Now David was sitting between the two gates: and the watchman went up to the roof of the gate to the wall, and lifted up his eyes, and looked, and, behold, a man running alone.

Now the watchman was standing on the tower in Jezreel, and he spied the company of Jehu as he came, and said, "I see a company." Joram said, "Take a horseman, and send to meet them, and let him say, 'Is it peace?'"

The children of Israel did secretly things that were not right against Yahweh their God: and they built them high places in all their cities, from the tower of the watchmen to the fortified city;

They prepare the table. They set the watch. They eat. They drink. Rise up, you princes, oil the shield!

I have set watchmen on your walls, Jerusalem; they shall never hold their peace day nor night: you who call on Yahweh, take no rest,

And will

Aren't you from everlasting, Yahweh my God, my Holy One? We will not die. Yahweh, you have appointed him for judgment. You, Rock, have established him to punish.

I will hear what God, Yahweh, will speak, for he will speak peace to his people, his saints; but let them not turn again to folly.

Unto me

seeing that you seek a proof of Christ who speaks in me; who toward you is not weak, but is powerful in you.

to reveal his Son in me, that I might preach him among the Gentiles, I didn't immediately confer with flesh and blood,

When i am reproved

I would know the words which he would answer me, and understand what he would tell me.

oh that I had one to hear me! (behold, here is my signature, let the Almighty answer me); let the accuser write my indictment!

You are righteous, Yahweh, when I contend with you; yet I would reason the cause with you: why does the way of the wicked prosper? why are all they at ease who deal very treacherously?