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The LORD thundered from heaven, and the most High uttered his voice.

Through the brightness before him were coals of fire kindled.

And he made darkness pavilions round about him, dark waters, and thick clouds of the skies.

And he rode upon a cherub, and did fly: and he was seen upon the wings of the wind.

He bowed the heavens also, and came down; and darkness was under his feet.

There went up a smoke out of his nostrils, and fire out of his mouth devoured: coals were kindled by it.

Then the earth shook and trembled; the foundations of heaven moved and shook, because he was wroth.

In my distress I called upon the LORD, and cried to my God: and he did hear my voice out of his temple, and my cry did enter into his ears.

The sorrows of hell compassed me about; the snares of death prevented me;

When the waves of death compassed me, the floods of ungodly men made me afraid;

I will call on the LORD, who is worthy to be praised: so shall I be saved from mine enemies.

The God of my rock; in him will I trust: he is my shield, and the horn of my salvation, my high tower, and my refuge, my saviour; thou savest me from violence.

And he said, The LORD is my rock, and my fortress, and my deliverer;

And David spake unto the LORD the words of this song in the day that the LORD had delivered him out of the hand of all his enemies, and out of the hand of Saul:

Abide thou with me, fear not: for he that seeketh my life seeketh thy life: but with me thou shalt be in safeguard.

And David said unto Abiathar, I knew it that day, when Doeg the Edomite was there, that he would surely tell Saul: I have occasioned the death of all the persons of thy father"s house.

And Abiathar shewed David that Saul had slain the LORD"s priests.

And one of the sons of Ahimelech the son of Ahitub, named Abiathar, escaped, and fled after David.

And Nob, the city of the priests, smote he with the edge of the sword, both men and women, children and sucklings, and oxen, and asses, and sheep, with the edge of the sword.

And the king said to Doeg, Turn thou, and fall upon the priests. And Doeg the Edomite turned, and he fell upon the priests, and slew on that day fourscore and five persons that did wear a linen ephod.

And the king said unto the footmen that stood about him, Turn, and slay the priests of the LORD: because their hand also is with David, and because they knew when he fled, and did not shew it to me. But the servants of the king would not put forth their hand to fall upon the priests of the LORD.

And the king said, Thou shalt surely die, Ahimelech, thou, and all thy father"s house.

Did I then begin to enquire of God for him? be it far from me: let not the king impute any thing unto his servant, nor to all the house of my father: for thy servant knew nothing of all this, less or more.

Then Ahimelech answered the king, and said, And who is so faithful among all thy servants as David, which is the king"s son in law, and goeth at thy bidding, and is honourable in thine house?

And Saul said unto him, Why have ye conspired against me, thou and the son of Jesse, in that thou hast given him bread, and a sword, and hast enquired of God for him, that he should rise against me, to lie in wait, as at this day?

And Saul said, Hear now, thou son of Ahitub. And he answered, Here I am, my lord.

Then the king sent to call Ahimelech the priest, the son of Ahitub, and all his father"s house, the priests that were in Nob: and they came all of them to the king.

And he enquired of the LORD for him, and gave him victuals, and gave him the sword of Goliath the Philistine.

Then answered Doeg the Edomite, which was set over the servants of Saul, and said, I saw the son of Jesse coming to Nob, to Ahimelech the son of Ahitub.

That all of you have conspired against me, and there is none that sheweth me that my son hath made a league with the son of Jesse, and there is none of you that is sorry for me, or sheweth unto me that my son hath stirred up my servant against me, to lie in wait, as at this day?