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…if I have rewarded my ally with evil, if I have plundered my foe without cause,

…who lends his money without interest and refuses a bribe against the innocent. He who does these things will never be shaken.

Without speech or language, without a sound to be heard,

Without speech or language, without a sound to be heard,

Surely none who wait for You will be put to shame; but those who engage in treachery without cause will be disgraced.

Of David. Vindicate me, O LORD! For I have walked with integrity; I have trusted in the LORD without wavering.

For without cause they laid their net for me; without reason they dug a pit for my soul.

For without cause they laid their net for me; without reason they dug a pit for my soul.

But when I stumbled, they assembled in glee; they gathered together against me. Assailants I did not know slandered me without ceasing.

Let not my enemies gloat over me without cause, nor those who hate me without reason wink in malice.

Let not my enemies gloat over me without cause, nor those who hate me without reason wink in malice.

Many are my enemies without cause, and many hate me without reason.

Many are my enemies without cause, and many hate me without reason.

For evils without number surround me; my sins have overtaken me, so that I cannot see. They are more than the hairs of my head, and my heart has failed within me.

A man who has riches without understanding is like the beasts that perish.

A Psalm of David, when he was in the Wilderness of Judah. O God, You are my God. Earnestly I seek You; my soul thirsts for You. My body yearns for You in a dry and weary land without water.

…ambushing the innocent in seclusion, shooting suddenly, without fear.

Those who hate me without cause outnumber the hairs of my head; many are those who would destroy me—my enemies for no reason. Though I did not steal, I must repay.

Fire consumed His young men, and their maidens were left without wedding songs.

I am counted among those descending to the Pit. I am like a man without strength.

He spoke, and the locusts came—young locusts without number.

They surround me with hateful words and attack me without cause.

I hurried without hesitating to keep Your commandments.

All Your commandments are faithful; I am persecuted without cause—help me!

I have seen a limit to all perfection, but Your commandment is without limit.

Rulers persecute me without cause, but my heart fears only Your word.

If they say, “Come along, let us lie in wait for blood, let us ambush the innocent without cause,

Do not accuse a man without cause, when he has done you no harm.

Without a commander, without an overseer or ruler,

Without a commander, without an overseer or ruler,

Can a man walk on hot coals without scorching his feet?

Abundant food is in the fallow ground of the poor, but without justice it is swept away.

Even zeal is no good without knowledge, and he who hurries his footsteps misses the mark.

The fear of the LORD leads to life, that one may rest content, without visitation from harm.

All day long he covets more, but the righteous give without restraint.

Do not testify against your neighbor without cause, and do not deceive with your lips.

Argue your case with your neighbor without betraying another’s confidence,

Like clouds and wind without rain is the man who boasts of gifts never given.

Without wood, a fire goes out; without gossip, a conflict ceases.

Without wood, a fire goes out; without gossip, a conflict ceases.

There is a man all alone, without even a son or brother. And though there is no end to his labor, his eyes are still not content with his wealth: “For whom do I toil and bereave my soul of enjoyment?” This too is futile—a miserable task.

For if one falls down, his companion can lift him up; but pity the one who falls without another to help him up!

There are sixty queens and eighty concubines, and maidens without number,

For you will become like an oak whose leaves are withered, like a garden without water.

Then I asked: “How long, O Lord?” And He replied: “Until the cities lie ruined and without inhabitant, until the houses are left unoccupied and the land is desolate and ravaged,

Like a hunted gazelle, like a sheep without a shepherd, each will return to his own people, each will flee to his native land.

All your rulers have fled together, captured without a bow. All your fugitives were captured together, having fled to a distant place.

This is the burden against Tyre: Wail, O ships of Tarshish, for Tyre is laid waste, without house or harbor. Word has reached them from the land of Cyprus.

When its limbs are dry, they are broken off. Women come and use them for kindling; for this is a people without understanding. Therefore their Maker has no compassion on them, and their Creator shows them no favor.

For all their tables are covered with vomit; there is not a place without filth.

They set out to go down to Egypt without asking My advice, to seek shelter under Pharaoh’s protection and take refuge in Egypt’s shade.

“Go down and sit in the dust, O Virgin Daughter of Babylon. Sit on the ground without a throne, O Daughter of the Chaldeans! For you will no longer be called tender or delicate.

For this is what the LORD says: “You were sold for nothing, and without money you will be redeemed.”

For this is what the Lord GOD says: “At first My people went down to Egypt to live, then Assyria oppressed them without cause.

And now what have I here? declares the LORD. For My people have been taken without cause; those who rule them taunt, declares the LORD, and My name is blasphemed continually all day long.

“O afflicted city, lashed by storms, without solace, surely I will set your stones in antimony and lay your foundations with sapphires.

“Come, all you who are thirsty, come to the waters; and you without money, come, buy, and eat! Come, buy wine and milk without money and without cost!

“Come, all you who are thirsty, come to the waters; and you without money, come, buy, and eat! Come, buy wine and milk without money and without cost!

“Come, all you who are thirsty, come to the waters; and you without money, come, buy, and eat! Come, buy wine and milk without money and without cost!

