Psalm 64:5

“You say, ‘What does God know? Can He judge through the dense gloom?

Keep me from the jaws of the trap which they have set for me, And from the snares of workers of iniquity.

Yet the king and all his servants who heard all these words were not in dread, nor did they tear their garments.

“All the commissioners of the kingdom, the prefects and the satraps, the high officials and the governors have counseled together that the king should establish a statute and enforce an injunction that anyone who seeks to make a petition to any god or man besides you, O king, for thirty days, shall be cast into the lions’ den.

You pierced with his own sharpened rods The head of his throngs. They stormed in to scatter us; Their exultation was like those Who devour the afflicted in secret.