Now David was greatly distressed, for the people spoke of stoning him, because the soul of all the people was grieved, every man for his sons and his daughters. But David strengthened himself in the LORD his God.

"For," said Hushai, "you know your father and his men, that they [are] mighty men, and they [are] enraged in their minds, like a bear robbed of her cubs in the field; and your father [is] a man of war, and will not camp with the people.

May darkness and the shadow of death claim it; May a cloud settle on it; May the blackness of the day terrify it.

"[As] God lives, [who] has taken away my justice, And the Almighty, [who] has made my soul bitter,