[A Psalm of David when he fled from Absalom his son.] LORD, how are they increased that trouble me! many are they that rise up against me.

All sheep and oxen, yea, and the beasts of the field;

The LORD sits upon the flood; yea, the LORD sits as King forever.

I was a reproach among all my enemies, but especially among my neighbors, and a horror to my acquaintance: they that did see me outside fled from me.

I know all the fowls of the mountains: and the wild beasts of the field are mine.

[To the Chief Musician, altaschith. A michtam of David, when he fled from Saul into the cave.] Be merciful unto me, O God, be merciful unto me: for my soul trusts in you: yea, in the shadow of your wings will I make my refuge, until these calamities have passed.

They run and prepare themselves apart from my fault: awake to help me, and behold.

He turned the sea into dry land: they went through the flood on foot: there did we rejoice in him.

You did break open the fountain and the flood: you dried up mighty rivers.

Marvelous things did he in the sight of their fathers, in the land of Egypt, in the field of Zoan.

How he had worked his signs in Egypt, and his wonders in the field of Zoan:

The boar out of the wood does waste it, and the wild beast of the field does devour it.

You carry them away as with a flood; they are like a sleep: in the morning they are like grass which grows up.

Let the field be joyful, and all that is in it: then shall all the trees of the wood rejoice

As for man, his days are as grass: as a flower of the field, so he flourishes.

At your rebuke they fled; at the voice of your thunder they hastened away.

They give drink to every beast of the field: the wild donkeys quench their thirst.

The sea saw it, and fled: Jordan was driven back.

What ailed you, O you sea, that you fled? you Jordan, that you were driven back?