I trust in the LORD for safety. How foolish of you to say to me, "Fly away like a bird to the mountains,

There is nothing a good person can do when everything falls apart."

Ziph, Telem, Bealoth,

There were Maon, Carmel, Ziph, Juttah,

David said to himself, "One of these days Saul will kill me. The best thing for me to do is to escape to Philistia. Then Saul will give up looking for me in Israel, and I will be safe."

Proud people are coming to attack me; cruel people are trying to kill me--- those who do not care about God.

But God is my helper. The Lord is my defender.

They can't wait to do something bad. They're always ready to kill.

Wicked people cannot sleep unless they have done something wrong. They lie awake unless they have hurt someone.

Saul was told that David had gone to Keilah, and he said, "God has put him in my power. David has trapped himself by going into a walled town with fortified gates."

You are my hiding place; you will save me from trouble. I sing aloud of your salvation, because you protect me.

Wicked people watch good people and try to kill them;

but the LORD will not abandon them to their enemy's power or let them be condemned when they are on trial.

Proud people are coming to attack me; cruel people are trying to kill me--- those who do not care about God.

But God is my helper. The Lord is my defender.

Human wisdom, brilliance, insight---they are of no help if the LORD is against you.

Then he ordered Prince Jerahmeel, together with Seraiah son of Azriel and Shelemiah son of Abdeel, to arrest me and my secretary Baruch. But the LORD had hidden us.

In view of all this, what can we say? If God is for us, who can be against us?

my persecutions, and my sufferings. You know all that happened to me in Antioch, Iconium, and Lystra, the terrible persecutions I endured! But the Lord rescued me from them all.

But the Lord stayed with me and gave me strength, so that I was able to proclaim the full message for all the Gentiles to hear; and I was rescued from being sentenced to death.

And the Lord will rescue me from all evil and take me safely into his heavenly Kingdom. To him be the glory forever and ever! Amen.