LORD, remember David and all the hardships he endured,

耶和华啊，求你记念大卫所受的一切苦难！

耶和华啊，求你记念大卫，记念他所受的一切苦难！

耶和华啊，求你记念大卫，记念他所受的一切苦难！

耶和华啊，求你顾念大卫和他所受的一切苦难。

耶和华啊！求你记念大卫，记念他的一切苦难。（本节在《马索拉文本》包括细字标题）

耶和华啊，求你因大卫的缘故，记住他所受的一切苦待！

耶和華啊，求你記念大衛所受的一切苦難！

耶和華啊，求你記念大衛，記念他所受的一切苦難！

耶和華啊，求你記念大衛，記念他所受的一切苦難！

耶和華啊，求你顧念大衛和他所受的一切苦難。

耶和華啊！求你記念大衛，記念他的一切苦難。（本節在《馬索拉文本》包括細字標題）

永恆主啊，懷念着大衛哦！懷念他所受的一切辛苦；

耶和華啊，求你因大衛的緣故，記住他所受的一切苦待！

耶和華歟、大衛之難、尚其記憶兮、

耶和華兮、維彼大闢、屢遭患難、望爾不忘兮、

求主記念大衛所受之一切辛苦、

憶昔大維。勞心焦思。悃悃款款。主其念之。

Lord, remember David and all his self- denial.

Lord, remember David and all the times he didn’t do what he wanted.

Remember, O Lord, in David’s favor, all the hardships he endured,

Lord, remember David and all that he suffered.

Remember, Lord, in David’s behalf, All his affliction;

Lord, remember David And all his afflictions;

Jehovah, remember for David All his affliction;

Lord, remember David and all the hardships he endured,

A Song of degrees. LORD, remember David,[ and] all his afflictions:

O LORD, for David’s sake remember all his strenuous effort,

Yahweh, remember David and all his affliction,

I lift my eyes toward the mountains. Where will my help come from?

In my distress I called to the LORD, and he answered me.

God remembered Noah, as well as all the wildlife and all the livestock that were with him in the ark. God caused a wind to pass over the earth, and the water began to subside.

When the LORD restored the fortunes of Zion, we were like those who dream.

Since my youth they have often attacked me— let Israel say—

I lift my eyes to you, the one enthroned in heaven.

Unless the LORD builds a house, its builders labor over it in vain; unless the LORD watches over a city, the watchman stays alert in vain.

How happy is everyone who fears the LORD, who walks in his ways!

If the LORD had not been on our side— let Israel say—

Remember, LORD, your compassion and your faithful love, for they have existed from antiquity.Do not remember the sins of my youth or my acts of rebellion; in keeping with your faithful love, remember me because of your goodness, LORD.

Those who trust in the LORD are like Mount Zion. It cannot be shaken; it remains forever.

After this, Absalom got himself a chariot, horses, and fifty men to run before him.He would get up early and stand beside the road leading to the city gate. Whenever anyone had a grievance to bring before the king for settlement, Absalom called out to him and asked,“ What city are you from?” If he replied,“ Your servant is from one of the tribes of Israel,”Absalom said to him,“ Look, your claims are good and right, but the king does not have anyone to listen to you.”He added,“ If only someone would appoint me judge in the land. Then anyone who had a grievance or dispute could come to me, and I would make sure he received justice.”When a person approached to pay homage to him, Absalom reached out his hand, took hold of him, and kissed him.Absalom did this to all the Israelites who came to the king for a settlement. So Absalom stole the hearts of the men of Israel.When four years had passed, Absalom said to the king,“ Please let me go to Hebron to fulfill a vow I made to the LORD.For your servant made a vow when I lived in Geshur of Aram, saying,‘ If the LORD really brings me back to Jerusalem, I will worship the LORD in Hebron.’”“ Go in peace,” the king said to him. So he went to Hebron.Then Absalom sent agents throughout the tribes of Israel with this message:“ When you hear the sound of the ram’s horn, you are to say,‘ Absalom has become king in Hebron!’”Two hundred men from Jerusalem went with Absalom. They had been invited and were going innocently, for they did not know the whole situation.While he was offering the sacrifices, Absalom sent for David’s adviser Ahithophel the Gilonite, from his city of Giloh. So the conspiracy grew strong, and the people supporting Absalom continued to increase.Then an informer came to David and reported,“ The hearts of the men of Israel are with Absalom.”David said to all the servants with him in Jerusalem,“ Get up. We have to flee, or we will not escape from Absalom! Leave quickly, or he will overtake us quickly, heap disaster on us, and strike the city with the edge of the sword.”The king’s servants said to the king,“ Whatever my lord the king decides, we are your servants.”Then the king set out, and his entire household followed him. But he left behind ten concubines to take care of the palace.So the king set out, and all the people followed him. They stopped at the last housewhile all his servants marched past him. Then all the Cherethites, the Pelethites, and the people of Gath— six hundred men who came with him from there— marched past the king.The king said to Ittai of Gath,“ Why are you also going with us? Go back and stay with the new king since you’re both a foreigner and an exile from your homeland.Besides, you only arrived yesterday; should I make you wander around with us today while I go wherever I can? Go back and take your brothers with you. May the LORD show you kindness and faithfulness.”

