Psalms 56

1 Be merciful to me, O God, for man would swallow me up. Fighting all the day long he oppresses me.

TO THE OVERSEER. [SET] ON “A SILENT DOVE FAR OFF.” A MIKTAM OF DAVID, IN THE PHILISTINES’ TAKING HOLD OF HIM IN GATH. Favor me, O God, for man swallowed me up, All the day fighting he oppresses me,

2 My enemies would swallow me up all the day long, for they are many who fight proudly against me.

My enemies have swallowed up all the day, For many [are] fighting against me, O Most High,

3 What time I am afraid, I will put my trust in thee.

[In] the day I am afraid I am confident toward You.

4 In God I will praise his word. In God I have put my trust. I will not be afraid. What can flesh do to me?

In God I praise His word, in God I have trusted, I do not fear what flesh does to me.

5 All the day long they wrest my words. All their thoughts are against me for evil.

All the day they wrest my words, All their thoughts [are] for evil concerning me,

6 They gather themselves together. They hide themselves. They mark my steps, even as they have waited for my soul.

They assemble, they hide, they watch my heels, When they have expected my soul.

7 Shall they escape by iniquity? In anger cast down the peoples, O God.

They escape by iniquity, In anger put down the peoples, O God.

8 Thou number my wanderings. Put thou my tears into thy bottle. Are they not in thy book?

You have counted my wandering, You place my tear in Your bottle, Are they not in Your scroll?

9 Then shall my enemies turn back in the day that I call. This I know, that God is for me.

Then turn back my enemies in the day I call. This I have known, that God [is] for me.

10 In God I will praise his word. In Jehovah I will praise his word.

In God I praise the word, In YHWH I praise the word.

11 In God I have put my trust. I will not be afraid. What can man do to me?

In God I trusted, I do not fear what man does to me,

12 Thy vows are upon me, O God. I will render thank offerings to thee.

On me, O God, [are] Your vows, I repay thank-offerings to You.

13 For thou have delivered my soul from death, and my feet from falling, that I may walk before God in the light of the living.

For You have delivered my soul from death, Do You not [keep] my feet from falling? To habitually walk before God in the light of the living!