A writing of David. Keep me, O Lord; for I have hoped in You.

For the end. Destroy not; by David, for a memorial, when he fled from the presence of Saul, to the cave. Have mercy on me, O God, have mercy on me; for my soul has trusted in You; and in the shadow of Your wings will I hope, until the iniquity has passed away.

For the end. Destroy not; by David, for a memorial. If you do indeed speak righteousness, [then] do you judge rightly, you sons of men?

For the end. Destroy not; by David for a memorial, when Saul sent, and watched his house to kill him. Deliver me from my enemies, O God; and ransom me from those that rise up against me.

For the end, for them that shall yet be changed; for an inscription by David for instruction, when he [had] burned Mesopotamia of Syria, and Syria of Zobah; and Joab [had] returned and struck twelve thousand[in] the Valley of Salt. O God, You have rejected and destroyed us; You have been angry, yet [You] have pitied us.

And the servants of Achish said to him, Is not this David the king of the land? Did not the dancing women begin the song to him, saying, Saul has killed his thousands, and David his ten thousands?

And he changed his appearance before him, and feigned himself a false character in that day; and drummed upon the doors of the city, and used extravagant gestures with his hands, and fell against the doors of the gate, and his spittle ran down upon his beard.

Am I in need of madmen, that you have brought him in to me to play the madman? He shall not come into the house

And the captains of the Philistines were displeased at him, and they said to him, Send the man away, and let him return to his place, which you have appointed for him; and let him not come with us to the war, and let him not be a traitor in the camp. And with what will he be reconciled to his master? Will it not be with the heads of those men?

Pity me, O Lord, for I am afflicted; my eye is troubled with indignation, my soul and my belly.

For the end. Destroy not; by David, for a memorial, when he fled from the presence of Saul, to the cave. Have mercy on me, O God, have mercy on me; for my soul has trusted in You; and in the shadow of Your wings will I hope, until the iniquity has passed away.

He sent from heaven and saved me; He reproached them that trampled on me; God has sent forth His mercy and His truth;

[As for] my God, His mercy shall go before me; my God will show me [vengeance] on my enemies.

But I [will cry] to You, O Lord, in my prayer; O God, it is a propitious time: in the multitude of Your mercy hear me, in the truth of Your salvation.

Let not the floodwater drown me, nor let the deep swallow me up; neither let the well shut its mouth upon me.

To Him who struck Egypt with their firstborn; for His mercy [endures] forever.

and overthrew Pharaoh and his army in the Red Sea; for His mercy endures forever.

To Him who struck down great kings; for His mercy [endures] forever;

Sihon king of the Amorites; for His mercy [endures] forever;

And in Your mercy You will destroy my enemies, and will destroy all those that afflict my soul; for I am Your servant.

You shall make them as a fiery oven at the time of Your presence; the Lord shall trouble them in His anger, and fire shall devour them.

When evildoers drew near against me to eat up my flesh, my persecutors and my enemies, they fainted and fell.

Let them not say in their hearts, Aha, aha, [it is pleasing] to our soul; neither let them say, We have devoured him.

He sent from heaven and saved me; He reproached them that trampled on me; God has sent forth His mercy and His truth;

The earth opened and swallowed up Dathan, and closed upon the congregation of Abiram.

verily they would have swallowed us up alive, when their wrath was kindled against us:

and let us swallow him alive, as Hades would, and remove the memorial of him from the earth:

BETH. In the day of His wrath the Lord has overwhelmed [her] as in the sea, [and] not spared. He has brought down in His fury all the beautiful things of Jacob; He has brought down to the ground the strongholds of the daughter of Judah; He has profaned her kings and her princes.

HE. The Lord has become as an enemy; He has overwhelmed Israel as in the sea, He has overwhelmed her palaces; He has destroyed her strongholds, and has multiplied the afflicted and humbled ones to the daughter of Judah.

AIN. All your enemies have opened their mouth against you; they have hissed and gnashed their teeth, and said, We have swallowed her up; surely this is the day which we looked for; we have found it, we have seen it.

Israel is swallowed up: now he has become among the nations as a worthless vessel.

So when this corruptible should put on incorruption, and this mortal should put on immortality, then will come to pass the word which was written: "Death was swallowed up in victory."