Psalms:55 Parallel Bible - YLT ASV |
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| Psalms 55:1 | To the Overseer with stringed instruments. An instruction, by David. Give ear, O God, [to] my prayer, And hide not from my supplication. | Give ear to my prayer, O God; And hide not thyself from my supplication. |
| Psalms 55:2 | Attend to me, and answer me, I mourn in my meditation, and make a noise, | Attend unto me, and answer me: I am restless in my complaint, and moan, |
| Psalms 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. | 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 pained within me, And terrors of death have fallen on me. | My heart is sore pained within me: And the terrors of death are fallen upon me. |
| Psalms 55:5 | Fear and trembling come in to me, And horror doth cover me. | Fearfulness and trembling are come upon me, And horror hath overwhelmed me. |
| Psalms 55:6 | And I say, `Who doth give to me a pinion as a dove? I fly away and rest, | And I said, Oh that I had wings like a dove! Then would I fly away, and be at rest. |
| Psalms 55:7 | Lo, I move far off, I lodge in a wilderness. Selah. | Lo, then would I wander far off, I would lodge in the wilderness. Selah |
| Psalms 55:8 | I hasten escape for myself, From a rushing wind, from a whirlwind. | I would haste me to a shelter From the stormy wind and tempest. |
| Psalms 55:9 | Swallow up, O Lord, divide their tongue, For I saw violence and strife in a city. | Destroy, O Lord, [and] divide their tongue; For I have seen violence and strife in the city. |
| Psalms 55:10 | By day and by night they go round it, on its walls. Both iniquity and perverseness [are] in its midst, | Day and night they go about it upon the walls thereof: Iniquity also and mischief are in the midst of it. |
| Psalms 55:11 | Mischiefs [are] in its midst. Fraud and deceit depart not from its street. | Wickedness is in the midst thereof: Oppression and guile depart not from its streets. |
| Psalms 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. | 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 thou, a man as mine equal, My familiar friend, and mine acquaintance. | But it was thou, a man mine equal, My companion, and my familiar friend. |
| Psalms 55:14 | When together we sweeten counsel, Into the house of God we walk in company. | We took sweet counsel together; We walked in the house of God with the throng. |
| Psalms 55:15 | Desolations [are] upon them, They go down [to] Sheol alive, For wickedness [is] in their dwelling, in their midst. | 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 | I to God I call, and Jehovah saveth me. | As for me, I will call upon God; And Jehovah will save me. |
| Psalms 55:17 | Evening, and morning, and noon, I meditate, and make a noise, and He heareth my voice, | Evening, and morning, and at noonday, will I complain, and moan; And he will hear my voice. |
| Psalms 55:18 | He hath ransomed in peace my soul From him who is near to me, For with the multitude they were with 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 doth hear and afflict them, And He sitteth of old. Selah. Because they have no changes, and fear not 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 hath sent forth his hands against his well-wishers, He hath polluted his covenant. | He hath put forth his hands against such as were at peace with him: He hath profaned his covenant. |
| Psalms 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]. | 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 | 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. | Cast thy burden upon Jehovah, and he will sustain thee: He will never suffer the righteous to be moved. |
| Psalms 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 I do trust in Thee! | 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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