2 Samuel 17:1

Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

Moreover Ahithophel said unto Absalom, Let me now choose out twelve thousand men, and I will arise and pursue after David this night:

For their feet run to evil
And they hasten to shed blood.

For they cannot sleep unless they do evil;
And they are robbed of sleep unless they make someone stumble.

Their feet run to evil,

And they hasten to shed innocent blood;

Their thoughts are thoughts of iniquity,

Devastation and destruction are in their highways.

But You, O Lord, are a shield about me,
My glory, and the One who lifts my head.

In peace I will both lie down and sleep,
For You alone, O Lord, make me to dwell in safety.

For they have opened the wicked and deceitful mouth against me;
They have spoken against me with a lying tongue.

See, I am going to wait at the fords of the wilderness until word comes from you to inform me.”

You pushed me violently so that I was falling,
But the Lord

helped me.