LORD, remember what has happened to us. Look, and see our disgrace!

Out of the depths I call to you, LORD!

Remember my affliction and my homelessness, the wormwood and the poison.

God heard their groaning, and God remembered his covenant with Abraham, with Isaac, and with Jacob.

LORD, my heart is not proud; my eyes are not haughty. I do not get involved with things too great or too wondrous for me.

When David had finished speaking with Saul, Jonathan was bound to David in close friendship, and loved him as much as he loved himself.Saul kept David with him from that day on and did not let him return to his father’s house.Jonathan made a covenant with David because he loved him as much as himself.Then Jonathan removed the robe he was wearing and gave it to David, along with his military tunic, his sword, his bow, and his belt.David marched out with the army and was successful in everything Saul sent him to do. Saul put him in command of the fighting men, which pleased all the people and Saul’s servants as well.As the troops were coming back, when David was returning from killing the Philistine, the women came out from all the cities of Israel to meet King Saul, singing and dancing with tambourines, with shouts of joy, and with three-stringed instruments.As they danced, the women sang: Saul has killed his thousands, but David his tens of thousands.Saul was furious and resented this song.“ They credited tens of thousands to David,” he complained,“ but they only credited me with thousands. What more can he have but the kingdom?”So Saul watched David jealously from that day forward.The next day an evil spirit sent from God came powerfully on Saul, and he began to rave inside the palace. David was playing the lyre as usual, but Saul was holding a spear,and he threw it, thinking,“ I’ll pin David to the wall.” But David got away from him twice.Saul was afraid of David, because the LORD was with David but had left Saul.Therefore, Saul sent David away from him and made him commander over a thousand men. David led the troopsand continued to be successful in all his activities because the LORD was with him.When Saul observed that David was very successful, he dreaded him.But all Israel and Judah loved David because he was leading their troops.Saul told David,“ Here is my oldest daughter Merab. I’ll give her to you as a wife if you will be a warrior for me and fight the LORD’s battles.” But Saul was thinking,“ I don’t need to raise a hand against him; let the hand of the Philistines be against him.”Then David responded,“ Who am I, and what is my family or my father’s clan in Israel that I should become the king’s son-in-law?”When it was time to give Saul’s daughter Merab to David, she was given to Adriel the Meholathite as a wife.Now Saul’s daughter Michal loved David, and when it was reported to Saul, it pleased him.“ I’ll give her to him,” Saul thought.“ She’ll be a trap for him, and the hand of the Philistines will be against him.” So Saul said to David a second time,“ You can now be my son-in-law.”Saul then ordered his servants,“ Speak to David in private and tell him,‘ Look, the king is pleased with you, and all his servants love you. Therefore, you should become the king’s son-in-law.’”Saul’s servants reported these words directly to David, but he replied,“ Is it trivial in your sight to become the king’s son-in-law? I am a poor commoner.”The servants reported back to Saul,“ These are the words David spoke.”Then Saul replied,“ Say this to David:‘ The king desires no other bride-price except a hundred Philistine foreskins, to take revenge on his enemies.’” Actually, Saul intended to cause David’s death at the hands of the Philistines.When the servants reported these terms to David, he was pleased to become the king’s son-in-law. Before the wedding day arrived,David and his men went out and killed two hundred Philistines. He brought their foreskins and presented them as full payment to the king to become his son-in-law. Then Saul gave his daughter Michal to David as his wife.Saul realized that the LORD was with David and that his daughter Michal loved him,and he became even more afraid of David. As a result, Saul was David’s enemy from then on.Every time the Philistine commanders came out to fight, David was more successful than all of Saul’s officers. So his name became well known.

I rejoiced with those who said to me,“ Let’s go to the house of the LORD.”