I cry out for help to the sovereign God, to the God who vindicates me.

For you will extend your great loyal love to me, and will deliver my life from the depths of Sheol.

Your anger bears down on me, and you overwhelm me with all your waves. (Selah)

They surround me like water all day long; they join forces and encircle me.

Cruel rulers are not your allies, those who make oppressive laws.

They repay me evil for good, and hate for love.

At the top of the elevated places along the way, at the intersection of the paths she takes her stand;

The Beloved about Her Lover: He brought me into the banquet hall, and he looked at me lovingly.

Leave your orphans behind and I will keep them alive. Your widows too can depend on me.”

For all of you have conspired against me! No one informs me when my own son makes an agreement with this son of Jesse! Not one of you feels sorry for me or informs me that my own son has commissioned my own servant to hide in ambush against me, as is the case today!”

My father may touch me! Then he’ll think I’m mocking him and I’ll bring a curse on myself instead of a blessing.”

So his mother told him, “Any curse against you will fall on me, my son! Just obey me! Go and get them for me!”

Then Israel sang this song: “Spring up, O well, sing to it!

So he said to her, “How often do you intend to get drunk? Put away your wine!”

However, Eli called Samuel and said, “Samuel, my son!” He replied, “Here I am.”

The ark of God was taken, and the two sons of Eli, Hophni and Phineas, were killed.

I would go out after it, strike it down, and rescue the sheep from its mouth. If it rose up against me, I would grab it by its jaw, strike it, and kill it.

David said to him, “If you leave with me you will be a burden to me.

David said, “All of this I put in writing as the Lord directed me and gave me insight regarding the details of the blueprints.”

I recognized the fact that God had not sent him, for he had spoken the prophecy against me as a hired agent of Tobiah and Sanballat.