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         <div class="label">55</div><div class="s"><span class="heading">To the Chief Musician; with stringed instruments. A skillful song, {or} a didactic {or} reflective poem, of David.</span></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v1" data-usfm="PSA.55.1"><span class="label">1</span><span class="content"> LISTEN TO my prayer, O God, and hide not Yourself from my supplication!</span></span></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v2" data-usfm="PSA.55.2"><span class="label">2</span><span class="content"> Attend to me and answer me; I am restless </span><span class="it"><span class="content">and</span></span><span class="content"> distraught in my complaint and must moan</span></span></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v3" data-usfm="PSA.55.3"><span class="label">3</span><span class="content"> [And I am distracted] at the noise of the enemy, because of the oppression </span><span class="it"><span class="content">and</span></span><span class="content"> threats of the wicked; for they would cast trouble upon me, and in wrath they persecute me.</span></span></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v4" data-usfm="PSA.55.4"><span class="label">4</span><span class="content"> My heart is grievously pained within me, and the terrors of death have fallen upon me.</span></span></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v5" data-usfm="PSA.55.5"><span class="label">5</span><span class="content"> Fear and trembling have come upon me; horror </span><span class="it"><span class="content">and</span></span><span class="content"> fright have overwhelmed me.</span></span></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v6" data-usfm="PSA.55.6"><span class="label">6</span><span class="content"> And I say, Oh, that I had wings like a dove! I would fly away and be at rest.</span></span></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v7" data-usfm="PSA.55.7"><span class="label">7</span><span class="content"> Yes, I would wander far away, I would lodge in the wilderness. Selah [pause, and calmly think of that]!</span></span></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v8" data-usfm="PSA.55.8"><span class="label">8</span><span class="content"> I would hasten to escape </span><span class="it"><span class="content">and</span></span><span class="content"> to find a shelter from the stormy wind and tempest.</span></span></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v9" data-usfm="PSA.55.9"><span class="label">9</span><span class="content"> Destroy [their schemes], O Lord, confuse their tongues, for I have seen violence and strife in the city.</span></span></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v10" data-usfm="PSA.55.10"><span class="label">10</span><span class="content"> Day and night they go about on its walls; iniquity and mischief are in its midst.</span></span></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v11" data-usfm="PSA.55.11"><span class="label">11</span><span class="content"> Violence </span><span class="it"><span class="content">and</span></span><span class="content"> ruin are within it; fraud and guile do not depart from its streets </span><span class="it"><span class="content">and</span></span><span class="content"> marketplaces.</span></span></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v12" data-usfm="PSA.55.12"><span class="label">12</span><span class="content"> For it is not an enemy who reproaches </span><span class="it"><span class="content">and</span></span><span class="content"> taunts me&#8211;then I might bear it; nor is it one who has hated me who insolently vaunts himself against me&#8211;then I might hide from him.</span></span></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v13" data-usfm="PSA.55.13"><span class="label">13</span><span class="content"> But it was you, a man my equal, my companion and my familiar friend.</span></span></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v14" data-usfm="PSA.55.14"><span class="label">14</span><span class="content"> We had sweet fellowship together and used to walk to the house of God in company.</span></span></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v15" data-usfm="PSA.55.15"><span class="label">15</span><span class="content"> Let desolations </span><span class="it"><span class="content">and</span></span><span class="content"> death come suddenly upon them; let them go down alive to Sheol (the place of the dead), for evils are in their habitations, in their hearts, </span><span class="it"><span class="content">and</span></span><span class="content"> their inmost part.</span></span></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v16" data-usfm="PSA.55.16"><span class="label">16</span><span class="content"> As for me, I will call upon God, and the Lord will save me.</span></span></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v17" data-usfm="PSA.55.17"><span class="label">17</span><span class="content"> Evening and morning and at noon will I utter my complaint and moan </span><span class="it"><span class="content">and</span></span><span class="content"> sigh, and He will hear my voice.