He will surely give me shelter in the day of danger; he will hide me in his home; he will place me on an inaccessible rocky summit.

You hide them with you, where they are safe from the attacks of men; you conceal them in a shelter, where they are safe from slanderous attacks.

They stalk and lurk; they watch my every step, as they prepare to take my life.

If they say, “Come with us! We will lie in wait to shed blood; we will ambush an innocent person capriciously.

I will turn my face away from them and they will desecrate my treasured place. Vandals will enter it and desecrate it.

But the woman hid the two men and replied, “Yes, these men were clients of mine, but I didn’t know where they came from.

How great is your favor, which you store up for your loyal followers! In plain sight of everyone you bestow it on those who take shelter in you.

The mandrakes send out their fragrance; over our door is every delicacy, both new and old, which I have stored up for you, my lover.

For I see everything they do. Their wicked ways are not hidden from me. Their sin is not hidden away where I cannot see it.

But when she was no longer able to hide him, she took a papyrus basket for him and sealed it with bitumen and pitch. She put the child in it and set it among the reeds along the edge of the Nile.