³ In the time of my fear, I will have faith in you.

⁴ I was searching for the Lord, and he gave ear to my voice, and made me free from all my fears.

⁴ My heart is deeply wounded, and the fear of death has come on me.

⁵ Fear and shaking have come over me, with deep fear I am covered.

⁶ And David was greatly troubled; for the people were talking of stoning him, because their hearts were bitter, every man sorrowing for his sons and his daughters: but David made himself strong in the Lord his God.

¹⁰ Then David got up and went in flight that day for fear of Saul, and went to Achish, the king of Gath.

¹² And David took these words to heart, fearing Achish, the king of Gath.

¹ <For the chief music-maker. Of David.> In the Lord put I my faith; how will you say to my soul, Go in flight like a bird to the mountain?

⁵ For even when we had come into Macedonia our flesh had no rest, but we were troubled on every side; there were fightings outside and fears inside.

⁶ But God who gives comfort to the poor in spirit gave us comfort by the coming of Titus;

³ Then Jehoshaphat, in his fear, went to the Lord for directions, and gave orders all through Judah for the people to go without food.

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:

¹⁰ Who gave us salvation from so great a death: on whom we have put our hope that he will still go on to give us salvation;