The Lord Upholds My Life
To the choirmaster: with stringed instruments. A Maskil1 of David, qwhen the Ziphites went and told Saul, “Is not David hiding among us?”
1 O God, save me by your name,
and vindicate me by your might.
2 O God, hear my prayer;
give ear to the words of my mouth.
3 For rstrangers2 have risen against me;
ruthless men seek my life;
they do not set God before themselves. Selah
4 Behold, God is my shelper;
the Lord is the upholder of my life.
5 tHe will return the evil to my enemies;
in your faithfulness uput an end to them.
6 With a freewill offering I will sacrifice to you;
vI will give thanks to your name, O Lord, wfor it is good.
7 For he has xdelivered me from every trouble,
and my eye has ylooked in triumph on my enemies.
19 kThen the Ziphites went up to Saul at Gibeah, saying, “Is not David hiding among us in the strongholds at Horesh, on the hill of Hachilah, which is south of Jeshimon? 20 Now come down, O king, according to all your heart’s desire to come down, and our part shall be to surrender him into the king’s hand.” 21 And Saul said, “May you be blessed by the Lord, for you have lhad compassion on me. 22 Go, make yet more sure. Know and see the place where his foot is, and who has seen him there, for it is told me that he is very cunning. 23 See therefore and take note of all the lurking places where he hides, and come back to me with sure information. Then I will go with you. And if he is in the land, I will search him out among all the thousands of Judah.” 24 And they arose and went to Ziph ahead of Saul.
Now David and his men were in the wilderness of Maon, in the Arabah to the south of Jeshimon. 25 And Saul and his men went to seek him. And David was told, so he went down to the rock and lived in the wilderness of Maon. And when Saul heard that, he pursued after David in the wilderness of Maon.
