“Happy and blessed are you, O Israel;Who is like you, a people saved by the Lord,The Shield of your help,And the Sword of your majesty!Your enemies will cringe before you,And you will tread on their high places [tramping down their idolatrous altars].”

And he changed his behaviour before them, and feigned himself mad in their hands, and scrabbled on the doors of the gate, and let his spittle fall down upon his beard.

So Amnon lay down and feigned himself sick; and the king came to see him, and Amnon said to the king, I pray thee, let Tamar my sister come, and make a couple of cakes in my sight, that I may eat from her hand.

“Foreigners pretend obedience to me;As soon as they hear [me], they obey me.

If one doth destroy him from his place, Then it hath feigned concerning him, I have not seen thee!

{A Prayer of David.} Hear the right, O LORD, attend unto my cry, give ear unto my prayer, that goeth not out of feigned lips.

As soon as they hear me, they respond and obey me;Foreigners feign obedience to me.

A Psalm of David when he feigned madness before Abimelech, who drove him away and he departed.I will bless the Lord at all times;His praise shall continually be in my mouth.

Say to God, “How awesome are Your works!Because of the greatness of Your power Your enemies will give feigned obedience to You.

Yet in spite of all this her treacherous sister Judah did not return to Me with her whole heart, but rather in [blatant] deception [she merely pretended obedience to King Josiah’s reforms],” declares the Lord.

And they watched him, and sent forth spies, who feigned themselves to be righteous, that they might take hold of his speech, so as to deliver him up to the rule and to the authority of the governor.

But their report seemed to them like idle talk and nonsense, and they would not believe them.

And through covetousness shall they with feigned words make merchandise of you: whose judgment now of a long time lingereth not, and their damnation slumbereth not.