In my distress I called on Jehovah, and I cried to my God; He heard my voice out of His temple, and my cry came before Him, into His ears.

And He bowed the heavens and came down, and darkness was under His feet.

When the wicked, my enemies and my foes, came on me to eat my flesh, they stumbled and fell.

To the Chief Musician. A Psalm of David, when Nathan the prophet came to him, after he had gone in to Bathsheba. Have mercy on me, O God, according to Your loving-kindness; according to the multitude of Your tender mercies, blot out my transgressions.

To the Chief Musician. A contemplation. A Psalm of David, when Doeg the Edomite came and told Saul, and said to him, David has come to the house of Ahimelech. Why do you boast yourself in evil, O mighty man? The mercy of God endures forever.

To the Chief Musician. On stringed instruments. A contemplation. A Psalm of David, when the Ziphites came and said to Saul, Does not David hide himself among us? Save me, O God, by Your name, and judge me by Your strength.

The singers went before, then the musicians came; among them were the virgins playing the timbrels.

Therefore Jehovah heard, and was made furious; so a fire was kindled against Jacob, and anger also came up against Israel,

the wrath of God came on them and killed the fattest of them, and struck down the chosen of Israel.

until the time that his word came, the Word of Jehovah refined him.

Israel also came into Egypt, and Jacob resided in the land of Ham.

He spoke, and there came fly swarms and gnats in all their borders.

He spoke, and locusts came, and larvae without number;

like the dew of Hermon that came down on the mountains of Zion; for there Jehovah commanded the blessing, life forevermore.