For the oppression of the poor, for the sighing of the needy, now will I arise, says the LORD; I will set him in safety from him that sneers at him.

For strangers are risen up against me, and oppressors seek after my soul: they have not set God before them. Selah.

They are corrupt, and speak wickedly concerning oppression: they speak loftily.

To crush under his feet all the prisoners of the earth,

To subvert a man in his cause, the Lord approves not.

Deliver me not over unto the will of my enemies: for false witnesses are risen up against me, and such as breathe out cruelty.

False witnesses did rise up; they laid to my charge things that I knew not.

And Absalom said unto him, See, your matters are good and right; but there is no man appointed of the king to hear you.

And thus said Shimei when he cursed, Come out, come out, you bloody man, and you man of Belial:

The LORD has returned upon you all the blood of the house of Saul, in whose place you have reigned; and the LORD has delivered the kingdom into the hand of Absalom your son: and, behold, you are taken in your mischief, because you are a bloody man.

And said unto the king, Let not my lord impute iniquity unto me, neither do you remember that which your servant did perversely the day that my lord the king went out of Jerusalem, that the king should take it to his heart.

Now the chief priests, and elders, and all the council, sought false witness against Jesus, to put him to death;