Give sincere homage to the Son, lest he be angry, and you perish in the way, for his wrath will soon be kindled. Blessed are all those who take refuge in him. A Psalm by David, when he fled from Absalom his son.

{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.

I am weary with my groaning; {I flood} my bed every night. With my tears {I drench} my couch.

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

In the Lord put I my faith; how will you say to my soul, Go in flight like a bird to the mountain?

And he went in flight through the air, seated on a storm-cloud: going quickly on the wings of the wind.

By you their backs are turned in flight, so that my haters are cut off.

For you will {turn them to flight}; you will aim [arrows] on your bowstrings at their faces.

The LORD sitteth upon the flood; yea, the LORD sitteth King for ever.

I was a reproach among all mine enemies, but especially among my neighbours, and a fear to mine acquaintance: they that did see me without fled from me.

And I said in my hasty flight; I was cut off from before thine eyes: yet thou heardest the voice of my supplications in my crying to thee.

Therefore let all [the] faithful pray to you at [the] time [for] finding [you]. Surely at [the] flood of many waters they will not reach him.

Let them be like dust from the grain before the wind; let the angel of the Lord send them in flight.

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

For my iniquities have gone over my head [like the waves of a flood];
As a heavy burden they weigh too much for me.

You have made us like sheep which are taken for meat; we are put to flight among the nations.

The rivers of the flood thereof shall make glad the city of God, the holy dwelling of the most highest.

They saw, so they marvelled; they were troubled, they fled in consternation:

I will not take a bullock from thy house, from thy fold, he goats.

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

Thou wouldst sit down - Against thine own brother, wouldst thou speak, Against thine own mother's son, wouldst thou expose a fault: -

And I said, If only I had wings like a dove! for then I would go in flight from here and be at rest.

Lo! I would take a distant flight, I would tarry in the wilderness. Selah.

Whensoever I call upon thee, then shall mine enemies be put to flight; whereby I know that thou art my God.

For you have delivered my soul from death, and prevented my feet from falling, that I may walk before God in the light of the living. For the Chief Musician. To the tune of "Do Not Destroy." A poem by David, when he fled from Saul, in the cave.

{To the chief Musician, Altaschith, Michtam of David, when he fled from Saul in the cave.} Be merciful unto me, O God, be merciful unto me: for my soul trusteth in thee: yea, in the shadow of thy wings will I make my refuge, until these calamities be overpast.

For lo, they lie in waiting for my soul; the mighty men are gathered together against me, without any offense or fault of me, O LORD.

They run and prepare themselves without my fault: awake to help me, and behold.

Give a safe place to those who have fear of you, where they may go in flight from before the bow. (Selah.)

Thou hadst given - to them that revere thee - a banner, to float aloft, Because of thy faithfulness. Selah.

When they were to have ruined another, their tongue smote themselves, All who observe them take flight.

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 water its furrows abundantly,
You smooth its ridges;
You soften it with showers,
You bless its growth.

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

Let God be seen, and let his haters be put to flight; let those who are against him be turned back before him.

Kings of armies quickly go in flight: and the women in the houses make a division of their goods.

When the Most High put the kings to flight, it was as white as snow in Salmon.

I sink in deep mire, where there is no standing; I am come into the depths of waters, and the flood overfloweth me.

Let not the flood of waters overflow me, neither let the deep swallow me up; and let not the pit shut its mouth upon me.

His dominion shall be from the one sea to the other, and from the flood unto the world's end.

From extortion, and, violence, he Redeemeth their life, And precious is their flood in his sight.

May there be plenty of grain in the land;
may it wave on the tops of the mountains.
May its crops be like Lebanon.
May people flourish in the cities
like the grass of the field.

When my heart was embittered and I felt stabbed in my kidneys,

Thou didst cleave the fountain and the flood: thou driedst up mighty rivers.

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

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

He killed their vines with hail
and their sycamore fig trees with a flood.

He drove His enemies backward;
He subjected them to lasting shame and dishonor.

And render to our neighbors seven-fold into their bosom their reproach, with which they have reproached thee, O Lord.

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

As well the singers as the flute-players are saying , - All my springs, are in thee!

They have surrounded me like flood waters all day long;
They have completely encompassed me.

Rahab was crushed by you like one wounded to death; with your strong arm you put to flight all your haters.

Thou carriest them away as with a flood; they are as a sleep: in the morning they are like grass which groweth up.

You will have no fear of the evil things of the night, or of the arrow in flight by day,

Let the field be joyful, and all that is therein: 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 flourisheth.

At thy rebuke they fled; at the voice of thy thunder they hasted away.

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

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

What's with you, O sea, [that] you fled? O Jordan, [that] you turned back?

I have seen traitors, and felt loathing, Because, thy word, they kept not.

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

Lo, we heard of it in Ephrathah: We found it in the field of the wood.

Where may I go from your spirit? how may I go in flight from you?

Look on my right, and see; for there is no one who is concerned for me. Refuge has fled from me. No one cares for my soul.

Praise him with tambourine and dancing; praise him with strings and flute.