, or the wife you embrace, or your closest friend secretly entices you, saying, ‘Let’s go and worship other gods’ ​— ​which neither you nor your ancestors have known,

“‘The person who makes a carved idol or cast image, which is detestable to the LORD, the work of a craftsman, and sets it up in secret is cursed.’

And all the people will reply, ‘Amen! ’

“‘The one who secretly kills his neighbor is cursed.’

And all the people will say, ‘Amen! ’

“the afterbirth that comes out from between her legs and the children she bears, because she will secretly eat them for lack of anything else during the siege and hardship your enemy imposes on you within your city gates.

“Who ate the fat of their sacrifices

and drank the wine of their drink offerings?

Let them rise up and help you;

let it[fn] be a shelter for you.

At the carved images near Gilgal he returned and said, “King Eglon, I have a secret message for you.” The king said, “Silence! ” and all his attendants left him.

so he told him, “My father, Saul, intends to kill you. Be on your guard in the morning and hide in a secret place and stay there.

As she rode the donkey down a mountain pass hidden from view, she saw David and his men coming toward her and met them.

“You acted in secret, but I will do this before all Israel and in broad daylight.’ ”[fn]

Surely he would rebuke you

if you secretly showed partiality.

“Clouds veil him so that he cannot see,

as he walks on the circle of the sky.”

The adulterer’s eye watches for twilight,

thinking, “No eye will see me,”

and he covers his face.

so that my heart was secretly enticed

and I threw them a kiss,[fn]

He lies under the lotus plants,

hiding in the protection[fn] of marshy reeds.

He made darkness his hiding place,

dark storm clouds his canopy around him.

For he will conceal me in his shelter

in the day of adversity;

he will hide me under the cover of his tent;

he will set me high on a rock.

You hide them in the protection of your presence;

you conceal them in a shelter

from human schemes,

from quarrelsome tongues.

You are my hiding place;

you protect me from trouble.

You surround me with joyful shouts of deliverance.Selah

I will dwell in your tent forever

and take refuge under the shelter of your wings.Selah

“You called out in distress, and I rescued you;

I answered you from the thundercloud.

I tested you at the Waters of Meribah.Selah

The one who lives under the protection of the Most High

dwells in the shadow of the Almighty.

I will destroy anyone

who secretly slanders his neighbor;

I cannot tolerate anyone

with haughty eyes or an arrogant heart.

You are my shelter and my shield;

I put my hope in your word.

My bones were not hidden from you

when I was made in secret,

when I was formed in the depths of the earth.

“Stolen water is sweet,

and bread eaten secretly is tasty! ”

A secret gift soothes anger,

and a covert bribe, fierce rage.

The north wind produces rain,

and a backbiting tongue, angry looks.

My dove, in the clefts of the rock,

in the crevices of the cliff,

let me see your face,[fn]

let me hear your voice;

for your voice is sweet,

and your face is lovely.

Let my refugees stay with you;

be a refuge for Moab[fn] from the aggressor.

When the oppressor has gone,

destruction has ended,

and marauders have vanished from the land,

“And I will make justice the measuring line

and righteousness the mason’s level.”

Hail will sweep away the false refuge,

and water will flood your hiding place.

Each will be like a shelter from the wind,

a refuge from the rain,

like flowing streams in a dry land

and the shade of a massive rock in an arid land.

“I have not spoken in secret,

somewhere in a land of darkness.

I did not say to the descendants of Jacob:

Seek me in a wasteland.

I am the LORD, who speaks righteously,

who declares what is right.

“Approach me and listen to this.

From the beginning I have not spoken in secret;

from the time anything existed, I was there.”

And now the Lord GOD

has sent me and his Spirit.

King Zedekiah later sent for him and received him, and in his house privately asked him, “Is there a word from the LORD? ”

“There is,” Jeremiah responded. He continued, “You will be handed over to the king of Babylon.”

King Zedekiah swore to Jeremiah in private, “As the LORD lives, who has given us this life, I will not kill you or hand you over to these men who intend to take your life.”

Then Johanan son of Kareah suggested to Gedaliah in private at Mizpah, “Let me go kill Ishmael son of Nethaniah. No one will know it. Why should he kill you and allow all of Judah that has gathered around you to scatter and the remnant of Judah to perish? ”