But I was like a gentle lamb that is led to the slaughter; and I knew not that they had devised devices against me, {\i saying}, Let us destroy the tree with the fruit thereof, and let us cut him off from the land of the living, that his name may be no more remembered.
In the covert of thy presence wilt thou hide them from the plottings of man:\par\tab Thou wilt keep them secretly in a pavilion from the strife of tongues.
For in the day of trouble he will keep me secretly in his pavilion:\par\tab In the covert of his tabernacle will he hide me;\par\tab He will lift me up upon a rock.
Yet, Jehovah, thou knowest all their counsel against me to slay me; forgive not their iniquity, neither blot out their sin from thy sight; but let them be overthrown before thee; deal thou with them in the time of thine anger.\par
{\b A Psalm of David, when he fled from Absalom his son.}\par\par\tab Jehovah, how are mine adversaries increased!\par\tab Many are they that rise up against me.
And a man shall be as a hiding-place from the wind, and a covert from the tempest, as streams of water in a dry place, as the shade of a great rock in a weary land.