1Sa 25:33-36, 30:6, Psa 31:7-8, 22, 71:20, Isa 38:9-22, 2Cor 1:8-10 | ESV | STEP | Blessed be your discretion , and blessed be you, who have kept me this day from bloodguilt and from working salvation with my own hand !

33 Blessed be your discretion, and blessed be you, ^awho have kept me this day from bloodguilt ^band from working salvation with my own hand! 34 For as surely ^cas the Lord, the God of Israel, lives, ^dwho has restrained me from hurting you, unless you had hurried and come to meet me, truly by morning there had not been left to Nabal so much as one male.” 35 Then David received from her hand what she had brought him. And he said to her, ^e“Go up in peace to your house. See, I have obeyed your voice, and I have granted your petition.”

36 And Abigail came to Nabal, and behold, ^fhe was holding a feast in his house, like the feast of a king. And Nabal’s heart ^gwas merry within him, for he was very drunk. So she told him nothing ^hat all until the morning light.

1 Samuel 30:6

6 And David was greatly distressed, for the people spoke ⁱof stoning him, because all the people were bitter in soul, ^{▼▼Compare 22:2} each for his sons and daughters. But David strengthened himself in the Lord his God.

Psalms 31:7-8

7 I will rejoice and be glad in your steadfast love,
because you have seen my affliction;
you have ^kknown the distress of my soul,
8 and you have not ^ldelivered me into the hand of the enemy;
you have set my feet in ^ma broad place.

Psalms 31:22

22 I had said in my ⁿalarm, ^{▼▼Or in my haste}
“I am ^pcut off from ^qyour sight.”
But you heard the voice of my pleas for mercy
when I cried to you for help.

Psalms 71:20

20 You who have ^rmade me see many troubles and calamities
will ^srevive me again;
from the depths of the earth
you will bring me up again.

Isaiah 38:9-22

9 A writing of Hezekiah king of Judah, after he had been sick and had recovered from his sickness:

10 I said, ^tIn the middle ^{▼▼Or In the quiet} of my days
I must depart;
I am consigned to the gates of Sheol
for the rest of my years.
11 I said, I shall not see the Lord,
the Lord ^vin the land of the living;
I shall look on man no more
among the inhabitants of the world.
12 My dwelling is plucked up and removed from me
^wlike a shepherd’s tent;
^xlike a weaver ^yI have rolled up my life;
^zhe cuts me off from the loom;
^aafrom day to night you bring me to an end;
13 ^abI calmed myself ^{▼▼Or (with Targum) I cried for help} until morning;
like a lion ^adhe breaks all my bones;
from day to night you bring me to an end.
14 Like ^aea swallow or a crane I chirp;
^afI moan like a dove.
^agMy eyes are weary with looking upward.
O Lord, I am oppressed; ^ahbe my pledge of safety!
15 What shall I say? For he has spoken to me,
and he himself has done it.
^aiI walk slowly all my years
because of the bitterness of my soul.
16 ^ajO Lord, by these things men live,
and in all these is the life of my spirit.
Oh restore me to health and make me live!
17 ^akBehold, it was for my welfare
that I had great bitterness;
^albut in love you have delivered my life
from the pit of destruction,
^amfor you have cast all my sins
behind your back.
18 ^anFor Sheol does not thank you;
death does not praise you;
those who go down to the pit do not hope
for your faithfulness.
19 The living, the living, he thanks you,
as I do this day;
^aothe father makes known to the children
your faithfulness.
20 The Lord will save me,
and we will play my music on stringed instruments
all the days of our lives,
^apat the house of the Lord.
21 ^aqNow Isaiah had said, “Let them take a cake of figs and apply it to the boil, that he may recover.” 22 Hezekiah also had said, “What is the sign that I shall go up to the house of the Lord?”

2 Corinthians 1:8-10

8 For we do not want you to be unaware, brothers, ^{▼▼Or brothers and sisters. The plural Greek word adelphoi (translated “brothers”) refers to siblings in a family. In New Testament usage, depending on the context, adelphoi may refer either to men or to both men and women who are siblings (brothers and sisters) in God’s family, the church} of ^asthe affliction we experienced in Asia. For we were so utterly burdened beyond our strength that we despaired of life itself. 9 Indeed, we felt that we had received the sentence of death. But that was to make us ^atrely not on ourselves ^aubut on God ^avwho raises the dead. 10 ^awHe delivered us from such a deadly peril, and he will deliver us. ^axOn him we have set our hope that he will deliver us again.