chapter_Psalm_55
Psalm 55:1: To the Overseer with stringed instruments. &#8212; An instruction, by David. Give ear, O God, to my prayer, And hide not from my supplication. Psalm 55:2: Attend to me, and answer me, I mourn in my meditation, and make a noise, Psalm 55:3: Because 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. Psalm 55:4: My heart is pained within me, And terrors of death have fallen on me. Psalm 55:5: Fear and trembling come in to me, And horror doth cover me. Psalm 55:6: And I say, 'Who doth give to me a pinion as a dove? I fly away and rest, Psalm 55:7: Lo, I move far off, I lodge in a wilderness. Selah. Psalm 55:8: I hasten escape for myself, From a rushing wind, from a whirlwind. Psalm 55:9: Swallow up, O Lord, divide their tongue, For I saw violence and strife in a city. Psalm 55:10: By day and by night they go round it, on its walls. Both iniquity and perverseness are in its midst, Psalm 55:11: Mischiefs are in its midst. Fraud and deceit depart not from its street. Psalm 55:12: For an enemy reproacheth me not, or I bear it, He who is hating me Hath not magnified himself against me, Or I hide from him. Psalm 55:13: But thou, a man &#8212; as mine equal, My familiar friend, and mine acquaintance. Psalm 55:14: When together we sweeten counsel, Into the house of God we walk in company. Psalm 55:15: Desolations are upon them, They go down to Sheol &#8212; alive, For wickedness is in their dwelling, in their midst. Psalm 55:16: I &#8212; to God I call, and Jehovah saveth me. Psalm 55:17: Evening, and morning, and noon, I meditate, and make a noise, and He heareth my voice, Psalm 55:18: He hath ransomed in peace my soul From him who is near to me, For with the multitude they were with me. Psalm 55:19: God doth hear and afflict them, And He sitteth of old. Selah. Because they have no changes, and fear not God, Psalm 55:20: He hath sent forth his hands against his well-wishers, He hath polluted his covenant. Psalm 55:21: Sweeter than honey hath been his mouth, And his heart is war! Softer have been his words than oil, And they are drawn swords. Psalm 55:22: Cast on Jehovah that which He hath given thee, And He doth sustain thee, He doth not suffer for ever the moving of the righteous. Psalm 55:23: And Thou, O God, dost bring them down To a pit of destruction, Men of blood and deceit reach not to half their days, And I &#8212; I do trust in Thee!
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