i1 [To the Chief Musician. A Psalm of David.] i0 par In Jehovah I put my trust; how can you say to my soul, Flee like a bird to the mountains?

If the foundations are destroyed, what can the righteous do?

Ziph, Telem, Bealoth,

Maon, Carmel, Ziph, Juttah,

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.

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

Behold, God is my helper; the Lord is with those who uphold my soul.

for their feet run to evil and they make haste to shed blood.

For they do not sleep unless they have done evil, and their sleep is taken away unless they cause someone to fall.

And it was reported to Saul that David had gone to Keilah. So Saul said, God has alienated him into my hand, for he has shut himself in by entering a town that has gates and bars.

You are my hiding place; You shall preserve me from distress; You shall enclose me with shouts of deliverance. Selah.

The wicked watches the righteous, and seeks to kill him.

Jehovah will not abandon him in his hand, nor allow him to be found guilty when he is judged.

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

Behold, God is my helper; the Lord is with those who uphold my soul.

There is no wisdom nor understanding nor counsel against Jehovah.

And the king commanded Jerahmeel the son of Hammelech, and Seraiah the son of Azriel, and Shelemiah the son of Abdeel, to seize Baruch the scribe and Jeremiah the prophet. But Jehovah hid them.

What then shall we say to these things? If God is for us, who can be against us?

persecutions, afflictions, which happened to me at Antioch, at Iconium, at Lystra; what persecutions I endured. And out of them all the Lord delivered me.

But the Lord stood with me and strengthened me, so that the preaching of the message might be fulfilled through me, and that all the Gentiles might hear. And I was delivered out of the mouth of the lion.

And the Lord will deliver me from every evil work and keep me safe for His Heavenly kingdom. To Him be glory forever and ever. Amen.