¹² and when the Egyptians see you, they will say, ‘This is his wife’; then they will kill me, but they will let you live.^(A)

⁷ When the men of the place asked him about his wife, he said, “She is my sister,” for he was afraid to say “my wife,” thinking, “or else the men of the place might kill me for the sake of Rebekah, because she is attractive in appearance.”^(A)

Psalm 36

Human Wickedness and Divine Goodness

To the leader. Of David, the servant of the Lord.