⁶¹ The ropes of the wicked bind me, But I won't forget your law.

¹⁷⁶ I have gone astray like a lost sheep. Seek your servant, for I don't forget your commandments.

¹⁷ Repay no one evil for evil. Respect what is honorable in the sight of all men.

¹⁸ If it is possible, as much as it is up to you, be at peace with all men.

¹⁹ Don't seek revenge yourselves, beloved, but give place to God's wrath. For it is written, "Vengeance belongs to me; I will repay, says the Lord."

²⁰ Therefore "If your enemy is hungry, feed him. If he is thirsty, give him a drink. For in doing so, you will heap coals of fire on his head."

²¹ Don't be overcome by evil, but overcome evil with good.

⁹ As gangs of robbers wait to ambush a man, So the company of priests murder in the way toward Shechem, Committing shameful crimes.

²⁹ Don't say, "I will do to him as he has done to me; I will render to the man according to his work."

⁵ The proud have hidden a snare for me, They have spread the cords of a net by the path. They have set traps for me. Selah.

⁹⁵ The wicked have waited for me, to destroy me. I will consider your statutes.

¹ > Yahweh, how my adversaries have increased! Many are those who rise up against me.

¹⁷ While he was still speaking, there came also another, and said, "The Chaldeans made three bands, and swept down on the camels, and have taken them away, yes, and killed the servants with the edge of the sword; and I alone have escaped to tell you."

³ When David and his men came to the city, behold, it was burned with fire; and their wives, and their sons, and their daughters, were taken captive.

⁴ Then David and the people who were with him lifted up their voice and wept, until they had no more power to weep.

⁵ David's two wives were taken captive, Ahinoam the Jezreelitess, and Abigail the wife of Nabal the Carmelite.

⁹ David said to Abishai, Don't destroy him; for who can put forth his hand against Yahweh's anointed, and be guiltless?

¹⁰ David said, As Yahweh lives, Yahweh will strike him; or his day shall come to die; or he shall go down into battle and perish.

¹¹ Yahweh forbid that I should put forth my hand against Yahweh's anointed: but now please take the spear that is at his head, and the jar of water, and let us go.

⁹ David said to Saul, Why listen you to men's words, saying, Behold, David seeks your hurt?

¹⁰ Behold, this day your eyes have seen how that Yahweh had delivered you today into my hand in the cave: and some bade me kill you; but [my eye] spared you; and I said, I will not put forth my hand against my lord; for he is Yahweh's anointed.

¹¹ Moreover, my father, behold, yes, see the skirt of your robe in my hand; for in that I cut off the skirt of your robe, and didn't kill you, know you and see that there is neither evil nor disobedience in my hand, and I have not sinned against you, though you hunt after my life to take it.