Study Desk

Show me favour, O God, For weak man hath panted for me, All the day, a fighter oppresseth me:

Mine adversaries have panted all the day, For, many, are fighting with me, loftily.

What day I am afraid, I, unto thee will direct my confidence.

In God, I wilt praise his cause, - In God, have I trusted, I will not fear, What can flesh do unto me?

All the day, they wrest, my words, Against me, all their devices are for mischief;

They stir up strife - they lie hid, They, mark my steps, - Seeing they have waited for my life.

Because of iniquity, recompense thou them, - In anger, bring thou down, the peoples, O God.

My wandering, hast, thou, recorded, - Put thou my tears in thy bottle, Are they not in thy record?

Then, shall my foes turn back, in the day I cry, This, I know, for God is mine!

In God, will I praise with good cause: In Yahweh, will I praise with good cause;

In God, have I trusted, I will not fear, What can a son of earth do unto me!

Upon me, O God, are thy vows, I will pay back praises unto thee.

For thou hast rescued my soul from death, Wilt thou not rescue my feet from stumbling? That I may walk to and fro, before God, In the light of life.

Then arose David, and fled, that day, from the face of Saul, - and came in unto Achish, king of Gath.

And the servants of Achish said unto him, Is not, this, David, king of the land? Was it not, of this man, that they kept responding in the dances, saying, Saul, hath smitten his, thousands, but, David, his, tens of thousands?

And David laid up these words in his heart, - and feared greatly, because of Achish king of Gath.