Psalms 56

1 Unto the end. For the people who have become far removed from the Sacred. Of David, with the inscription of a title, when the Philistines held him in Gath. Have mercy on me, O God, because man has trampled over me. All day long, he has afflicted me by fighting against me.

For the Chief Musician; set to Jonath elem rehokim. [A Psalm] of David: Michtam: when the Philistines took him in Gath. Be merciful unto me, O God; for man would swallow me up: all the day long he fighting oppresseth me.

2 My enemies have trampled over me all day long. For those who make war against me are many.

Mine enemies would swallow me up all the day long: for they be many that fight proudly against me.

3 From the height of the day, I will be afraid. But truly, I will hope in you.

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

4 In God, I will praise my words. In God, I have put my trust. I will not fear what flesh can do to me.

In God I will praise his word: in God have I put my trust, I will not be afraid; what can flesh do unto me?

5 All day long, they curse my words. All their intentions are for evil against me.

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

6 They will dwell and hide themselves. They will watch my heel, just as they waited for my soul;

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

7 because of this, nothing will save them. In your anger, you will crush the people.

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

8 O God, I have announced my life to you. You have placed my tears in your sight, and even in your promise.

Thou tellest my wanderings: put thou my tears into thy bottle; are they not in thy book?

9 Then my enemies will be turned back. On whatever day that I call upon you, behold, I know that you are my God.

Then shall mine enemies turn back in the day that I call: this I know, that God is for me.

10 In God, I will praise the word. In the Lord, I will praise his speech.

In God will I praise [his] word: in the LORD will I praise [his] word.

11 In God, I have hoped. I will not fear what man can do to me.

In God have I put my trust, I will not be afraid; what can man do unto me?

12 My vows to you, O God, are in me. I will repay them. Praises be to you.

Thy vows are upon me, O God: I will render thank offerings unto thee.

13 For you have rescued my soul from death and my feet from slipping, so that I may be pleasing in the sight of God, in the light of the living.

For 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.