Psalms 55
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Psalm 55
Complaint about a Friend’s Treachery
To the leader: with stringed instruments. A Maskil of David.
1 #
Ps 27.9; 61.1 Give ear to my prayer, O God;
do not hide yourself from my supplication.
2 #
Ps 66.19; 77.3; Isa 38.14 Attend to me and answer me;
I am troubled in my complaint.
I am distraught 3#2 Sam 16.7, 8; Ps 17.9; 71.11by the noise of the enemy,
because of the clamor of the wicked.
For they bring#55.3 Cn Compare Gk: Heb they cause to totter trouble upon me,
and in anger they bear a grudge against me.
4 #
Ps 116.3
My heart is in anguish within me;
the terrors of death have fallen upon me.
5 #
Job 21.6; Ps 119.120 Fear and trembling come upon me,
and horror overwhelms me.
6 #
Job 3.13
And I say, “O that I had wings like a dove!
I would fly away and be at rest;
7truly, I would flee far away;
I would lodge in the wilderness; Selah
8 #
Isa 4.6
I would hurry to find a shelter for myself
from the raging wind and tempest.”
9 #
Jer 6.7
Confuse, O Lord, confound their speech,
for I see violence and strife in the city.
10Day and night they go around it
on its walls,
and iniquity and trouble are within it;
11 #
Ps 5.9; 10.7 ruin is in its midst;
oppression and fraud
do not depart from its marketplace.
12 #
Ps 41.9
It is not enemies who taunt me—
I could bear that;
it is not adversaries who deal insolently with me—
I could hide from them.
13 #
2 Sam 15.12; Jer 9.4 But it is you, my equal,
my companion, my familiar friend,
14 #
Ps 42.4
with whom I kept pleasant company;
we walked in the house of God with the throng.
15 #
Num 16.30, 33; Ps 64.7 Let death come upon them;
let them go down alive to Sheol,
for evil is in their homes and in their hearts.
16 #
Ps 57.2, 3 But I call upon God,
and the Lord will save me.
17 #
Ps 141.2; Dan 6.10 Evening and morning and at noon
I utter my complaint and moan,
and he will hear my voice.
18 #
2 Chr 32.7, 8; Ps 103.4 He will redeem me unharmed
from the battle that I wage,
for many are arrayed against me.
19 #
Deut 33.27; Ps 78.59 God, who is enthroned from of old, Selah
will hear and will humble them,
because they do not change
and do not fear God.
20 #
Ps 7.4; 89.34 My companion laid hands on a friend
and violated a covenant with me#55.20 Heb lacks with me
21 #
Ps 59.7; Prov 5.3 with speech smoother than butter
but with a heart set on war,
with words that were softer than oil
but in fact were drawn swords.
22 #
Ps 37.24; Mt 6.25 Cast your burden#55.22 Or Cast what he has given you on the Lord,
and he will sustain you;
he will never permit
the righteous to be moved.
23 #
Job 15.32; Ps 5.6; 73.18 But you, O God, will cast them down
into the lowest pit;
the bloodthirsty and treacherous
shall not live out half their days.
But I will trust in you.
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