Psalms 55

¹TO THE OVERSEER. WITH STRINGED INSTRUMENTS. AN INSTRUCTION OF DAVID. Give ear, O God, to my prayer, And do not hide from my supplication.

²Attend to me, and answer me, I mourn in my meditation, and make a noise,

³Because of the voice of an enemy, Because of the oppression of the wicked, For they cause sorrow to move against me, And in anger they hate me.

⁴My heart is pained within me, And terrors of death have fallen on me.

⁵Fear and trembling come to me, And horror covers me.

⁶And I say, “Who gives to me a pinion as a dove?” I fly away and rest,

⁷Behold, I move far off, I lodge in a wilderness. Selah.

⁸I hurry escape for myself, From a rushing wind, from a whirlwind.

⁹Swallow up, O Lord, divide their tongue, For I saw violence and strife in a city.

¹⁰By day and by night they go around it, on its walls. Both iniquity and perverseness are in its midst,

¹¹Mischiefs are in its midst. Fraud and deceit do not depart from its street.

¹²For an enemy does not reproach me, or I bear it, He who is hating me Has not magnified himself against me, Or I hide from him.

¹³But you, a man—as my equal, My familiar friend, and my acquaintance.

¹⁴When together we sweeten counsel, We walk into the house of God in company.

¹⁵Desolations are on them, They go down to Sheol—alive, For wickedness is in their dwelling, in their midst.

¹⁶I call to God, and YHWH saves me.

¹⁷Evening, and morning, and noon, I meditate, and make a noise, and He hears my voice,

¹⁸He has ransomed my soul in peace From him who is near to me, For with the multitude they were with me.

¹⁹God hears and afflicts them, And He sits of old. Selah. Because they have no changes, and do not fear God,

²⁰He has sent forth his hands against his well-wishers, He has defiled his covenant.

²¹His mouth has been sweeter than honey, And his heart is war! His words have been softer than oil, And they are drawn swords.

²²Cast on YHWH that which He has given you, And He sustains you, He does not permit the moving of the righteous forever.

²³And You, O God, bring them down To a pit of destruction, Men of blood and deceit do not reach to half their days, And I trust in You!

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