Wisdom & Truth Verses
Every verse of God's eternal Word carries wisdom and truth. A home for all the rich teachings not captured elsewhere.
Mine enemies chased me sore, like a bird, without cause.
They have cut off my life in the dungeon, and cast a stone upon me.
I called upon thy name, O LORD, out of the low dungeon.
Thou hast heard my voice: hide not thine ear at my breathing, at my cry.
Thou hast seen all their vengeance {and} all their imaginations against me.
Thou hast heard their reproach, O LORD, {and} all their imaginations against me;
The lips of those that rose up against me, and their device against me all the day.
Render unto them a recompence, O LORD, according to the work of their hands.
Give them sorrow of heart, thy curse unto them. {sorrow...: or, obstinacy of heart}
Persecute and destroy them in anger from under the heavens of the LORD.
They that did feed delicately are desolate in the streets: they that were brought up in scarlet embrace dunghills.
Her Nazarites were purer than snow, they were whiter than milk, they were more ruddy in body than rubies, their polishing {was} of sapphire: