And David was greatly distressed, for the people spoke of stoning him, because the souls of all the people had become bitter, every man for his sons and his daughters. But David strengthened himself in Jehovah his God.

For, said Hushai, you know your father and his men, that they are mighty men, and they are bitter of soul, like a bear robbed of her cubs in the field; and your father is a man of war, and will not lodge with the people.

Let darkness and the shadow of death redeem it; let a cloud settle on it; let the blackness of the day terrify it.

As the Mighty God lives, who has taken away my justice, and the Almighty, who has made my soul bitter,