Psalm 142

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Give Heed to My Cry

A Maskil of David. When he was in the cave. A Prayer.

With my voice to Yahweh, I cry aloud;

With my voice to Yahweh, I make supplication.

I pour out my complaint before Him;

I declare my distress before Him.

When my spirit was faint within me,

You knew my path.

In the way where I walk

They have hidden a trap for me.

Look to the right and see;

That there is no one who regards me;

A way of escape has been destroyed from me;

No one cares for my soul.

I cried out to You, O Yahweh;

I said, “You are my refuge,

My portion in the land of the living.

Give heed to my cry of lamentation,

For I am brought very low;

Deliver me from my persecutors,

For they are too strong for me.

Bring my soul out of prison,

To give thanks to Your name;

The righteous will encircle me,

For You will deal bountifully with me.”

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1 Samuel 22:1 - 22:2

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David at the Cave of Adullam

So David departed from there and escaped to the cave of Adullam; and his brothers and all his father’s household heard of it and went down there to him. 2 Then everyone who was in distress, and everyone who was in debt, and everyone who was bitter of soul, gathered to him; and he became a commander over them. Now there were about four hundred men with him.

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