Study Desk

To the chief musician. Concerning the silent dove, those far off. Of David, a secret treasure (when the Philistines seized him in Gath). Favor me, O God, for man snuffs me up; all the day fighting oppresses me.

My watchers panted for me all the day; for many are proudly fighting against me.

The day I am afraid I will trust in You.

In God I will praise His Word; in God I have trusted; I will not fear; what will flesh do to me?

All the day they pervert my words; all their thoughts are against me for evil.

They stir up strife; they hide; they observe my footprints as they wait for my soul.

Is escape for them by iniquity? In anger cast down the peoples, O God.

You have counted my wandering; O put my tear in Your bottle; are they not in Your Book?

Then my enemies will turn back in the day I call; this I know, for God is for me.

In God I will praise the Word; in Jehovah I will praise the Word.

In God I have trusted; I will not fear; what will man do to me?

On me, O God, are Your vows; I will render to You thank offerings.

For You have delivered my soul from death. Do You not keep my feet from falling, so that I may walk before God in the light of the living?

And David rose up and fled from the face of Saul on that day, and he came to Achish the king of Gath.

And the servants of Achish said to him, Is this not David the king of the land? Is it not of this one they sang in dances, saying, Saul killed his thousands, and David his myriads?

And David put these words in his heart, and was very much afraid of the face of Achish the king of Gath.