“So now, take your positions and watch this great thing that the Lord is about to do in your sight.

So Saul said to his servants, “Find me a man who plays well and bring him to me.”

Now let this present that your servant has brought to my lord be given to the servants who follow my lord.

So Achish trusted David, thinking to himself, “He is really hated among his own people in Israel! From now on he will be my servant.”

Jonadab said to the king, “Look! The king’s sons have come! It’s just as I said!”

As he yelled curses, Shimei said, “Leave! Leave! You man of bloodshed, you wicked man!

Your attendants, who stand before you at all times and hear your wise sayings, are truly happy!

Your attendants, who stand before you at all times and hear your wise sayings, are truly happy!

They settled down in it and built in it a temple to honor you, saying,

Look how they are repaying us! They come to drive us out of our allotted land which you assigned to us!

“This is what King Sennacherib of Assyria says: ‘Why are you so confident that you remain in Jerusalem while it is under siege?

Wherever you hear the sound of the trumpet, gather there with us. Our God will fight for us!”

These are the priests and Levites who returned with Zerubbabel son of Shealtiel and Jeshua: Seraiah, Jeremiah, Ezra,

This is the portion of the wicked man allotted by God, the inheritance that evildoers receive from the Almighty.

So do not say, ‘We have found wisdom! God will refute him, not man!’

Where would I be if I did not believe I would experience the Lord’s favor in the land of the living?

Turn your angry gaze away from me, so I can be happy before I pass away.

The Lord who commands armies is on our side! The God of Jacob is our protector! (Selah)

The Lord who commands armies is on our side! The God of Jacob is our protector! (Selah)

He says: “Listen my people! I am speaking! Listen Israel! I am accusing you! I am God, your God!