Yahweh, how my adversaries have increased! Many are those who rise up against me.

耶和华啊，我的敌人何其加增；有许多人起来攻击我。

耶和华啊，我的敌人何其增多！许多人起来攻击我。

耶和华啊，我的敌人何其增多！许多人起来攻击我。

耶和华啊，我的敌人何其多！反对我的人何其多！

耶和华啊！我的仇敌竟然这么多。起来攻击我的竟然那么多。

耶和华啊，我的敌人何其多，许多人起来攻击我！

耶和華啊，我的敵人何其加增；有許多人起來攻擊我。

耶和華啊，我的敵人何其增多！許多人起來攻擊我。

耶和華啊，我的敵人何其增多！許多人起來攻擊我。

耶和華啊，我的敵人何其多！反對我的人何其多！

耶和華啊！我的仇敵竟然這麼多。起來攻擊我的竟然那麼多。

永恆主啊，我的敵人何其多呀！有許多人起來攻擊我。

耶和華啊，我的敵人何其多，許多人起來攻擊我！

耶和華歟、敵我者何其繁、攻我者眾兮、

耶和華兮、苦我者多、攻我者眾、

主歟、我之仇人極多、攻擊我者亦甚眾、

Lord, how many are my foes! How many rise up against me!

Lord, I have so many enemies! So many people are rising up against me!

O Lord, how many are my foes! Many are rising against me;

O Lord, I have so many enemies; so many are against me.

LORD, how my foes increase! There are many who attack me.

Lord, how my enemies have increased! Many are rising up against me.

Lord, how they have increased who trouble me! Many are they who rise up against me.

Jehovah, how are mine adversaries increased! Many are they that rise up against me.

Lord, how my foes increase! There are many who attack me.

LORD, how are they increased that trouble me! many[ are] they that rise up against me.

LORD, how numerous are my enemies! Many attack me.

Show your marvelous loving kindness, you who save those who take refuge by your right hand from their enemies.

But I counsel that all Israel be gathered together to you, from Dan even to Beersheba, as the sand that is by the sea for multitude; and that you go to battle in your own person.So we will come on him in some place where he will be found, and we will light on him as the dew falls on the ground, then we will not leave so much as one of him and of all the men who are with him.Moreover, if he has gone into a city, then all Israel will bring ropes to that city, and we will draw it into the river, until there isn’t one small stone found there.”

“ Brother will deliver up brother to death, and the father his child. Children will rise up against parents, and cause them to be put to death.

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.

Absalom and all the people, the men of Israel, came to Jerusalem, and Ahithophel with him.

All the people answered,“ May his blood be on us, and on our children!”