A miktam of David. Preserve me, O God: for in you do I put my trust.

To the Chief Musician, altaschith. A michtam of David, when he fled from Saul into the cave. Be merciful unto me, O God, be merciful unto me: for my soul trusts in you: yea, in the shadow of your wings will I make my refuge, until these calamities have passed.

To the Chief Musician, altaschith. A michtam of David. Do you indeed speak righteousness, O congregation? do you judge uprightly, O you sons of men?

To the Chief Musician, altaschith. A michtam of David; when Saul sent, and they watched the house to kill him. Deliver me from my enemies, O my God: defend me from them that rise up against me.

To the Chief Musician upon shushaneduth. A michtam of David to teach; when he fought with Aramnaharaim and with Aramzobah, when Joab returned and smote of Edom in the Valley of Salt twelve thousand. O God, you have cast us off, you have scattered us, you have been displeased; O turn yourself to us again.

And the servants of Achish said unto him, Is not this David the king of the land? did they not sing one to another of him in dances, saying, Saul has slain his thousands, and David his ten thousands?

And he changed his behavior before them, and feigned himself mad in their hands, and made marks on the doors of the gate, and let his spittle fall down upon his beard.

Have I need of mad men, that you have brought this fellow to play the mad man in my presence? shall this fellow come into my house?

And the princes of the Philistines were angry with him; and the princes of the Philistines said unto him, Make this fellow return, that he may go again to his place which you have appointed him, and let him not go down with us to battle, lest in the battle he be an adversary to us: for with what should he reconcile himself unto his master? should it not be with the heads of these men?

Have mercy upon me, O LORD, for I am in trouble: my eye is consumed with grief, yea, my soul and my body.

To the Chief Musician, altaschith. A michtam of David, when he fled from Saul into the cave. Be merciful unto me, O God, be merciful unto me: for my soul trusts in you: yea, in the shadow of your wings will I make my refuge, until these calamities have passed.

He shall send from heaven, and save me from the reproach of him that would swallow me up. Selah. God shall send forth his mercy and his truth.

The God of my mercy shall meet me: God shall let me see my desire upon my enemies.

But as for me, my prayer is unto you, O LORD, in an acceptable time: O God, in the multitude of your mercy hear me, in the truth of your salvation.

Let not the floodwater overflow me, neither let the deep swallow me up, and let not the pit shut its mouth upon me.

To him that struck Egypt in their firstborn: for his mercy endures forever:

But overthrew Pharaoh and his host in the Red sea: for his mercy endures forever.

To him who struck great kings: for his mercy endures forever:

Sihon king of the Amorites: for his mercy endures forever:

And in your mercy cut off my enemies, and destroy all them that afflict my soul: for I am your servant.

You shall make them as a fiery oven in the time of your anger: the LORD shall swallow them up in his wrath, and the fire shall devour them.

When the wicked, even my enemies and my foes, came upon me to eat up my flesh, they stumbled and fell.

Let them not say in their hearts, Ah, so would we have it: let them not say, We have swallowed him up.

He shall send from heaven, and save me from the reproach of him that would swallow me up. Selah. God shall send forth his mercy and his truth.

The earth opened and swallowed up Dathan, and covered the company of Abiram.

Then they would have swallowed us up alive, when their wrath was kindled against us:

Let us swallow them up alive as the grave; and whole, as those that go down into the pit:

The Lord has swallowed up all the habitations of Jacob, and has not pitied: he has thrown down in his wrath the strongholds of the daughter of Judah; he has brought them down to the ground: he has polluted the kingdom and its princes.

The Lord was as an enemy: he has swallowed up Israel, he has swallowed up all her palaces: he has destroyed his strongholds, and has increased in the daughter of Judah mourning and lamentation.

All your enemies have opened their mouth against you: they hiss and gnash the teeth: they say, We have swallowed her up: certainly this is the day that we looked for; we have found, we have seen it.

Israel is swallowed up: now shall they be among the Gentiles as a vessel in which is no pleasure.

So when this corruptible shall have put on incorruption, and this mortal shall have put on immortality, then shall be brought to pass the saying that is written, Death is swallowed up in victory.