Listen to my prayer, O God, and despise not my supplication.
They have all gone astray; together they have become useless. There is no one who does good; there is not even one.
When I was not humble in thought, then I lifted up my soul. Like one who has been weaned from his mother, so was I recompensed in my soul.
Send forth your hand from on high: rescue me, and free me from many waters, from the hand of the sons of foreigners.
Then the Ziphites ascended to Saul at Gibeah, saying: "Behold, is not David hidden with us in very secure places in the woods on the hill of Hachilah, which is to the right of the desert?
And the Ziphites went to Saul at Gibeah, saying: "Behold, David is hidden on the hill of Hachilah, which is opposite the wilderness."