²¹ Praise be to Yahweh, For he has shown me his marvelous loving kindness in a strong city.

⁷ Show your marvelous loving kindness, You who save those who take refuge by your right hand from their enemies.

⁷ It was told Saul that David was come to Keilah. Saul said, God has delivered him into my hand; for he is shut in, by entering into a town that has gates and bars.

⁸ Saul summoned all the people to war, to go down to Keilah, to besiege David and his men.

⁹ David knew that Saul was devising mischief against him; and he said to Abiathar the priest, Bring here the ephod.

¹⁰ Then said David, O Yahweh, the God of Israel, your servant has surely heard that Saul seeks to come to Keilah, to destroy the city for my sake.

¹¹ Will the men of Keilah deliver me up into his hand? will Saul come down, as your servant has heard? Yahweh, the God of Israel, I beg you, tell your servant. Yahweh said, He will come down.

¹² Then said David, Will the men of Keilah deliver up to me and my men into the hand of Saul? Yahweh said, They will deliver you up.

¹³ Then David and his men, who were about six hundred, arose and departed out of Keilah, and went wherever they could go. It was told Saul that David was escaped from Keilah; and he gave up going there.

¹ > Sing to Yahweh a new song, For he has done marvelous things! His right hand, and his holy arm, have worked salvation for him.

²³ This is Yahweh's doing. It is marvelous in our eyes.

¹⁸ For, behold, I have made you this day a fortified city, and an iron pillar, and brazen walls, against the whole land, against the kings of Judah, against the princes of it, against the priests of it, and against the people of the land.

⁹ But you are a chosen race, a royal priesthood, a holy nation, a people for God's own possession, that you may show forth the excellencies of him who called you out of darkness into his marvelous light: