therefore David arose and went, he and his men, and killed two hundred men of the Philistines. And David brought their foreskins, and they gave them in full count to the king, that he might become the king's son-in-law. Then Saul gave him Michal his daughter as a wife.

And his servants came near and spoke to him, and said, "My father, [if] the prophet had told you [to do] something great, would you not have done [it?] How much more then, when he says to you, 'Wash, and be clean'?"

A soft answer turns away wrath, But a harsh word stirs up anger.

And he said, "Why does my lord thus pursue his servant? For what have I done, or what evil [is] in my hand?

O LORD my God, if I have done this: If there is iniquity in my hands,

If I have repaid evil to him who was at peace with me, Or have plundered my enemy without cause,

For without cause they have hidden their net for me [in] a pit, [Which] they have dug without cause for my life.

"But [this happened] that the word might be fulfilled which is written in their law, 'They hated Me without a cause.'

And David stayed in strongholds in the wilderness, and remained in the mountains in the Wilderness of Ziph. Saul sought him every day, but God did not deliver him into his hand.

"See therefore, and take knowledge of all the lurking places where he hides; and come back to me with certainty, and I will go with you. And it shall be, if he is in the land, that I will search for him throughout all the clans of Judah."

"So now, do not let my blood fall to the earth before the face of the LORD. For the king of Israel has come out to seek a flea, as when one hunts a partridge in the mountains."

If [my head] is exalted, You hunt me like a fierce lion, And again You show Yourself awesome against me.

Let not a slanderer be established in the earth; Let evil hunt the violent man to overthrow [him."]

They tracked our steps So that we could not walk in our streets. Our end was near; Our days were over, For our end had come.

"and say, 'Thus says the Lord GOD: "Woe to the [women] who sew [magic] charms on their sleeves and make veils for the heads of people of every height to hunt souls! Will you hunt the souls of My people, and keep yourselves alive?

The faithful [man] has perished from the earth, And [there is] no one upright among men. They all lie in wait for blood; Every man hunts his brother with a net.