In my distress I called upon the LORD, and cried unto my God: he heard my voice out of his temple, and my cry came before him, even into his ears.

He bowed the heavens also, and came down: and darkness was under his feet.

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

[To the Chief Musician. A Psalm of David when Nathan the prophet came unto him, after he had gone in to Bathsheba.] Have mercy upon me, O God, according to your lovingkindness: according unto the multitude of your tender mercies blot out my transgressions.

[To the Chief Musician, a maschil. A Psalm of David, when Doeg the Edomite came and told Saul, and said unto him, David is come to the house of Ahimelech.] Why boast you yourself in evil, O mighty man? the goodness of God endures continually.

[To the Chief Musician on neginoth. A maschil, a Psalm of David, when the Ziphites came and said to Saul, Does not David hide himself with us?] Save me, O God, by your name, and judge me by your strength.

Therefore the LORD heard this, and was angry: so a fire was kindled against Jacob, and anger also came up against Israel;

The wrath of God came upon them, and slew the strongest of them, and struck down the chosen men of Israel.

They came round about me daily like water; they compassed me about together.

Until the time that his word came: the word of the LORD tested him.

Israel also came into Egypt; and Jacob sojourned in the land of Ham.

He spoke, and there came swarms of flies, and gnats in all their country.

He spoke, and the locusts came, and young locusts, and that without number,