LORD, how my adversaries are increased! Many are those who rise up against me.
Show thy marvelous loving kindness, O thou who saves by thy right hand those who take refuge from those who rise up.
And Absalom, and all the people, the men of Israel, came to Jerusalem, and Ahithophel with him.
And having answered, all the people said, His blood be on us, and on our children.
And a brother will deliver up a brother to death, and a father a child. And children will rise up against parents, and condemn them to death.
And all these kings met together. And they came and encamped together at the waters of Merom, to fight with Israel.