Kiss the son before he becomes angry, and you die where you stand. Indeed, his wrath can flare up quickly. How blessed are those who take refuge in him. A Davidic Psalm, when he fled from his son Absalom.

Sheep and cattle all of them, wild creatures of the field,

The LORD sat enthroned over the flood, and the LORD sits as king forever.

Therefore every godly person should pray to you at such a time. Surely a flood of great waters will not reach him.

Though he stumbles, he will not fall down flat, for the LORD will hold up his hand.

I know all the birds in the mountains; indeed, everything that moves in the field is mine.

For you have delivered me from death and my feet from stumbling, so that I may walk before God in the light of the living! To the Director: A special Davidic psalm to the tune of "Do Not Destroy," when he fled from Saul into a cave.

Without any fault on my part, they rush together and prepare themselves. Get up! Come help me! Pay attention!

The righteous rejoiced in the LORD, because they had fled to him for refuge. Let all the upright in heart exult. To the Director: A song. Lyrics by David.

You fill the furrows of the field with water so that their ridges overflow. You soften them with rain showers; their sprouts you have blessed.

I am sinking in deep mire, and there is no solid ground. I have come into deep water, and the flood overwhelms me.

Wild boars of the forest gnaw at it, and creatures of the field feed on it.

The field and all that is in it will rejoice; then all the trees of the forest will sing for joy

They give water for animals of the field to drink; the wild donkeys quench their thirst.

The sea saw this and fled, the Jordan River ran backwards,

What happened to you, sea, that you fled? Jordan, that you ran backwards?

Then the flood waters would have overwhelmed us, the torrent would have flooded over us;