I was a reproach among all my enemies, but especially among my neighbors, and an object of dread to my friends; those who saw me outside have fled from me.

Reproach has broken My heart, and I am full of heaviness. I looked for someone to show pity, but there was no one; and for comforters, but I found none.

You have removed my acquaintances far from me; You have made me an abomination to them; I am shut up, and I cannot go out;

Lover and friend You have removed far from me, and my acquaintances into darkness.

He has removed my brothers far from me, and my acquaintances are completely estranged from me.

Those who dwell in my house, and my maidservants, count me as a stranger; I am a foreigner in their eyes.

My breath is loathsome to my wife, and I must entreat the favor of children for the sake of my own body.

My circle of friends have abhorred me, and those whom I have loved have turned against me.

But all this is happening that the Scriptures of the prophets might be fulfilled. Then all the disciples forsook Him and fled.

At my first defense no one stood with me, but all deserted me. May it not be reckoned against them.

Will the men of Keilah deliver me into his hand? Will Saul come down, as Your servant has heard? O Jehovah the God of Israel, I pray, tell Your servant. And Jehovah said, He will come down.

And David and his men, about six hundred, arose and departed from Keilah and went wherever they could go. Then it was reported to Saul that David had escaped from Keilah; so he left off to go.

And David thought in his heart, Now I shall perish one day at the hand of Saul. There is nothing better for me than that I should slip away to escape to the land of the Philistines; and Saul will despair of me, to seek me anymore in any part of Israel. Thus I shall escape out of his hand.