The proud have digged pits for me, which are not after thy law.

He sitteth in the lurking places of the villages: in the secret places doth he murder the innocent: his eyes are privily set against the poor.

He croucheth, and humbleth himself, that the poor may fall by his strong ones.

Arise, O LORD; O God, lift up thine hand: forget not the humble.

Thou hast seen it; for thou beholdest mischief and spite, to requite it with thy hand: the poor committeth himself unto thee; thou art the helper of the fatherless.

The LORD is King for ever and ever: the heathen are perished out of his land.

To judge the fatherless and the oppressed, that the man of the earth may no more oppress.

Blessed be the LORD, who hath not given us as a prey to their teeth.

Our soul is escaped as a bird out of the snare of the fowlers: the snare is broken, and we are escaped.

The proud have hid a snare for me, and cords; they have spread a net by the wayside; they have set gins for me. Selah.

Keep me from the snares which they have laid for me, and the gins of the workers of iniquity.

If they say, Come with us, let us lay wait for blood, let us lurk privily for the innocent without cause:

Let us swallow them up alive as the grave; and whole, as those that go down into the pit:

Let a cry be heard from their houses, when thou shalt bring a troop suddenly upon them: for they have digged a pit to take me, and hid snares for my feet.

With my whole heart have I sought thee: O let me not wander from thy commandments.

Thou hast rebuked the proud that are cursed, which do err from thy commandments.

The proud have had me greatly in derision: yet have I not declined from thy law.

They had almost consumed me upon earth; but I forsook not thy precepts.

The wicked have waited for me to destroy me: but I will consider thy testimonies.

Now when Daniel knew that the writing was signed, he went into his house; and his windows being open in his chamber toward Jerusalem, he kneeled upon his knees three times a day, and prayed, and gave thanks before his God, as he did aforetime.

And the chief priests and the scribes the same hour sought to lay hands on him; and they feared the people: for they perceived that he had spoken this parable against them.

And they asked him, saying, Master, we know that thou sayest and teachest rightly, neither acceptest thou the person of any, but teachest the way of God truly:

But he perceived their craftiness, and said unto them, Why tempt ye me?

And he said unto them, Render therefore unto Caesar the things which be Caesar's, and unto God the things which be God's.