New Revised Standard Version
In the LORD I take refuge; how can you say to me, “Flee like a bird to the mountains;

Contemporary English Version
The LORD is my fortress! Don't say to me, "Escape like a bird to the mountains!"

New American Bible
For the leader. Of David. In the LORD I take refuge; how can you say to me, “Flee like a bird to the mountains!

Douay-Rheims Bible
Unto the end. A psalm to David.

Unto the end. A psalm to David.

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2942 B.C.

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Psalm 7:1 The psalm of David, which he sung to the Lord, for the words of Chusi, the son of Jemini. [2] O Lord, my God, in thee have I put my trust; save me from all them that persecute me, and deliver me.

Psalm 9:10 And let them trust in thee who know thy name: for thou hast not forsaken them that seek thee, O Lord.

Psalm 16:1 The inscription of a title to David himself. Preserve me, O Lord, for I have put my trust in thee.

Psalm 25:2 In thee, O my God, I put my trust; let me not be ashamed.

Psalm 31:14 But I have put my trust in thee, O Lord: I said: Thou art my God.

Psalm 56:11 In God have I hoped, I will not fear what man can do to me.

2 Chronicles 14:11 And he called upon the Lord God, and said: Lord, there is no difference with thee, whether thou help with few, or with many: help us, O Lord our God: for with confidence in thee, and in thy name we are come against this multitude. O Lord thou art our God, let not man prevail against thee.

2 Chronicles 16:8 Were not the Ethiopians, and the Libyans much more numerous in chariots, and horsemen, and an exceeding great multitude: yet because thou trustedst in the Lord, he delivered them into thy hand?

Isaiah 26:3,4 The old error is passed away: thou wilt keep peace: peace, because we have hoped in thee. . . .

how

1 Samuel 19:11 Saul therefore sent his guards to David's house to watch him, that he might be killed in the morning. And when Michol, David's wife, had told him this, saying: Unless thou save thyself this night, to morrow thou wilt die:

1 Samuel 20:38 And Jonathan cried again after the boy, saying: Make haste speedily, stand not. And Jonathan's boy gathered up the arrows, and brought them to his master:

1 Samuel 21:10-12 And David arose and fled that day from the face of Saul: and came to Achis, the king of Geth: . . .

1 Samuel 22:3 And David departed from thence into Maspha of Moab: and he said to the king of Moab: Let my father and my mother tarry with you, I beseech thee, till I know what God will do for me.

1 Samuel 23:14 But David abode in the desert in strong holds, and he remained in a mountain of the desert of Ziph, in a woody hill. And Saul sought him always: but the Lord delivered him not into his hands.

1 Samuel 27:1 And David said in his heart: I shall one day or other fall into the hands of Saul: is it not better for me to flee, and to be saved in the land of the Philistines, that Saul may despair of me, and cease to seek me in all the coasts of Israel? I will flee then out of his hands.

Flee

Psalm 55:6,7 And I said: Who will give me wings like a dove, and I will fly and be at rest? . . .

Proverbs 6:5 Go to the ant, O sluggard, and consider her ways, and learn wisdom:

Luke 13:31 The same day, there came some of the Pharisees, saying to him: Depart, and get thee hence, for Herod hath a mind to kill thee.