¹Now Saul spoke to Jonathan his son and to all his servants, that they should kill David; but Jonathan, Saul’s son, delighted greatly in David. ²So Jonathan told David, saying, “My father Saul seeks to kill you. Therefore please be on your guard until morning, and stay in a secret place and hide. ³And I will go out and stand beside my father in the field where you are, and I will speak with my father about you. Then what I observe, I will tell you.” ⁴Thus Jonathan spoke well of David to Saul his father, and said to him, “Let not the king sin against his servant, against David, because he has not sinned against you, and because his works have been very good toward you. ⁵For he took his life in his hands and killed the Philistine, and the Lᴏʀᴅ brought about a great deliverance for all Israel. You saw it and rejoiced. Why then will you sin against innocent blood, to kill David without a cause?” ⁶So Saul heeded the voice of Jonathan, and Saul swore, “As the Lᴏʀᴅ lives, he shall not be killed.” ⁷Then Jonathan called David, and Jonathan told him all these things. So Jonathan brought David to Saul, and he was in his presence as in times past. ⁸And there was war again; and David went out and fought with the Philistines, and struck them with a mighty blow, and they fled from him. ⁹Now the distressing spirit from the Lᴏʀᴅ came upon Saul as he sat in his house with his spear in his hand. And David was playing music with his hand. ¹⁰Then Saul sought to pin David to the wall with the spear, but he slipped away from Saul’s presence; and he drove the spear into the wall. So David fled and escaped that night. ¹¹Saul also sent messengers to David’s house to watch him and to kill him in the morning. And Michal, David’s wife, told him, saying, “If you do not save your life tonight, tomorrow you will be killed.” ¹²So Michal let David down through a window. And he went and fled and escaped. ¹³And Michal took an image and laid it in the bed, put a cover of goats’ hair for his head, and covered it with clothes. ¹⁴So when Saul sent messengers to take David, she said, “He is sick.” ¹⁵Then Saul sent the messengers back to see David, saying, “Bring him up to me in the bed, that I may kill him.” ¹⁶And when the messengers had come in, there was the image in the bed, with a cover of goats’ hair for his head. ¹⁷Then Saul said to Michal, “Why have you deceived me like this, and sent my enemy away, so that he has escaped?” And Michal answered Saul, “He said to me, ‘Let me go! Why should I kill you?’ ” ¹⁸So David fled and escaped, and went to Samuel at Ramah, and told him all that Saul had done to him. And he and Samuel went and stayed in Naioth. ¹⁹Now it was told Saul, saying, “Take note, David is at Naioth in Ramah!” ²⁰Then Saul sent messengers to take David. And when they saw the group of prophets prophesying, and Samuel standing as leader over them, the Spirit of God came upon the messengers of Saul, and they also prophesied. ²¹And when Saul was told, he sent other messengers, and they prophesied likewise. Then Saul sent messengers again the third time, and they prophesied also. ²²Then he also went to Ramah, and came to the great well that is at Sechu. So he asked, and said, “Where are Samuel and David?” And someone said, “Indeed they are at Naioth in Ramah.” ²³So he went there to Naioth in Ramah. Then the Spirit of God was upon him also, and he went on and prophesied until he came to Naioth in Ramah. ²⁴And he also stripped off his clothes and prophesied before Samuel in like manner, and lay down naked all that day and all that night. Therefore they say, “Is Saul also among the prophets?”

