The lion tore apart as much prey as his cubs needed ¹  and strangled prey to provide food ²  for his lionesses; he filled ³  his lairs with prey and his dens with torn flesh.

For the music director; according to the al-tashcheth style; ²  a prayer ³  of David, written when he fled from Saul into the cave. ⁴  Have mercy on me, O God! Have mercy on me! For in you I have taken shelter. ⁵  In the shadow of your wings ⁶  I take shelter until trouble passes.

At this very moment he is hiding out in one of the caves or in some other similar place. If it should turn out that he attacks our troops first, ¹  whoever hears about it will say, ‘Absalom’s army has been slaughtered!’

Go up into the rocky cliffs, hide in the ground. Get away from the dreadful judgment of the Lord, ¹  from his royal splendor!

So ¹  Pilate ²  decided ³  that their demand should be granted.

Three thousand men of Judah went down to the cave in the cliff of Etam and said to Samson, “Do you not know that the Philistines rule over us? Why have you done this to us?” He said to them, “I have only done to them what they have done to me.”

(24:1) ¹  Then David went up from there and stayed in the strongholds of En Gedi.

David was in the stronghold at the time, while a Philistine garrison was in Bethlehem. ¹ 

David was in the stronghold at the time, while a Philistine garrison was in Bethlehem. ¹ 

Have you gone to the springs that fill the sea, ¹  or walked about in the recesses of the deep?

when they crouch in their dens, when they wait in ambush in the thicket?

foreigners lose their courage; ¹  they shake with fear ²  as they leave ³  their strongholds. ⁴ 

Blessings ¹  are on the head of the righteous, but the speech ²  of the wicked conceals ³  violence. ⁴ 

Turn and flee! Take up refuge in remote places, ¹  you people who live in Dedan. ²  For I will bring disaster on the descendants of Esau. I have decided it is time for me to punish them. ³ 

to the south; ¹  all the Canaanite territory, ²  from Arah ³  in the region of Sidon ⁴  to Aphek, as far as Amorite territory;

All the leaders and people said to him, “Do not give in or agree to his demands.” ¹ 

He reveals the deep things of darkness, and brings deep shadows ¹  into the light.

The depths of the earth are in his hand, ¹  and the mountain peaks belong to him.

The teaching ¹  of the righteous is a fountain of life, ²  but the speech ³  of the wicked conceals ⁴  violence. ⁵ 

Because of laziness the roof ¹  caves in, and because of idle hands ²  the house leaks.