Psalms 56

1 Be merciful to me, O God: for man would swallow me up; he fighting daily oppresses me.

For the leader. On jonath elem rehokim. Of David. A michtam, when the Philistines seized him in Gath. O God, be gracious to me, for people trample upon me, all the day righting and pressing me.

2 My enemies would daily swallow me up: for they be many that fight against me, O you most High.

All the day enemies trample me; many there be who contend with me bitterly.

3 What time I am afraid, I will trust in you.

In the day of my terror I trust in you.

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

In God I maintain my cause, in God I fearlessly trust. What can flesh do to me?

5 Every day they wrest my words: all their thoughts are against me for evil.

They torture me all the day, they ceaselessly plan to hurt me,

6 They gather themselves together, they hide themselves, they mark my steps, when they wait for my soul.

banded together in secret, watching my every step, as those who hope for my death.

7 Shall they escape by iniquity? in your anger cast down the people, O God.

Pay them out for their sin, O God, hurl down the strong in your anger.

8 You tell my wanderings: put you my tears into your bottle: are they not in your book?

You yourself count my wanderings. Put in your bottle my tears are they not in your book?

9 When I cry to you, then shall my enemies turn back: this I know; for God is for me.

Then shall my foes be turned back in the day that I call. Of this I am sure, because God is for me.

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

In God I maintain my cause, in the Lord I maintain my cause.

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

In God I fearlessly trust, what can people do to me?

12 Your vows are on me, O God: I will render praises to you.

Your vows are upon me, O God, I will render thank-offerings to you;

13 For you have delivered my soul from death: will not you deliver my feet from falling, that I may walk before God in the light of the living?

because you have saved me from death, my feet from stumbling, to the end that I walk before God in the light of the living.