¹ Moreover Ahithophel said unto Absalom, Let me now choose out twelve thousand men, and I will arise and pursue after David this night:

³ But thou, O Jehovah, art a shield about me; My glory and the lifter up of my head.

⁴ I cry unto Jehovah with my voice, And he answereth me out of his holy hill. Selah

⁵ I laid me down and slept; I awaked; for Jehovah sustaineth me.

⁸ In peace will I both lay me down and sleep; For thou, Jehovah, alone makest me dwell in safety. Psalm 5 For the Chief Musician; with the Nehiloth. A Psalm of David.

² For the mouth of the wicked and the mouth of deceit have they opened against me: They have spoken unto me with a lying tongue.

³ They have compassed me about also with words of hatred, And fought against me without a cause.

⁴ For my love they are my adversaries: But I `give myself unto' prayer.

¹⁶ For they sleep not, except they do evil; And their sleep is taken away, unless they cause some to fall.

⁷ Their feet run to evil, and they make haste to shed innocent blood: their thoughts are thoughts of iniquity; desolation and destruction are in their paths.

⁸ The way of peace they know not; and there is no justice in their goings: they have made them crooked paths; whosoever goeth therein doth not know peace.

¹⁶ For their feet run to evil, And they make haste to shed blood.