Yahweh, remember David and all his affliction,

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.

LORD, remember David and all the hardships he endured,

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,

I will lift up my eyes to the hills. Where does my help come from?

In my distress, I cried to Yahweh. He answered me.

God remembered Noah, all the animals, and all the livestock that were with him in the ship; and God made a wind to pass over the earth. The waters subsided.

When Yahweh brought back those who returned to Zion, we were like those who dream.

Many times they have afflicted me from my youth up. Let Israel now say,

I lift up my eyes to you, you who sit in the heavens.

Unless Yahweh builds the house, they who build it labor in vain. Unless Yahweh watches over the city, the watchman guards it in vain.

Blessed is everyone who fears Yahweh, who walks in his ways.

If it had not been Yahweh who was on our side, let Israel now say,

Yahweh, remember your tender mercies and your loving kindness, for they are from old times.Don’t remember the sins of my youth, nor my transgressions. Remember me according to your loving kindness, for your goodness’ sake, Yahweh.

Those who trust in Yahweh are as Mount Zion, which can’t be moved, but remains forever.

After this, Absalom prepared a chariot and horses for himself, and fifty men to run before him.Absalom rose up early, and stood beside the way of the gate. When any man had a suit which should come to the king for judgment, then Absalom called to him, and said,“ What city are you from?” He said,“ Your servant is of one of the tribes of Israel.”Absalom said to him,“ Behold, your matters are good and right; but there is no man deputized by the king to hear you.”Absalom said moreover,“ Oh that I were made judge in the land, that every man who has any suit or cause might come to me, and I would do him justice!”It was so, that when any man came near to bow down to him, he stretched out his hand, and took hold of him, and kissed him.Absalom did this sort of thing to all Israel who came to the king for judgment. So Absalom stole the hearts of the men of Israel.At the end of forty years, Absalom said to the king,“ Please let me go and pay my vow, which I have vowed to Yahweh, in Hebron.For your servant vowed a vow while I stayed at Geshur in Syria, saying,‘ If Yahweh shall indeed bring me again to Jerusalem, then I will serve Yahweh.’”The king said to him,“ Go in peace.” So he arose, and went to Hebron.But Absalom sent spies throughout all the tribes of Israel, saying,“ As soon as you hear the sound of the trumpet, then you shall say,‘ Absalom is king in Hebron!’”Two hundred men went with Absalom out of Jerusalem, who were invited, and went in their simplicity; and they didn’t know anything.Absalom sent for Ahithophel the Gilonite, David’s counselor, from his city, even from Giloh, while he was offering the sacrifices. The conspiracy was strong; for the people increased continually with Absalom.A messenger came to David, saying,“ The hearts of the men of Israel are after Absalom.”David said to all his servants who were with him at Jerusalem,“ Arise! Let’s flee; or else none of us will escape from Absalom. Hurry to depart, lest he overtake us quickly, and bring down evil on us, and strike the city with the edge of the sword.”The king’s servants said to the king,“ Behold, your servants are ready to do whatever my lord the king chooses.”The king went out, and all his household after him. The king left ten women, who were concubines, to keep the house.The king went out, and all the people after him; and they stayed in Beth Merhak.All his servants passed on beside him; and all the Cherethites, and all the Pelethites, and all the Gittites, six hundred men who came after him from Gath, passed on before the king.Then the king said to Ittai the Gittite,“ Why do you also go with us? Return, and stay with the king; for you are a foreigner, and also an exile. Return to your own place.Whereas you came but yesterday, should I today make you go up and down with us, since I go where I may? Return, and take back your brothers. Mercy and truth be with you.”

Remember, Yahweh, what has come on us. Look, and see our reproach.

Out of the depths I have cried to you, Yahweh.

Remember my affliction and my misery, the wormwood and the bitterness.

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

Yahweh, my heart isn’t arrogant, nor my eyes lofty; nor do I concern myself with great matters, or things too wonderful for me.

When he had finished speaking to Saul, the soul of Jonathan was knit with the soul of David, and Jonathan loved him as his own soul.Saul took him that day, and wouldn’t let him go home to his father’s house any more.Then Jonathan and David made a covenant, because he loved him as his own soul.Jonathan stripped himself of the robe that was on him, and gave it to David, and his clothing, even including his sword, his bow, and his sash.David went out wherever Saul sent him, and behaved himself wisely; and Saul set him over the men of war. It was good in the sight of all the people, and also in the sight of Saul’s servants.As they came, when David returned from the slaughter of the Philistine, the women came out of all the cities of Israel, singing and dancing, to meet king Saul, with tambourines, with joy, and with instruments of music.The women sang to one another as they played, and said,“ Saul has slain his thousands, and David his ten thousands.”Saul was very angry, and this saying displeased him. He said,“ They have creditd David with ten thousands, and they have only credited me with thousands. What can he have more but the kingdom?”Saul watched David from that day and forward.On the next day, an evil spirit from God came mightily on Saul, and he prophesied in the middle of the house. David played with his hand, as he did day by day. Saul had his spear in his hand;and Saul threw the spear, for he said,“ I will pin David to the wall!” David escaped from his presence twice.Saul was afraid of David, because Yahweh was with him, and had departed from Saul.Therefore Saul removed him from his presence, and made him his captain over a thousand; and he went out and came in before the people.David behaved himself wisely in all his ways; and Yahweh was with him.When Saul saw that he behaved himself very wisely, he stood in awe of him.But all Israel and Judah loved David; for he went out and came in before them.Saul said to David,“ Behold, my elder daughter Merab, I will give her to you as wife. Only be valiant for me, and fight Yahweh’s battles.” For Saul said,“ Don’t let my hand be on him, but let the hand of the Philistines be on him.”David said to Saul,“ Who am I, and what is my life, or my father’s family in Israel, that I should be son- in- law to the king?”But at the time when Merab, Saul’s daughter, should have been given to David, she was given to Adriel the Meholathite as wife.Michal, Saul’s daughter, loved David; and they told Saul, and the thing pleased him.Saul said, I will give her to him, that she may be a snare to him, and that the hand of the Philistines may be against him. Therefore Saul said to David,“ You shall today be my son- in- law a second time.”Saul commanded his servants,“ Talk with David secretly, and say,‘ Behold, the king has delight in you, and all his servants love you. Now therefore be the king’s son- in- law.’”Saul’s servants spoke those words in the ears of David. David said,“ Does it seem to you a light thing to be the king’s son- in- law, since I am a poor man, and little known?”The servants of Saul told him, saying,“ David spoke like this.”Saul said,“ Tell David,‘ The king desires no dowry except one hundred foreskins of the Philistines, to be avenged of the king’s enemies.’” Now Saul thought he would make David fall by the hand of the Philistines.When his servants told David these words, it pleased David well to be the king’s son- in- law. Before the deadline,David arose and went, he and his men, and killed two hundred men of the Philistines. Then David brought their foreskins, and they gave them in full number to the king, that he might be the king’s son- in- law. Then Saul gave him Michal his daughter as wife.Saul saw and knew that Yahweh was with David; and Michal, Saul’s daughter, loved him.Saul was even more afraid of David; and Saul was David’s enemy continually.Then the princes of the Philistines went out; and as often as they went out, David behaved himself more wisely than all the servants of Saul, so that his name was highly esteemed.

I was glad when they said to me,“ Let’s go to Yahweh’s house!”