¹Paul, called to be an apostle of Jesus Christ through the will of God, and Sosthenes our brother, ²To the church of God which is at Corinth, to those who are sanctified in Christ Jesus, called to be saints, with all who in every place call on the name of Jesus Christ our Lord, both theirs and ours: ³Grace to you and peace from God our Father and the Lord Jesus Christ. ⁴I thank my God always concerning you for the grace of God which was given to you by Christ Jesus, ⁵that you were enriched in everything by Him in all utterance and all knowledge, ⁶even as the testimony of Christ was confirmed in you, ⁷so that you come short in no gift, eagerly waiting for the revelation of our Lord Jesus Christ, ⁸who will also confirm you to the end, that you may be blameless in the day of our Lord Jesus Christ. ⁹God is faithful, by whom you were called into the fellowship of His Son, Jesus Christ our Lord. ¹⁰Now I plead with you, brethren, by the name of our Lord Jesus Christ, that you all speak the same thing, and that there be no divisions among you, but that you be perfectly joined together in the same mind and in the same judgment. ¹¹For it has been declared to me concerning you, my brethren, by those of Chloe’s household, that there are contentions among you. ¹²Now I say this, that each of you says, “I am of Paul,” or “I am of Apollos,” or “I am of Cephas,” or “I am of Christ.” ¹³Is Christ divided? Was Paul crucified for you? Or were you baptized in the name of Paul? ¹⁴I thank God that I baptized none of you except Crispus and Gaius, ¹⁵lest anyone should say that I had baptized in my own name. ¹⁶Yes, I also baptized the household of Stephanas. Besides, I do not know whether I baptized any other. ¹⁷For Christ did not send me to baptize, but to preach the gospel, not with wisdom of words, lest the cross of Christ should be made of no effect. ¹⁸For the message of the cross is foolishness to those who are perishing, but to us who are being saved it is the power of God. ¹⁹For it is written: “I will destroy the wisdom of the wise, And bring to nothing the understanding of the prudent.” ²⁰Where is the wise? Where is the scribe? Where is the disputer of this age? Has not God made foolish the wisdom of this world? ²¹For since, in the wisdom of God, the world through wisdom did not know God, it pleased God through the foolishness of the message preached to save those who believe. ²²For Jews request a sign, and Greeks seek after wisdom; ²³but we preach Christ crucified, to the Jews a stumbling block and to the Greeks foolishness, ²⁴but to those who are called, both Jews and Greeks, Christ the power of God and the wisdom of God. ²⁵Because the foolishness of God is wiser than men, and the weakness of God is stronger than men. ²⁶For you see your calling, brethren, that not many wise according to the flesh, not many mighty, not many noble, are called. ²⁷But God has chosen the foolish things of the world to put to shame the wise, and God has chosen the weak things of the world to put to shame the things which are mighty; ²⁸and the base things of the world and the things which are despised God has chosen, and the things which are not, to bring to nothing the things that are, ²⁹that no flesh should glory in His presence. ³⁰But of Him you are in Christ Jesus, who became for us wisdom from God—and righteousness and sanctification and redemption— ³¹that, as it is written, “He who glories, let him glory in the Lord.”

¹How the gold has become dim! How changed the fine gold! The stones of the sanctuary are scattered At the head of every street. ²The precious sons of Zion, Valuable as fine gold, How they are regarded as clay pots, The work of the hands of the potter! ³Even the jackals present their breasts To nurse their young; But the daughter of my people is cruel, Like ostriches in the wilderness. ⁴The tongue of the infant clings To the roof of its mouth for thirst; The young children ask for bread, But no one breaks it for them. ⁵Those who ate delicacies Are desolate in the streets; Those who were brought up in scarlet Embrace ash heaps. ⁶The punishment of the iniquity of the daughter of my people Is greater than the punishment of the sin of Sodom, Which was overthrown in a moment, With no hand to help her! ⁷Her Nazirites were brighter than snow And whiter than milk; They were more ruddy in body than rubies, Like sapphire in their appearance. ⁸Now their appearance is blacker than soot; They go unrecognized in the streets; Their skin clings to their bones, It has become as dry as wood. ⁹Those slain by the sword are better off Than those who die of hunger; For these pine away, Stricken for lack of the fruits of the field. ¹⁰The hands of the compassionate women Have cooked their own children; They became food for them In the destruction of the daughter of my people. ¹¹The Lᴏʀᴅ has fulfilled His fury, He has poured out His fierce anger. He kindled a fire in Zion, And it has devoured its foundations. ¹²The kings of the earth, And all inhabitants of the world, Would not have believed That the adversary and the enemy Could enter the gates of Jerusalem— ¹³Because of the sins of her prophets And the iniquities of her priests, Who shed in her midst The blood of the just. ¹⁴They wandered blind in the streets; They have defiled themselves with blood, So that no one would touch their garments. ¹⁵They cried out to them, “Go away, unclean! Go away, go away, Do not touch us!” When they fled and wandered, Those among the nations said, “They shall no longer dwell here.” ¹⁶The face of the Lᴏʀᴅ scattered them; He no longer regards them. The people do not respect the priests Nor show favor to the elders. ¹⁷Still our eyes failed us, Watching vainly for our help; In our watching we watched For a nation that could not save us. ¹⁸They tracked our steps So that we could not walk in our streets. Our end was near; Our days were over, For our end had come. ¹⁹Our pursuers were swifter Than the eagles of the heavens. They pursued us on the mountains And lay in wait for us in the wilderness. ²⁰The breath of our nostrils, the anointed of the Lᴏʀᴅ, Was caught in their pits, Of whom we said, “Under his shadow We shall live among the nations.” ²¹Rejoice and be glad, O daughter of Edom, You who dwell in the land of Uz! The cup shall also pass over to you And you shall become drunk and make yourself naked. ²²The punishment of your iniquity is accomplished, O daughter of Zion; He will no longer send you into captivity. He will punish your iniquity, O daughter of Edom; He will uncover your sins!

