Psalms 56
56
Psalm 56
For the choir director; according to yonath elem rechokim; #56:0 Unknown musical term. a miktam by David when the Philistines captured him in Gath.
1Have pity on me, O God, because people are harassing me.
All day long warriors oppress me.
2All day long my enemies spy on me.
They harass me.
There are so many fighting against me.
3Even when I am afraid, I still trust you.
4I praise God’s word.
I trust God.
I am not afraid.
What can mere flesh ⌞and blood⌟ do to me?
5All day long my enemies twist my words.
Their every thought is an evil plan against me.
6They attack, and then they hide.
They watch my every step as they wait to take my life.
7With the wrong they do, can they escape?
O God, angrily make the nations fall.
8(You have kept a record of my wanderings.
Put my tears in your bottle.
They are already in your book.)
9Then my enemies will retreat when I call ⌞to you⌟.
This I know: God is on my side.
10I praise God’s word.
I praise the Lord’s word.
11I trust God.
I am not afraid.
What can mortals do to me?
12I am bound by my vows to you, O God.
I will keep my vows by offering songs of thanksgiving to you.
13You have rescued me from death.
You have kept my feet from stumbling
so that I could walk in your presence, in the light of life.
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Psalms 56
56
For the Chief Musician; set to Jonath elem rehokim. A Psalm of David: Michtam: When the Philistines took him in Gath.
1Be merciful unto me, O God; for man would swallow me up:
All the day long he fighting oppresseth me.
2Mine enemies would swallow me up all the day long:
For they be many that fight proudly against me.
3What time I am afraid,
I will put my trust in thee.
4In God I will praise his word:
In God have I put my trust, I will not be afraid;
What can flesh do unto me?
5All the day long they wrest my words:
All their thoughts are against me for evil.
6They gather themselves together, they hide themselves,
They mark my steps,
Even as they have waited for my soul.
7Shall they escape by iniquity?
In anger cast down the peoples, O God.
8Thou tellest my wanderings:
Put thou my tears into thy bottle;
Are they not in thy book?
9Then shall mine enemies turn back in the day that I call:
This I know, that God is for me.
10In God will I praise his word:
In the LORD will I praise his word.
11In God have I put my trust, I will not be afraid;
What can man do unto me?
12Thy vows are upon me, O God:
I will render thank offerings unto thee.
13For thou hast delivered my soul from death:
Hast thou not delivered my feet from falling?
That I may walk before God
In the light of the living.
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