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Psalm 56

¹Be merciful unto me, O God: for man would swallow me up; he fighting daily oppresseth me.
²Mine enemies would daily swallow me up: for they be many that fight against me, O thou most High.
³What time I am afraid, I will trust in thee.
⁴In God I will praise his word, in God I have put my trust; I will not fear what flesh can do unto me.
⁵Every day they wrest my words: all their thoughts are against me for evil.
⁶They gather themselves together, they hide themselves, they mark my steps, when they wait for my soul.
⁷Shall they escape by iniquity? in thine anger cast down the people, O God.
⁸Thou tellest my wanderings: put thou my tears into thy bottle: are they not in thy book?
⁹When I cry unto thee, then shall mine enemies turn back: this I know; for God is for me.
¹⁰In God will I praise his word: in the Lord will I praise his word.
¹¹In God have I put my trust: I will not be afraid what man can do unto me.
¹²Thy vows are upon me, O God: I will render praises unto thee.
¹³For thou hast delivered my soul from death: wilt not thou deliver my feet from falling, that I may walk before God in the light of the living?

¹⁹Then said Ahimaaz the son of Zadok, Let me now run, and bear the king tidings, how that the Lord hath avenged him of his enemies.
²⁰And Joab said unto him, Thou shalt not bear tidings this day, but thou shalt bear tidings another day: but this day thou shalt bear no tidings, because the king’s son is dead.
²¹Then said Joab to Cushi, Go tell the king what thou hast seen. And Cushi bowed himself unto Joab, and ran.
²²Then said Ahimaaz the son of Zadok yet again to Joab, But howsoever, let me, I pray thee, also run after Cushi. And Joab said, Wherefore wilt thou run, my son, seeing that thou hast no tidings ready?
²³But howsoever, said he, let me run. And he said unto him, Run. Then Ahimaaz ran by the way of the plain, and overran Cushi.
²⁴And David sat between the two gates: and the watchman went up to the roof over the gate unto the wall, and lifted up his eyes, and looked, and behold a man running alone.
²⁵And the watchman cried, and told the king. And the king said, If he be alone, there is tidings in his mouth. And he came apace, and drew near.
²⁶And the watchman saw another man running: and the watchman called unto the porter, and said, Behold another man running alone. And the king said, He also bringeth tidings.
²⁷And the watchman said, Me thinketh the running of the foremost is like the running of Ahimaaz the son of Zadok. And the king said, He is a good man, and cometh with good tidings.
²⁸And Ahimaaz called, and said unto the king, All is well. And he fell down to the earth upon his face before the king, and said, Blessed be the Lord thy God, which hath delivered up the men that lifted up their hand against my lord the king.
²⁹And the king said, Is the young man Absalom safe? And Ahimaaz answered, When Joab sent the king’s servant, and me thy servant, I saw a great tumult, but I knew not what it was.
³⁰And the king said unto him, Turn aside, and stand here. And he turned aside, and stood still.
³¹And, behold, Cushi came; and Cushi said, Tidings, my lord the king: for the Lord hath avenged thee this day of all them that rose up against thee.
³²And the king said unto Cushi, Is the young man Absalom safe? And Cushi answered, The enemies of my lord the king, and all that rise against thee to do thee hurt, be as that young man is.
³³And the king was much moved, and went up to the chamber over the gate, and wept: and as he went, thus he said, O my son Absalom, my son, my son Absalom! would God I had died for thee, O Absalom, my son, my son!

8Moreover, brethren, we do you to wit of the grace of God bestowed on the churches of Macedonia;
²How that in a great trial of affliction the abundance of their joy and their deep poverty abounded unto the riches of their liberality.
³For to their power, I bear record, yea, and beyond their power they were willing of themselves;
⁴Praying us with much intreaty that we would receive the gift, and take upon us the fellowship of the ministering to the saints.
⁵And this they did, not as we hoped, but first gave their own selves to the Lord, and unto us by the will of God.
⁶Insomuch that we desired Titus, that as he had begun, so he would also finish in you the same grace also.
⁷Therefore, as ye abound in every thing, in faith, and utterance, and knowledge, and in all diligence, and in your love to us, see that ye abound in this grace also.
⁸I speak not by commandment, but by occasion of the forwardness of others, and to prove the sincerity of your love.
⁹For ye know the grace of our Lord Jesus Christ, that, though he was rich, yet for your sakes he became poor, that ye through his poverty might be rich.
¹⁰And herein I give my advice: for this is expedient for you, who have begun before, not only to do, but also to be forward a year ago.
¹¹Now therefore perform the doing of it; that as there was a readiness to will, so there may be a performance also out of that which ye have.
¹²For if there be first a willing mind, it is accepted according to that a man hath, and not according to that he hath not.
¹³For I mean not that other men be eased, and ye burdened:
¹⁴But by an equality, that now at this time your abundance may be a supply for their want, that their abundance also may be a supply for your want: that there may be equality:
¹⁵As it is written, He that had gathered much had nothing over; and he that had gathered little had no lack.