For strangers have risen up against me, and terrible men seek after my soul; they have not set God before them. Selah.

Now a certain man of the servants of Saul was there that day, detained before Jehovah. And his name was Doeg, an Edomite, the chief of Saul's shepherds.

Then answered Doeg the Edomite, who was set over the servants of Saul, and said, I saw the son of Jesse coming to Nob, to Ahimelech the son of Ahitub.

So the king sent to summon Ahimelech the priest, the son of Ahitub, and all his father's house, the priests who were at Nob. And they all came to the king.

And Saul said to him, Why have you conspired against me, you and the son of Jesse, in that you have given him bread and a sword, and have inquired of God for him, that he should rise up against me, to lie in wait, as it is this day?

Have I this day begun to inquire of God for him? Let it not be! Let not the king impute anything to his servant, or to any in the house of my father; for your servant has known nothing of all this, little or much.

And the king said to the guards who stood about him, Turn and kill the priests of Jehovah, because their hand also is with David, and because they knew when he was fleeing and did not disclose it in my ear. But the servants of the king would not lift their hands to fall upon the priests of Jehovah.

Also Nob, the city of the priests, he struck with the edge of the sword, both men and women, children and nursing infants, oxen and donkeys and sheep; with the edge of the sword.

Behold, they belch with their mouth; swords are in their lips; for they say, Who hears?

Their tongue is a slaughtering arrow; it speaks deceit; one speaks peaceably to his neighbor with his mouth, but in his heart he lies in wait.

For any kind of trespass, whether it be an ox, a donkey, a sheep, or clothing, or for any kind of lost item which another says is his, the matter of both of them shall come before the judges; and whomever the judges declare guilty shall restore double to his neighbor.

The wicked in his pride persecutes the lowly; let them be caught in the plots that they have devised.

For the wicked boasts of his heart's desire, and blesses those who plunder, whom Jehovah has spurned.

They belch forth, and speak arrogant things; all the workers of iniquity boast in themselves.

defamers, haters of God, insolent, proud, boasters, inventors of evil things, disobedient to parents,

For men will be lovers of themselves, lovers of money, boasters, proud, blasphemers, disobedient to parents, unthankful, unholy,

Behold, he writhes in iniquity, and has conceived trouble, and has brought forth falsehood.

His mouth is full of cursing and deceit and oppression; under his tongue are trouble and wickedness.

The words of his mouth are wickedness and deceit; he has left off acting wisely and doing good.

Your mercy, O Jehovah, is in the heavens; Your faithfulness reaches to the clouds.

Perversity is in his heart, he devises evil all the time, he spreads strife.

a heart that devises evil plans, feet hurrying to run to evil,

No one calls for justice, nor does anyone plead for truth; they trust in vanity and speak lies. They conceive mischief and bring forth iniquity.

Both hands are on evil, to do it well. Both the ruler and the judge ask for a bribe. And the great one speaks the lust of his soul; and they weave it together.

There were giants on the earth in those days. And also afterward, when the sons of God came in to the daughters of men and they bore children to them, these were the mighty men from antiquity, men of renown.

And Jehovah saw that the evil of man was great on the earth, and that every imagination of the thoughts of his heart was only evil all day long.

And Cush begot Nimrod; he began to be a mighty one on the earth.

He was a mighty hunter before Jehovah; therefore it is said, Like Nimrod the mighty hunter before Jehovah.

Now a certain man of the servants of Saul was there that day, detained before Jehovah. And his name was Doeg, an Edomite, the chief of Saul's shepherds.

But the mercy of Jehovah is from everlasting to everlasting upon those who fear Him, and His righteousness unto children's children,

Oh, give thanks unto Jehovah, for He is good; for His mercy is eternal.

By the rivers of Babylon, there we sat down, yea, we wept when we remembered Zion.

We hung our harps upon the willows in the midst of it.

Beloved, let us love one another, for love is from God; and everyone who loves is born from God and knows God.

He who does not love does not know God, for God is love.