¹⁰ My God will go before me with his loving kindness. God will let me look at my enemies in triumph.

⁷ For he has delivered me out of all trouble. My eye has seen triumph over my enemies.

³ For you meet him with the blessings of goodness; You set a crown of fine gold on his head.

²⁴ It shall happen that, before they call, I will answer; and while they are yet speaking, I will hear.

¹⁶ As for me, I have not hurried from being a shepherd after you; neither have I desired the woeful day; you know: that which came out of my lips was before your face.

⁴¹ When he drew near, he saw the city and wept over it,

⁴² saying, "If you, even you, had known today the things which belong to your peace! But now, they are hidden from your eyes.

⁴³ For the days will come on you, when your enemies will throw up a barricade against you, surround you, hem you in on every side,

⁴⁴ and will dash you and your children within you to the ground. They will not leave in you one stone on another, because you didn't know the time of your visitation."

² For I testify about them that they have a zeal for God, but not according to knowledge.

³ For being ignorant of God's righteousness, and seeking to establish their own righteousness, they didn't subject themselves to the righteousness of God.

³ Blessed be the God and Father of our Lord Jesus Christ, the Father of mercies and God of all comfort;

⁴ But God, being rich in mercy, for his great love with which he loved us,

⁵ even when we were dead through our trespasses, made us alive together with Christ (by grace you have been saved),

¹⁵ For this we tell you by the word of the Lord, that we who are alive, who are left to the coming of the Lord, will in no way precede those who have fallen asleep.

¹⁰ But may the God of all grace, who called you to his eternal glory by Christ Jesus, after you have suffered a little while, perfect, establish, strengthen, and settle you.

⁸ His heart is established. He will not be afraid in the end when he sees his adversaries.

¹¹ My eye has also seen my enemies. My ears have heard of the wicked enemies who rise up against me.

¹¹ Then David took hold on his clothes, and tore them; and likewise all the men who were with him:

¹² and they mourned, and wept, and fasted until even, for Saul, and for Jonathan his son, and for the people of Yahweh, and for the house of Israel; because they were fallen by the sword.

¹⁷ David lamented with this lamentation over Saul and over Jonathan his son

⁸ Lead me, Yahweh, in your righteousness because of my enemies. Make your way straight before my face.

⁵ He will repay the evil to my enemies. Destroy them in your truth.

² My enemies want to swallow me up all day long, For they are many who fight proudly against me.

⁶ They conspire and lurk, Watching my steps, they are eager to take my life.

¹⁷ To you, my strength, I will sing praises. For God is my high tower, the God of my mercy.

⁸ Don't hold the iniquities of our forefathers against us. Let your tender mercies speedily meet us, For we are in desperate need.

⁸ You will only look with your eyes, And see the recompense of the wicked.

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.