DAILY TEXT Thursday, June 6 You are my refuge, my share in the land of the living ones.—Ps. 142:5. At the time that David composed this psalm, he was not in a palace or even in a house. He was in a cave, hiding from his enemies. King Saul was the one hounding David, seeking to take his life. David fled to a cave that was hard to approach. (1 Sam. 22:1,So David proceeded to go from there+ and escape+ to the cave of A·dul′lam; and his brothers and the entire house of his father got to hear of it and made their way down there to him. 4)Accordingly he settled them before the king of Mo′ab, and they continued dwelling with him all the days that David happened to be in the inaccessible place. In this remote region, it might have seemed to David that no friend was at his side to give him protective support. (Ps. 142:4) Mas′kil.* Of David, when he happened to be in the cave. A prayer. 142 With my voice, to Jehovah I proceeded to call for aid; With my voice, to Jehovah I began to cry for favor. 2 Before him I kept pouring out my concern; Before him I continued to tell about my own distress, 3 When my spirit fainted away within me. Then you yourself knew my roadway. In the path in which I walk They have hidden a trap for me. 4 Look to the right hand and see That there is no one giving any recognition to me. My place for flight has perished from me; There is no one inquiring for my soul. 5 I called to you, O Jehovah, for aid. I said: “You are my refuge, My share in the land of the living ones.” 6 Do pay attention to my entreating cry, For I have become very much impoverished. Deliver me from my persecutors, For they are stronger than I am. 7 Do bring my soul out of the very dungeon To laud your name. Around me let the righteous ones gather, Because you deal appropriately with me.Look to the right hand and see That there is no one giving any recognition to me .My place for flight has perished from me. There is no one inquiring for my soul. That was when David called out to God. By the time David composed Psalm 142, he may have learned what had befallen High Priest Ahimelech, who had unwittingly given him assistance when he was fleeing from Saul. Jealous King Saul had Ahimelech and his household killed. (1 Sam. 22:11,At once the king sent to call A·him′e·lech the son of A·hi′tub the priest and all the house of his father, the priests that were in Nob.+ So all of them came to the king. 1 Samuel 22:18, 19Finally the king said to Do′eg: “You turn and assault the priests!” Immediately Do′eg the E′dom·ite+ turned and himself assaulted the priests and put to death on that day eighty-five men bearing an eph′od of linen.* 19 Even Nob the city of the priests he struck with the edge of the sword, man as well as woman, child as well as suckling and bull and ass and sheep with the edge of the sword. David felt responsible for their deaths. It was as if he had killed the priest who had helped him. If you had been in David’s position, would you have felt responsible? Adding to David’s stress was the fact that he had no rest because Saul kept on pursuing him. wol.jw.org/en/wol/h/r1/lp-e
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