All my enemies, and especially my neighbors, treat me with contempt. Those who know me are afraid of me; when they see me in the street, they run away.

Insults have broken my heart, and I am in despair. I had hoped for sympathy, but there was none; for comfort, but I found none.

You have caused my friends to abandon me; you have made me repulsive to them. I am closed in and cannot escape;

You have made even my closest friends abandon me, and darkness is my only companion.

God has made my own family forsake me; I am a stranger to those who knew me;

Those who were guests in my house have forgotten me; my servant women treat me like a stranger and a foreigner.

My wife can't stand the smell of my breath, and my own brothers won't come near me.

My closest friends look at me with disgust; those I loved most have turned against me.

But all this has happened in order to make come true what the prophets wrote in the Scriptures." Then all the disciples left him and ran away.

No one stood by me the first time I defended myself; all deserted me. May God not count it against them!

Will the citizens of Keilah hand me over to Saul? Will Saul really come, as I have heard? LORD, God of Israel, I beg you to answer me!" The LORD answered, "Saul will come."

So David and his men---about six hundred in all---left Keilah at once and kept on the move. When Saul heard that David had escaped from Keilah, he gave up his plan.

David said to himself, "One of these days Saul will kill me. The best thing for me to do is to escape to Philistia. Then Saul will give up looking for me in Israel, and I will be safe."