סֵ֫תֶר

If your very own brother, or your son or daughter, or the wife you embrace, or your closest friend secretly entices you, saying, “Let us go and worship other gods” (which neither you nor your fathers have known,

‘Cursed is the man who makes a carved idol or molten image—an abomination to the LORD, the work of the hands of a craftsman—and sets it up in secret.’ And let all the people say, ‘Amen!’

‘Cursed is he who strikes down his neighbor in secret.’ And let all the people say, ‘Amen!’

…the afterbirth that comes from between her legs and the children she bears, because she will secretly eat them for lack of anything else in the siege and distress that your enemy will inflict on you within your gates.

…which ate the fat of their sacrifices and drank the wine of their drink offerings? Let them rise up and help you; let them give you shelter!

But upon reaching the idols near Gilgal, he himself turned back and said, “I have a secret message for you, O king.” “Silence,” said the king, and all his attendants left him.

…so he warned David, saying, “My father Saul intends to kill you. Be on your guard in the morning; find a secret place and hide there.

As Abigail came riding her donkey into a mountain ravine, she saw David and his men coming down toward her, and she met them.

You have acted in secret, but I will do this thing in broad daylight before all Israel.’”

Surely He would rebuke you if you secretly showed partiality.

Thick clouds veil Him so He does not see us as He traverses the vault of heaven.’

The eye of the adulterer watches for twilight. Thinking, ‘No eye will see me,’ he covers his face.

…so that my heart was secretly enticed and my hand threw a kiss from my mouth,

He lies under the lotus plants, hidden among the reeds of the marsh.

He made darkness His hiding place, and storm clouds a canopy around Him.

For in the day of trouble He will hide me in His shelter; He will conceal me under the cover of His tent; He will set me high upon a rock.

You hide them in the secret place of Your presence from the schemes of men. You conceal them in Your shelter from accusing tongues.

You are my hiding place. You protect me from trouble; You surround me with songs of deliverance. Selah

Let me dwell in Your tent forever and take refuge in the shelter of Your wings. Selah

You called out in distress, and I rescued you; I answered you from the cloud of thunder; I tested you at the waters of Meribah. Selah

He who dwells in the shelter of the Most High will abide in the shadow of the Almighty.

Whoever slanders his neighbor in secret, I will put to silence; the one with haughty eyes and a proud heart, I will not endure.

You are my hiding place and my shield; I put my hope in Your word.

My frame was not hidden from You when I was made in secret, when I was woven together in the depths of the earth.

“Stolen water is sweet, and bread eaten in secret is tasty!”

A gift in secret soothes anger, and a covert bribe pacifies great wrath.

As the north wind brings forth rain, so a backbiting tongue brings angry looks.

O my dove in the clefts of the rock, in the crevices of the cliff, let me see your face, let me hear your voice; for your voice is sweet, and your countenance is lovely.

Let my fugitives stay with you; be a refuge for Moab from the destroyer.” When the oppressor has gone, destruction has ceased, and the oppressors have vanished from the land,

I will make justice the measuring line and righteousness the level. Hail will sweep away your refuge of lies, and water will flood your hiding place.

Each will be like a shelter from the wind, a refuge from the storm, like streams of water in a dry land, like the shadow of a great rock in an arid land.

I have not spoken in secret, from a place in a land of darkness. I did not say to the descendants of Jacob, ‘Seek Me in a wasteland.’ I, the LORD, speak the truth; I say what is right.

Come near to Me and listen to this: From the beginning I have not spoken in secret; from the time it happened, I was there.” And now the Lord GOD has sent me, accompanied by His Spirit.

Later, King Zedekiah sent for Jeremiah and received him in his palace, where he asked him privately, “Is there a word from the LORD?” “There is,” Jeremiah replied. “You will be delivered into the hand of the king of Babylon.”

But King Zedekiah swore secretly to Jeremiah, “As surely as the LORD lives, who has given us this life, I will not kill you, nor will I deliver you into the hands of these men who are seeking your life.”

Then Johanan son of Kareah spoke privately to Gedaliah at Mizpah. “Let me go and kill Ishmael son of Nethaniah,” he said. “No one will know it. Why should he take your life and scatter all the people of Judah who have gathered to you, so that the remnant of Judah would perish?”