Hushai Saves David

17 Moreover, Ahithophel said to Absalom, “Let me choose twelve thousand men, and I will arise and pursue David tonight.

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(A)Their feet run to evil,
    and they are swift to shed innocent blood;
their thoughts are thoughts of iniquity;
    desolation and destruction are in their highways.
The way of peace they do not know,
    and there is no justice in their paths;
they have made their roads crooked;
    (B)no one who treads on them knows peace.

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16 For they (A)cannot sleep unless they have done wrong;
    they are robbed of sleep unless they have made someone stumble.

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For wicked and (A)deceitful mouths are opened against me,
    speaking against me with lying tongues.
They encircle me with words of hate,
    and attack me (B)without cause.
In return for my love they (C)accuse me,
    but I (D)give myself to prayer.[a]

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Footnotes

  1. Psalm 109:4 Hebrew but I am prayer

In peace I will both (A)lie down and sleep;
    for you alone, O Lord, make me (B)dwell in safety.

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But you, O Lord, are (A)a shield (B)about me,
    my glory, and (C)the lifter of my head.
I (D)cried aloud to the Lord,
    and he (E)answered me from his (F)holy hill. Selah

I (G)lay down and slept;
    I woke again, for the Lord sustained me.

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16 for (A)their feet run to evil,
    and they make haste to shed blood.

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