Those who are eager to do wrong draw near; they are far from your law.
Now send word quickly to David and warn him, “Don’t spend the night at the fords of the desert tonight. Instead, be sure you cross over, or else the king and everyone who is with him may be overwhelmed.”
So they say to God, ‘Turn away from us! We do not want to know your ways.
Yes, wild dogs surround me – a gang of evil men crowd around me; like a lion they pin my hands and feet.
When evil men attack me to devour my flesh, when my adversaries and enemies attack me, they stumble and fall.
For you hate instruction and reject my words.
“How long will you simpletons love naiveté? How long will mockers delight in mockery and fools hate knowledge?
Fearing the Lord is the beginning of moral knowledge, but fools despise wisdom and instruction.
The one who turns away his ear from hearing the law, even his prayer is an abomination.
We all growl like bears, we coo mournfully like doves; we wait for deliverance, but there is none, for salvation, but it is far from us.
Justice is driven back; godliness stands far off. Indeed, honesty stumbles in the city square and morality is not even able to enter.
Then Jonathan son of Saul left and went to David at Horesh. He encouraged him through God.