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

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

Display the wonders of your faithful love, Savior of all who seek refuge from those who rebel against your right hand.

Instead, I advise that all Israel from Dan to Beer-sheba— as numerous as the sand by the sea— be gathered to you and that you personally go into battle.Then we will attack David wherever we find him, and we will descend on him like dew on the ground. Not even one will be left— neither he nor any of the men with him.If he retreats to some city, all Israel will bring ropes to that city, and we will drag its stones into the valley until not even a pebble can be found there.”

“ Brother will betray brother to death, and a father his child. Children will rise up against parents and have them put to death.

After this, Absalom got himself a chariot, horses, and fifty men to run before him.He would get up early and stand beside the road leading to the city gate. Whenever anyone had a grievance to bring before the king for settlement, Absalom called out to him and asked,“ What city are you from?” If he replied,“ Your servant is from one of the tribes of Israel,”Absalom said to him,“ Look, your claims are good and right, but the king does not have anyone to listen to you.”He added,“ If only someone would appoint me judge in the land. Then anyone who had a grievance or dispute could come to me, and I would make sure he received justice.”When a person approached to pay homage to him, Absalom reached out his hand, took hold of him, and kissed him.Absalom did this to all the Israelites who came to the king for a settlement. So Absalom stole the hearts of the men of Israel.When four years had passed, Absalom said to the king,“ Please let me go to Hebron to fulfill a vow I made to the LORD.For your servant made a vow when I lived in Geshur of Aram, saying,‘ If the LORD really brings me back to Jerusalem, I will worship the LORD in Hebron.’”“ Go in peace,” the king said to him. So he went to Hebron.Then Absalom sent agents throughout the tribes of Israel with this message:“ When you hear the sound of the ram’s horn, you are to say,‘ Absalom has become king in Hebron!’”Two hundred men from Jerusalem went with Absalom. They had been invited and were going innocently, for they did not know the whole situation.While he was offering the sacrifices, Absalom sent for David’s adviser Ahithophel the Gilonite, from his city of Giloh. So the conspiracy grew strong, and the people supporting Absalom continued to increase.Then an informer came to David and reported,“ The hearts of the men of Israel are with Absalom.”David said to all the servants with him in Jerusalem,“ Get up. We have to flee, or we will not escape from Absalom! Leave quickly, or he will overtake us quickly, heap disaster on us, and strike the city with the edge of the sword.”The king’s servants said to the king,“ Whatever my lord the king decides, we are your servants.”Then the king set out, and his entire household followed him. But he left behind ten concubines to take care of the palace.So the king set out, and all the people followed him. They stopped at the last housewhile all his servants marched past him. Then all the Cherethites, the Pelethites, and the people of Gath— six hundred men who came with him from there— marched past the king.

Now Absalom and all the Israelites came to Jerusalem. Ahithophel was also with him.

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