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[A Psalme of Dauid, when hee was in the wildernesse of Iudah.] O God, thou art my God, earely will I seeke thee: my soule thirsteth for thee, my flesh longeth for thee, in a drie and thirstie lande, where no water is:

To see thy power and thy glory, so as I haue seen thee in the Sanctuary.

Because thy louing kindnes is better then life: my lips shal praise thee.

Thus will I blesse thee, while I liue: I will lift vp my handes in thy Name.

My soule shall be satisfied as with marrow and fatnesse: and my mouth shall praise thee with ioyfull lips:

When I remember thee vpon my bed, and meditate on thee in the night watches.

Because thou hast bene my helpe; therefore in the shadow of thy wings will I reioyce.

My soule followeth hard after thee: thy right hand vpholdeth me.

But those that seeke my soule to destroy it, shall goe into the lower parts of the earth.

They shall fall by the sword: they shall be a portion for foxes.

But the King shal reioyce in God; euery one that sweareth by him shall glorie: but the mouth of them that speake lies, shall be stopped.

Then Dauid and his men, which were about sixe hundred, arose, and departed out of Keilah, and went whithersoeuer they could goe: and it was told Saul that Dauid was escaped from Keilah, and hee forbare to goe foorth.

And Dauid abode in the wildernesse in strong holds, and remained in a mountaine in the wildernes of Ziph: and Saul sought him euery day, but God deliuered him not into his hand.