For just as rain and snow fall from heaven and do not return without watering the earth, making it bud and sprout, and providing seed to sow and food to eat,

Blessed is the man who does this, and the son of man who holds it fast, who keeps the Sabbath without profaning it and keeps his hand from doing any evil.”

And the foreigners who join themselves to the LORD to minister to Him, to love the name of the LORD, and to be His servants—all who keep the Sabbath without profaning it and who hold fast to My covenant—

Like the blind, we feel our way along the wall, groping like those without eyes. We stumble at midday as in the twilight; among the vigorous we are like the dead.

The young lions have roared at him; they have sounded their voices. They have laid waste his land; his cities lie in ruins, without inhabitant.

Does a maiden forget her jewelry or a bride her wedding sash? Yet My people have forgotten Me for days without number.

“For My people are fools; they have not known Me. They are foolish children, without understanding. They are skilled in doing evil, but they know not how to do good.”

Be forewarned, O Jerusalem, or I will turn away from you; I will make you a desolation, a land without inhabitant.”

“And I will make Jerusalem a heap of rubble, a haunt for jackals; and I will make the cities of Judah a desolation, without inhabitant.”

Your wealth and your treasures I will give up as plunder, without charge for all your sins within all your borders.

May that man be like the cities that the LORD overthrew without compassion. May he hear an outcry in the morning and a battle cry at noon,

“Woe to him who builds his palace by unrighteousness, and his upper rooms without justice, who makes his countrymen serve without pay, and fails to pay their wages,

“Woe to him who builds his palace by unrighteousness, and his upper rooms without justice, who makes his countrymen serve without pay, and fails to pay their wages,

And fields will be bought in this land about which you are saying, ‘It is a desolation, without man or beast; it has been delivered into the hands of the Chaldeans.’

This is what the LORD says: In this place you say is a wasteland without man or beast, in the cities of Judah and in the streets of Jerusalem that are deserted—inhabited by neither man nor beast—there will be heard again

This is what the LORD of Hosts says: In this desolate place, without man or beast, and in all its cities, there will once more be pastures for shepherds to rest their flocks.

Behold, I am going to give the command, declares the LORD, and I will bring them back to this city. They will fight against it, capture it, and burn it down. And I will make the cities of Judah a desolation, without inhabitant.”

So now, this is what the LORD God of Hosts, the God of Israel, says: Why are you doing such great harm to yourselves by cutting off from Judah man and woman, child and infant, leaving yourselves without a remnant?

“Moreover,” said the women, “when we burned incense to the Queen of Heaven and poured out drink offerings to her, was it without our husbands’ knowledge that we made sacrificial cakes in her image and poured out drink offerings to her?”

So the LORD could no longer endure the evil deeds and detestable acts you committed, and your land became a desolation, a horror, and an object of cursing, without inhabitant, as it is this day.

Why am I seeing this? They are terrified, they are retreating; their warriors are defeated, they flee in haste without looking back; terror is on every side!” declares the LORD.

Concerning the Ammonites, this is what the LORD says: “Has Israel no sons? Is he without heir? Why then has Milcom taken possession of Gad? Why have his people settled in their cities?

The earth quakes and writhes because the LORD’s intentions against Babylon stand: to make the land of Babylon a desolation, without inhabitant.

Babylon will become a heap of rubble, a haunt for jackals, an object of horror and scorn, without inhabitant.

Without pity the Lord has swallowed up all the dwellings of Jacob. In His wrath He has demolished the fortified cities of the Daughter of Judah. He brought to the ground and defiled her kingdom and its princes.

The LORD has done what He planned; He has accomplished His decree, which He ordained in days of old; He has overthrown you without pity. He has let the enemy gloat over you and exalted the horn of your foes.

Both young and old lie together in the dust of the streets. My young men and maidens have fallen by the sword. You have slain them in the day of Your anger; You have slaughtered them without compassion.

He forced me off my path and tore me to pieces; He left me without help.

You have covered Yourself in anger and pursued us; You have killed without pity.

My eyes overflow unceasingly, without relief,

Without cause my enemies hunted me like a bird.

The punishment of the daughter of my people is greater than that of Sodom, which was overthrown in an instant without a hand turned to help her.

Each creature went straight ahead. Wherever the spirit would go, they would go, without turning as they moved.

As they moved, they went in any of the four directions, without pivoting as they moved.

When they moved, they would go in any of the four directions, without turning as they moved. For wherever the head faced, the cherubim would go in that direction, without turning as they moved.

When they moved, they would go in any of the four directions, without turning as they moved. For wherever the head faced, the cherubim would go in that direction, without turning as they moved.

…because I, the LORD, will speak whatever word I speak, and it will be fulfilled without delay. For in your days, O rebellious house, I will speak a message and bring it to pass, declares the Lord GOD.’”

They will bring you consolation when you see their conduct and actions, and you will know that it was not without cause that I have done all these things within it,’ declares the Lord GOD.”

The people of the land have practiced extortion and committed robbery. They have oppressed the poor and needy and have exploited the foreign resident without justice.

…if he restores a pledge, makes restitution for what he has stolen, and walks in the statutes of life without practicing iniquity—then he will surely live; he will not die.

You will say, ‘I will go up against a land of unwalled villages; I will come against a quiet people who dwell securely, all of them living without walls or bars or gates—