</span></span></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v18" data-usfm="PSA.55.18"><span class="label">18</span><span class="content"> He has redeemed my life in peace from the battle that was against me [so that none came near me], for they were many who strove with me.</span></span></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v19" data-usfm="PSA.55.19"><span class="label">19</span><span class="content"> God will hear and humble them, even He Who abides of old&#8211;Selah [pause, and calmly think of that]!&#8211;because in them there has been no change [of heart], and they do not fear, revere, </span><span class="it"><span class="content">and</span></span><span class="content"> worship God.</span></span></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v20" data-usfm="PSA.55.20"><span class="label">20</span><span class="content"> [My companion] has put forth his hands against those who were at peace with him; he has broken </span><span class="it"><span class="content">and</span></span><span class="content"> profaned his agreement [of friendship and loyalty].</span></span></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v21" data-usfm="PSA.55.21"><span class="label">21</span><span class="content"> The words of his mouth were smoother than cream </span><span class="it"><span class="content">or</span></span><span class="content"> butter, but war was in his heart; his words were softer than oil, yet they were drawn swords.</span></span></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v22" data-usfm="PSA.55.22"><span class="label">22</span><span class="content"> Cast your burden on the Lord [releasing the weight of it] and He will sustain you; He will never allow the [consistently] righteous to be moved (made to slip, fall, or fail). [I Pet. 5:7.]</span></span></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v23" data-usfm="PSA.55.23"><span class="label">23</span><span class="content"> But You, O God, will bring down the wicked into the pit of destruction; men of blood and treachery shall not live out half their days. But I will trust in, lean on, </span><span class="it"><span class="content">and</span></span><span class="content"> confidently rely on You.</span></span></div>
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1954, 1958, 1962, 1964, 1965, 1987 by The Lockman Foundation

LISTEN TO my prayer, O God, and hide not Yourself from my supplication!
Attend to me and answer me; I am restless and distraught in my complaint and must moan
[And I am distracted] at the noise of the enemy, because of the oppression and threats of the wicked; for they would cast trouble upon me, and in wrath they persecute me.
My heart is grievously pained within me, and the terrors of death have fallen upon me.
Fear and trembling have come upon me; horror and fright have overwhelmed me.
And I say, Oh, that I had wings like a dove! I would fly away and be at rest.
Yes, I would wander far away, I would lodge in the wilderness. Selah [pause, and calmly think of that]!
I would hasten to escape and to find a shelter from the stormy wind and tempest.
Destroy [their schemes], O Lord, confuse their tongues, for I have seen violence and strife in the city.
Day and night they go about on its walls; iniquity and mischief are in its midst.
Violence and ruin are within it; fraud and guile do not depart from its streets and marketplaces.
For it is not an enemy who reproaches and taunts me–then I might bear it; nor is it one who has hated me who insolently vaunts himself against me–then I might hide from him.
But it was you, a man my equal, my companion and my familiar friend.
We had sweet fellowship together and used to walk to the house of God in company.
Let desolations and death come suddenly upon them; let them go down alive to Sheol (the place of the dead), for evils are in their habitations, in their hearts, and their inmost part.
As for me, I will call upon God, and the Lord will save me.
Evening and morning and at noon will I utter my complaint and moan and sigh, and He will hear my voice.
He has redeemed my life in peace from the battle that was against me [so that none came near me], for they were many who strove with me.
God will hear and humble them, even He Who abides of old–Selah [pause, and calmly think of that]!–because in them there has been no change [of heart], and they do not fear, revere, and worship God.
[My companion] has put forth his hands against those who were at peace with him; he has broken and profaned his agreement [of friendship and loyalty].
The words of his mouth were smoother than cream or butter, but war was in his heart; his words were softer than oil, yet they were drawn swords.
Cast your burden on the Lord [releasing the weight of it] and He will sustain you; He will never allow the [consistently] righteous to be moved (made to slip, fall, or fail). [I Pet. 5:7.]
But You, O God, will bring down the wicked into the pit of destruction; men of blood and treachery shall not live out half their days. But I will trust in, lean on, and confidently rely on You.

සවන් දෙන්න Psalm 55