Midrash su Salmi 142:6

(Gen. 31:3:) THEN GOD SAID UNTO JACOB…. This text is related (to Ps. 142:6 [5]): I CRIED UNTO YOU, O LORD; I SAID: YOU ARE MY REFUGE, MY PORTION IN THE LAND OF THE LIVING. Who uttered this verse? David uttered it. MY PORTION IN THE LAND OF THE LIVING: He calls the land of Israel THE LAND OF THE LIVING. Why? Resh Laqish said in the name of R. Eleazar haQappar: Because the dead in the land of Israel are the first to come alive in the days of the Messiah. For this reason he calls it THE LAND OF THE LIVING.⁷⁸Below, 12:6; Tanh., Gen. 12:3; yKil. 9:4 (32c); yKet. 12:3 (12:4)(35b); Ket. 111a; Gen. R. 74:1; 96:5 (7); PR 1:4, 6; cf. also Zech. 14:4; 1 Thessalonians 4:16; Revelation 20:4-5. David said: I yearn to dwell within it, but Saul does not allow me. Rather (according to I Sam. 26:19): FOR THEY HAVE DRIVEN ME OUT TODAY SO THAT I SHOULD HAVE NO SHARE IN THE LORD'S INHERITANCE. Therefore (in Ps. 142:6 [5]): I CRIED UNTO YOU, O LORD; and, because I did so, I became king over Israel.

Another interpretation (of Ps. 142:6 [5]): I CRIED UNTO YOU, O LORD. < The verse > speaks about Jacob. When he set out from his father's house, what does it say (in Gen. 28:20)? IF GOD IS WITH ME…. He raised his eyes to the Holy One < and > said (in Ps. 142:6 [5], cont.): YOU ARE MY REFUGE. He said to him (in Gen. 28:15): SEE, I AM WITH YOU…. (Ps. 124:6 [5], cont.:) MY PORTION IN THE LAND OF THE LIVING. Now Jacob was hoping to return to the land of Israel. Jacob said: With permission I went out. If I do not get permission, I am not returning. The Holy One said: Do you want permission? Permission you have. (Gen. 31:3, cont.:) RETURN UNTO THE LAND OF YOUR PARENTS. Did you come for anything but the tribes? See, you have them.