They hide themselves in the villages, waiting to murder innocent people. They spy on their helpless victims;

they wait in their hiding place like lions. They lie in wait for the poor; they catch them in their traps and drag them away.

Our enemies thought we would not see them or know what was happening until they were already upon us, killing us and putting an end to our work.

Your arrows pierced the commander of his army when it came like a storm to scatter us, gloating like those who secretly oppress the poor.

Look! They are waiting to kill me; cruel people are gathering against me. It is not because of any sin or wrong I have done,

nor because of any fault of mine, O LORD, that they hurry to their places.

When the chief priests and the Temple guards saw him, they shouted, "Crucify him! Crucify him!" Pilate said to them, "You take him, then, and crucify him. I find no reason to condemn him."

He committed no sin, and no one ever heard a lie come from his lips.

When he was insulted, he did not answer back with an insult; when he suffered, he did not threaten, but placed his hopes in God, the righteous Judge.

But God shoots his arrows at them, and suddenly they are wounded.

"I'll pin him to the wall," Saul said to himself, and he threw the spear at him twice; but David dodged each time.

Saul tried to pin David to the wall with his spear, but David dodged, and the spear stuck in the wall. David ran away and escaped.

So David said to all his officials who were with him in Jerusalem, "We must get away at once if we want to escape from Absalom! Hurry! Or else he will soon be here and defeat us and kill everyone in the city!"