Keep me as the apple of Your eye from those that resist Your right hand; You shall screen me by the covering of Your wings,

from the face of the ungodly that have afflicted me; my enemies have compassed about my soul.

Arise, O Lord, prevent them, and cast them down; deliver my soul from the ungodly; [draw] Your sword,

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.

Deliver me from the workers of iniquity, and save me from bloody men.

For the end, A Psalm of David. Rescue me, O Lord, from the evil man; deliver me from the unjust man.

They have sharpened their tongue as [the tongue] of a serpent; the poison of asps is under their lips. Pause.

And Ahithophel said to Absalom, Go in to your father's concubines, whom he left to keep his house; and all Israel shall hear that you have dishonored your father; and the hands of all that are with you shall be strengthened.

And they pitched a tent for Absalom on the roof, and Absalom went in to his father's concubines in the sight of all Israel.

And Ahithophel said to Absalom, Let me now choose out for myself twelve thousand men, and I will arise and follow after David this night.

And I will come upon him when he [is] weary and weak-handed, and I will strike him with terror; and all the people with him shall flee, and I will smite the king alone.

And we will come upon him in one of the places where we shall find him, and we will encamp against him, as the dew falls upon the earth; and we will not leave of him and of his men so much as one.

And Absalom, and all the men of Israel said, The counsel of Hushai the Archite [is] better than the counsel of Ahithophel. For the Lord has purposed to defeat the good counsel of Ahithophel, that the Lord might bring all evil upon Absalom.