1 Samuel 26:18-20

Contemporary English Version

¹⁸ Why are you hunting me down? Have I done something wrong, or have I committed a crime? ¹⁹ Please listen to what I have to say. If the Lord has turned you against me, maybe a sacrifice will make him change his mind. But if some people have turned you against me, I hope the Lord will punish them! They have forced me to leave the land that belongs to the Lord and have told me to worship foreign gods.^{[a] 20} Don't let me die in a land far away from the Lord. I'm no more important than a flea! Why should the king of Israel hunt me down as if I were a bird in the mountains?”