¹⁸ After this, he was in great need of water, and crying out to the Lord, he said, You have given this great salvation by the hand of your servant, and now need of water will be my death; and I will be given into the hands of this people who are without circumcision.

¹² And I am certain that when the men of Egypt see you, they will say, This is his wife: and they will put me to death and keep you.

¹³ Say, then, that you are my sister, and so it will be well with me because of you, and my life will be kept safe on your account.

⁷ And because the revelations were so very great, in order that I might not be overmuch lifted up, there was given to me a thorn in the flesh, one sent from Satan to give me pain.

⁸ And about this thing I made request to the Lord three times that it might be taken away from me.

⁸ Troubles are round us on every side, but we are not shut in; things are hard for us, but we see a way out of them;

⁹ We are cruelly attacked, but not without hope; we are made low, but we are not without help;

⁸ For it is our desire that you may not be without knowledge of our trouble which came on us in Asia, that the weight of it was very great, more than our power, so that it seemed that we had no hope even of life:

⁹ Yes, we ourselves have had the answer of death in ourselves, so that our hope might not be in ourselves, but in God who is able to give life to the dead:

²⁸ After this, being conscious that all things had now been done so that the Writings might come true, Jesus said, Give me water.

¹⁴ I am flowing away like water, and all my bones are out of place: my heart is like wax, it has become soft in my body.

¹⁵ My throat is dry like a broken vessel; my tongue is fixed to the roof of my mouth, and the dust of death is on my lips.

³¹ For who is God but the Lord? or who is a Rock but our God?

³² God puts a strong band about me, guiding me in a straight way.

³³ He makes my feet like roes' feet, and puts me on high places.

³⁴ He makes my hands expert in war, so that a bow of brass is bent by my arms.

³⁵ You have given me the breastplate of your salvation: your right hand has been my support, and your mercy has made me great.

³⁶ You have made my steps wide under me, so that my feet are kept from slipping.

³⁷ I go after my haters and overtake them; not turning back till they are all overcome.

³⁸ I will give them wounds, so that they are not able to get up: they are stretched under my feet.

³⁹ For I have been armed by you with strength for the fight: you have made low under me those who come out against me.

⁴⁰ By you their backs are turned in flight, so that my haters are cut off.

⁷ Come to me, Lord; keep me safe, O my God; for you have given all my haters blows on their face-bones; the teeth of the evil-doers have been broken by you.

⁸ Salvation comes from the Lord; your blessing is on your people. (Selah.)

²⁰ Give no news of it in Gath, let it not be said in the streets of Ashkelon; or the daughters of the Philistines will be glad, the daughters of men without circumcision will be uplifted in joy.

¹ And David said to himself, Some day death will come to me by the hand of Saul: the only thing for me to do is to get away into the land of the Philistines; then Saul will give up hope of taking me in any part of the land of Israel: and so I may be able to get away from him.

³⁶ Your servant has overcome lion and bear: and the fate of this Philistine, who is without circumcision, will be like theirs, seeing that he has put shame on the armies of the living God.

²⁶ And David said to the men near him, What will be done to the man who overcomes this Philistine and takes away the shame from Israel? for who is this Philistine, a man without circumcision, that he has put shame on the armies of the living God?

²⁸ And Samson, crying out to the Lord, said, O Lord God, do have me now in mind, and do make me strong only this once, O God, so that I may take one last payment from the Philistines for my two eyes.

⁴ Then Gideon came to Jordan and went over it with his three hundred, overcome with weariness and in need of food.

³¹ And while he was going past Peniel, the sun came up. And he went with unequal steps because of his damaged leg.

¹¹ And Abraham said, Because it seemed to me that there was no fear of God in this place, and that they might put me to death because of my wife.

³² What more am I to say? For there would not be time to give the stories of Gideon, Barak, Samson, and Jephthah, of David and Samuel and the prophets: