Psalms 55
1 To the chief Musician. On stringed instruments: an instruction. Of David. Give ear to my prayer, O God; and hide not thyself from my supplication.
To the choirmaster with stringed instruments a poem of David. Give ear to! O God prayer my and may not you hide yourself from supplication my.
2 Attend unto me, and answer me: I wander about in my plaint, and I moan aloud,
Pay attention! to me and answer me I am restless in complaint my and I am distraught.
3 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.
From [the] sound of an enemy because of [the] pressure of [the] wicked for they drop on me wickedness and in anger they are hostile to me.
4 My heart is writhing within me, and the terrors of death are fallen upon me.
Heart my it trembles within me and [the] terrors of death they have fallen on me.
5 Fear and trembling are come upon me, and horror hath overwhelmed me.
Fear and trembling it comes on me and it has covered me shuddering.
6 And I said, Oh that I had wings like a dove! I would fly away, and be at rest;
And I said who? will he give [will belong] to me wing[s] like dove I want to fly away and I want to settle down.
7 Behold, I would flee afar off, I would lodge in the wilderness; (Selah)
Here! I want to be far away [surely] to flee I want to lodge in the wilderness (Selah)
8 I would hasten my escape from the stormy wind, from the tempest.
I want to make haste a place of escape of me from a wind rushing from a storm.
9 Swallow [them] up, Lord; divide their tongue: for I have seen violence and strife in the city.
Confuse O Lord divide tongue their for I have seen violence and strife in the city.
10 Day and night they go about it upon the walls thereof; and iniquity and mischief are in the midst of it.
By day and night they go around it on walls its and wickedness and trouble [are] in midst its.
11 Perversities are in the midst thereof; and oppression and deceit depart not from its streets.
Destruction [are] in midst its and not it departs from public square its oppression and deceit.
12 For it is not an enemy that hath reproached me — then could I have borne it; neither is it he that hateth me that hath magnified [himself] against me — then would I have hidden myself from him;
For not an enemy he taunts me and I may endure not [one who] hates me on me he magnified himself then I may hide myself from him.
13 But it was thou, a man mine equal, mine intimate, my familiar friend. ...
And you a man according to value my close friend my and acquaintance my.
14 We who held sweet intercourse together. To the house of God we walked amid the throng.
Who together we made sweet counsel in [the] house of God we walked about in a crowd.
15 Let death seize upon them, let them go down alive into Sheol. For wickedness is in their dwellings, in their midst. (Sheol h7585)
(May it deceive death - *Q(K)*) on them may they go down Sheol alive for evil deeds [are] in sojourning-place their in inner being their. (Sheol h7585)
16 As for me, unto God will I call; and Jehovah will save me.
I to God I will call out and Yahweh he will save me.
17 Evening, and morning, and at noon, will I pray and moan aloud; and he will hear my voice.
Evening and morning and noon I will complain and I may murmur and he heard voice my.
18 He hath redeemed my soul in peace from the battle against me: for there were many about me.
He will ransom in peace life my from battle to me for many [people] they are with me.
19 God will hear, and afflict them: he that is seated of old, (Selah) ...because there is no change in them, and they fear not God.
He will hear - God - and he will answer them and [the one who] sits antiquity (Selah) whom not changes [belong] to them and not they fear God.
20 He hath put forth his hands against such as are at peace with him; he hath profaned his covenant.
He stretched out hands his on allies his he violated covenant his.
21 Smooth were the milky [words] of his mouth, but his heart was war; his words were softer than oil, yet are they drawn swords.
They were smooth - [the] creamy things of mouth his and [was] war heart his they were soft words his more than oil and they [were] drawn swords.
22 Cast thy burden upon Jehovah, and he will sustain thee: he will never suffer the righteous to be moved.
Cast on Yahweh - burden your and he he will sustain you not he will permit for ever to shake to the righteous.
23 And thou, O God, wilt bring them down into the pit of destruction: bloody and deceitful men shall not live out half their days. But as for me, I will confide in thee.
And you O God - you will bring down them - to [the] pit of [the] pit people of blood and deceit not they will divide in half days their and I I will trust in you.
