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1 Samuel 23:21
And Saul said: Blessed be ye of the Lord, for you have pitied my case.
1 Samuel 23:21 · Douay-Rheims Bible (Challoner)
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1 Samuel 23:21 in other translations
And Saul said, Blessed be ye of the LORD; for ye have compassion on me.
“May you be blessed by the LORD,” replied Saul, “for you have had compassion on me.
Saul said, “You are blessed by the LORD, for you have had compassion on me.
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In context
18 And they two made a covenant before the Lord: and David abode in the wood: but Jonathan returned to his house.
19 And the Ziphites went up to Saul, in Gabaa, saying: Lo, doth not David lie hid with us in the strong holds of the wood, in mount Hachila, which is on the right hand of the desert.
20 Now therefore come down, as thy soul hath desired to come down: and it shall be our business to deliver him into the king's hands.
21 And Saul said: Blessed be ye of the Lord, for you have pitied my case.
22 Go, therefore, I pray you, and use all diligence, and curiously inquire, and consider the place where his foot is, and who hath seen him there: for he thinketh of me, that I lie craftily in wait for him.
23 Consider, and see all his lurking holes, wherein he is hid, and return to me with the certainty of the thing, that I may go with you. And if he should even go down into the earth to hide himself, I will search him out in all the thousands of Juda.
24 And they arose, and went to Ziph before Saul: and David and his men were in the desert of Maon, in the plain at the right hand of Jesimon.
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