¹ > I cry with my voice to Yahweh. With my voice, I ask Yahweh for mercy.

¹ > Be merciful to me, God, be merciful to me, For my soul takes refuge in you. Yes, in the shadow of your wings, I will take refuge, Until disaster has passed.

⁸ I cried to you, Yahweh. To Yahweh I made supplication:

¹ > Yahweh, I have called on you. Come to me quickly! Listen to my voice when I call to you.

¹ > Save me, God, by your name. Vindicate me in your might.

² Hear the voice of my petitions, when I cry to you, When I lift up my hands toward your Most Holy Place.

³⁸ (of whom the world was not worthy), wandering in deserts, mountains, caves, and the holes of the earth.

¹ > Blessed is he whose disobedience is forgiven, Whose sin is covered.

¹⁰ Jabez called on the God of Israel, saying, Oh that you would bless me indeed, and enlarge my border, and that your hand might be with me, and that you would keep me from evil, that it not be to my sorrow! God granted him that which he requested.

³ He came to the sheep pens by the way, where was a cave; and Saul went in to cover his feet. Now David and his men were abiding in the innermost parts of the cave.

¹ David therefore departed there, and escaped to the cave of Adullam: and when his brothers and all his father's house heard it, they went down there to him.

² Everyone who was in distress, and everyone who was in debt, and everyone who was discontented, gathered themselves to him; and he became captain over them: and there were with him about four hundred men.

¹ > My cry goes to God! Indeed, I cry to God for help, And for him to listen to me.

² In the day of my trouble I sought the Lord. My hand was stretched out in the night, and didn't get tired. My soul refused to be comforted.