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1 Samuel 23:21
And Saul saith, `Blessed are ye of Jehovah, for ye have pity on me;
1 Samuel 23:21 · Young's Literal Translation
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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 make a covenant both of them before Jehovah; and David abideth in the forest, and Jonathan hath gone to his house.
19 And the Ziphites go up unto Saul to Gibeah, saying, `Is not David hiding himself with us in fortresses, in the forest, in the height of Hachilah, which is on the south of the desolate place?
20 And, now, by all the desire of thy soul, O king, to come down, come down, and ours is to shut him up into the hand of the king.'
21 And Saul saith, `Blessed are ye of Jehovah, for ye have pity on me;
22 go, I pray you, prepare yet, and know and see his place where his foot is; who hath seen him there? for one hath said unto me, He is very subtile.
23 And see and know of all the hiding-places where he hideth himself, and ye have turned back unto me prepared, and I have gone with you, and it hath been, if he is in the land, that I have searched him out through all the thousands of Judah.'
24 And they rise and go to Ziph before Saul, and David and his men are in the wilderness of Maon, in the plain, at the south of the desolate place.
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