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| Psalms 55:1 | <To the chief music-maker, on Neginoth. Maschil. Of David.> Give hearing to my prayer, O God; and let not your ear be shut against my request. | Give ear to my prayer, O God; And hide not thyself from my supplication. |
| Psalms 55:2 | Give thought to me, and let my prayer be answered: I have been made low in sorrow; | Attend unto me, and answer me: I am restless in my complaint, and moan, |
| Psalms 55:3 | I am troubled because of the voice of the cruel ones, because of the loud cry of the evil-doers; for they put a weight of evil on me, and they are cruel in their hate for me. | Because of the voice of the enemy, Because of the oppression of the wicked; For they cast iniquity upon me, And in anger they persecute me. |
| Psalms 55:4 | My heart is deeply wounded, and the fear of death has come on me. | My heart is sore pained within me: And the terrors of death are fallen upon me. |
| Psalms 55:5 | Fear and shaking have come over me, with deep fear I am covered. | Fearfulness and trembling are come upon me, And horror hath overwhelmed me. |
| Psalms 55:6 | And I said, If only I had wings like a dove! for then I would go in flight from here and be at rest. | And I said, Oh that I had wings like a dove! Then would I fly away, and be at rest. |
| Psalms 55:7 | I would go wandering far away, living in the waste land. (Selah.) | Lo, then would I wander far off, I would lodge in the wilderness. Selah |
| Psalms 55:8 | I would quickly take cover from the driving storm and from the violent wind. | I would haste me to a shelter From the stormy wind and tempest. |
| Psalms 55:9 | Send destruction on them, O Lord, make a division of tongues among them: for I have seen fighting and violent acts in the town. | Destroy, O Lord, [and] divide their tongue; For I have seen violence and strife in the city. |
| Psalms 55:10 | By day and night they go round the town, on the walls; trouble and sorrow are in the heart of it. | Day and night they go about it upon the walls thereof: Iniquity also and mischief are in the midst of it. |
| Psalms 55:11 | Evil is there; cruel rule and deceit are ever in the streets. | Wickedness is in the midst thereof: Oppression and guile depart not from its streets. |
| Psalms 55:12 | For it was not my hater who said evil of me; that would have been no grief to me; it was not one outside the number of my friends who made himself strong against me, or I would have kept myself from him in a secret place; | For it was not an enemy that reproached me; Then I could have borne it: Neither was it he that hated me that did magnify himself against me; Then I would have hid myself from him: |
| Psalms 55:13 | But it was you, my equal, my guide, my well-loved friend. | But it was thou, a man mine equal, My companion, and my familiar friend. |
| Psalms 55:14 | We had loving talk together, and went to the house of God in company. | We took sweet counsel together; We walked in the house of God with the throng. |
| Psalms 55:15 | Let the hand of death come on them suddenly, and let them go down living into the underworld; because evil is in their houses and in their hearts. | Let death come suddenly upon them, Let them go down alive into Sheol; For wickedness is in their dwelling, in the midst of them. |
| Psalms 55:16 | As for me, I will make my prayer to God, and he will be my saviour. | As for me, I will call upon God; And Jehovah will save me. |
| Psalms 55:17 | In the evening and in the morning and in the middle of the day I will make my prayer with sounds of grief; and my voice will come to his ears. | Evening, and morning, and at noonday, will I complain, and moan; And he will hear my voice. |
| Psalms 55:18 | He has taken my soul away from the attack which was made against me, and given it peace; for great numbers were against me. | He hath redeemed my soul in peace from the battle that was against me; For they were many [that strove] with me. |
| Psalms 55:19 | God will give thought to me; he who from early times is strong will send pain and trouble on them. (Selah.) Because they are unchanged, they have no fear of God. | God will hear, and answer them, Even he that abideth of old, Selah [The men] who have no changes, And who fear not God. |
| Psalms 55:20 | He has put out his hand against those who were at peace with him; he has not kept his agreement. | He hath put forth his hands against such as were at peace with him: He hath profaned his covenant. |
| Psalms 55:21 | The words of his mouth were smoother than butter, but war was in his heart; his words were softer than oil, but they were sharp swords. | His mouth was smooth as butter, But his heart was war: His words were softer than oil, Yet were they drawn swords. |
| Psalms 55:22 | Put your cares on the Lord, and he will be your support; he will not let the upright man be moved. | Cast thy burden upon Jehovah, and he will sustain thee: He will never suffer the righteous to be moved. |
| Psalms 55:23 | But you, O God, will send them down into the underworld; the cruel and the false will be cut off before half their days are ended; but I will have faith in you. | But thou, O God, wilt bring them down into the pit of destruction: Bloodthirsty and deceitful men shall not live out half their days; But I will trust in thee. Psalm 56 For the Chief Musician; set to Jonath elem rehokim. [A Psalm] of David. Michtam: when the Philistines took him in Gath. |
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