As God liveth, who hath taken away my judgment; and the Almighty, who hath vexed my soul;

And David was greatly distressed; for the people spake of stoning him, because the soul of all the people was grieved, every man for his sons and for his daughters: but David encouraged himself in the LORD his God.

For, said Hushai, thou knowest thy father and his men, that they be mighty men, and they be chafed in their minds, as a bear robbed of her whelps in the field: and thy father is a man of war, and will not lodge with the people.

Let darkness and the shadow of death stain it; let a cloud dwell upon it; let the blackness of the day terrify it.