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

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

The LORD sitteth upon the flood; yes, the LORD sitteth king for ever.

I was a reproach among all my enemies, but especially among my neighbors, and a fear to my acquaintance: they that saw me without fled from me.

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

To the chief Musician, Al-taschith, Michtam of David, when he fled from Saul in the cave. Be merciful to me, O God, be merciful to me: for my soul trusteth in thee: yes, in the shadow of thy wings will I make my refuge, until these calamities are overpast.

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

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

Kings of armies fled apace: and she that tarried at home divided the spoil.

Let not the water-flood overflow me, neither let the deep swallow me up, and let not the pit shut her mouth upon me.

Thou didst cleave the fountain and the flood: thou didst dry 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 wrought his signs in Egypt, and his wonders in the field of Zoan:

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

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

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

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

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.