The Lord Is in His Holy Temple

To the choirmaster. Of David.

11 In the Lord I take refuge;
how can you say to my soul,
    (A)“Flee like a bird to your mountain,

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14 And David remained in the strongholds in the wilderness, in the hill country (A)of the wilderness of (B)Ziph. And Saul sought him every day, but God did not give him into his hand.

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11 in God I trust; (A)I shall not be afraid.
    What can man do to me?

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Lament over Jerusalem

31 At that very hour some Pharisees came and said to him, “Get away from (A)here, for (B)Herod wants to kill you.”

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(A)You keep him in perfect peace
    whose mind is stayed on you,
    because he trusts in you.
Trust in the Lord forever,
    for the Lord God is an everlasting rock.

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save yourself like a gazelle from the hand of the hunter,[a]
    (A)like a bird from the hand of the fowler.

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Footnotes

  1. Proverbs 6:5 Hebrew lacks of the hunter

And I say, “Oh, that I had wings like a dove!
    I would fly away and be at rest;
(A)yes, I would wander far away;
    I would lodge in the wilderness; Selah

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14 But I (A)trust in you, O Lord;
    I say, “You are my God.”

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O my God, in you I (A)trust;
    (B)let me not be put to shame;
    (C)let not my enemies exult over me.

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You Will Not Abandon My Soul

A (A)Miktam[a] of David.

16 Preserve me, O God, for in you I (B)take refuge.

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Footnotes

  1. Psalm 16:1 Probably a musical or liturgical term

10 And those who (A)know your name put their trust in you,
    for you, O Lord, have not forsaken those who seek you.

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In You Do I Take Refuge

A (A)Shiggaion[a] of David, which he sang to the Lord concerning the words of Cush, a Benjaminite.

O Lord my God, in you do I (B)take refuge;
    (C)save me from all my pursuers and deliver me,

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Footnotes

  1. Psalm 7:1 Probably a musical or liturgical term

Were not (A)the Ethiopians and (B)the Libyans a huge army with very many chariots and horsemen? Yet (C)because you relied on the Lord, he gave them into your hand.

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11 And Asa (A)cried to the Lord his God, “O Lord, there is none like you to help, between the mighty and the weak. Help us, O Lord our God, (B)for we rely on you, (C)and in your name we have come against this multitude. O Lord, you are our God; let not man prevail against you.”

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David Flees to the Philistines

27 Then David said in his heart, “Now I shall perish one day by the hand of Saul. There is nothing better for me than that I should escape to the land of the Philistines. Then Saul will despair of seeking me any longer within the borders of Israel, and I shall escape out of his hand.”

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And David went from there to Mizpeh of Moab. And he said to the king of Moab, “Please let my father and my mother stay[a] with you, till I know what God will do for me.”

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Footnotes

  1. 1 Samuel 22:3 Syriac, Vulgate; Hebrew go out

David Flees to Gath

10 And David rose and fled that day from Saul and went to (A)Achish the king of Gath. 11 And the servants of Achish said to him, “Is not this David the king of the land? (B)Did they not sing to one another of him in dances,

‘Saul has struck down his thousands,
    and David his ten thousands’?”

12 And David (C)took these words to heart and was much afraid of Achish the king of Gath.

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38 And Jonathan called after the boy, “Hurry! Be quick! Do not stay!” So Jonathan's boy gathered up the arrows and came to his master.

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11 (A)Saul sent messengers to David's house to watch him, that he might kill him in the morning. But Michal, David's wife, told him, “If you do not escape with your life tonight, tomorrow you will be killed.”

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