You Are My Refuge
A Maskil1 of David, nwhen he was oin the cave. A Prayer.
1 pWith my voice I cry out to the Lord;
with my voice I qplead for mercy to the Lord.
2 I rpour out my complaint before him;
I tell my trouble before him.
3 When smy spirit faints within me,
you know my way!
In the path where I walk
they have hidden a trap for me.
4 Look to the right and see:
there is none who takes notice of me;
tno refuge remains to me;
no one cares for my soul.
5 I cry to you, O Lord;
I say, “You are my refuge,
umy portion in the land of the living.”
6 vAttend to my cry,
for I am brought very low!
wDeliver me from my persecutors,
for they are too strong for me!
7 xBring me out of prison,
that I may give thanks to your name!
The righteous will surround me,
for you will deal bountifully with me.
David at the Cave of Adullam
1 David departed from there and escaped to the scave of tAdullam. And when his brothers and all his father’s house heard it, they went down there to him. 2 And everyone who was in distress, and everyone who was in debt, and everyone who was bitter in soul,1 ugathered to him. And he became commander over them. And there were with him about four hundred men.