¹A Psalm of David. Plead my cause, O Lᴏʀᴅ, with those who strive with me; Fight against those who fight against me. ²Take hold of shield and buckler, And stand up for my help. ³Also draw out the spear, And stop those who pursue me. Say to my soul, “I am your salvation.” ⁴Let those be put to shame and brought to dishonor Who seek after my life; Let those be turned back and brought to confusion Who plot my hurt. ⁵Let them be like chaff before the wind, And let the angel of the Lᴏʀᴅ chase them. ⁶Let their way be dark and slippery, And let the angel of the Lᴏʀᴅ pursue them. ⁷For without cause they have hidden their net for me in a pit, Which they have dug without cause for my life. ⁸Let destruction come upon him unexpectedly, And let his net that he has hidden catch himself; Into that very destruction let him fall. ⁹And my soul shall be joyful in the Lᴏʀᴅ; It shall rejoice in His salvation. ¹⁰All my bones shall say, “Lord, who is like You, Delivering the poor from him who is too strong for him, Yes, the poor and the needy from him who plunders him?” ¹¹Fierce witnesses rise up; They ask me things that I do not know. ¹²They reward me evil for good, To the sorrow of my soul. ¹³But as for me, when they were sick, My clothing was sackcloth; I humbled myself with fasting; And my prayer would return to my own heart. ¹⁴I paced about as though he were my friend or brother; I bowed down heavily, as one who mourns for his mother. ¹⁵But in my adversity they rejoiced And gathered together; Attackers gathered against me, And I did not know it; They tore at me and did not cease; ¹⁶With ungodly mockers at feasts They gnashed at me with their teeth. ¹⁷Lord, how long will You look on? Rescue me from their destructions, My precious life from the lions. ¹⁸I will give You thanks in the great assembly; I will praise You among many people. ¹⁹Let them not rejoice over me who are wrongfully my enemies; Nor let them wink with the eye who hate me without a cause. ²⁰For they do not speak peace, But they devise deceitful matters Against the quiet ones in the land. ²¹They also opened their mouth wide against me, And said, “Aha, aha! Our eyes have seen it.” ²²This You have seen, O Lᴏʀᴅ; Do not keep silence. O Lᴏʀᴅ, do not be far from me. ²³Stir up Yourself, and awake to my vindication, To my cause, my God and my Lord. ²⁴Vindicate me, O Lᴏʀᴅ my God, according to Your righteousness; And let them not rejoice over me. ²⁵Let them not say in their hearts, “Ah, so we would have it!” Let them not say, “We have swallowed him up.” ²⁶Let them be ashamed and brought to mutual confusion Who rejoice at my hurt; Let them be clothed with shame and dishonor Who exalt themselves against me. ²⁷Let them shout for joy and be glad, Who favor my righteous cause; And let them say continually, “Let the Lᴏʀᴅ be magnified, Who has pleasure in the prosperity of His servant.” ²⁸And my tongue shall speak of Your righteousness And of Your praise all the day long.