Psalm 54

God Is My Helper

For the choir director. With stringed instruments. A Maskil of David. When the Ziphites came and said to Saul, “Is not David hiding himself among us?”

O God, save me by Your name,

And render justice to me by Your might.

O God, hear my prayer;

Give ear to the words of my mouth.

For strangers have risen against me

And ruthless men have sought my life;

They have not set God before them. Selah.

Behold, God is my helper;

The Lord is among those who sustain my soul.

He will return the evil to my foes;

Destroy them in Your truth.

With a freewill offering I will sacrifice to You;

I will give thanks to Your name, O Yahweh, for it is good.

For He has delivered me from all distress,

And my eye has looked in triumph upon my enemies.

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1 Samuel 23:19 - 23:25

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19 Then Ziphites came up to Saul at Gibeah, saying, “Is David not hiding with us in the strongholds at Horesh, on the hill of Hachilah, which is on the south of Jeshimon? 20 So now, O king, according to all the desire of your soul to come down, come down here; and our part shall be to surrender him into the king’s hand.” 21 And Saul said, “May you be blessed of Yahweh, for you have had compassion on me. 22 Go now, make more sure, and know and see his place—where his very foot is—and who has seen him there; for I am told that he is very crafty. 23 So see and know about all the hiding places where he hides himself and return to me with certainty, and I will go with you; and if he is in the land, I will search him out among all the thousands of Judah.” 24 Then they arose and went to Ziph before Saul. Now David and his men were in the wilderness of Maon, in the Arabah to the south of Jeshimon. 25 So Saul and his men went to seek him, and they told David, and he came down to the rock and stayed in the wilderness of Maon. And Saul heard it and pursued David in the wilderness of Maon.

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