Psalms 55
1 TO THE OVERSEER. WITH STRINGED INSTRUMENTS. AN INSTRUCTION OF DAVID. Give ear, O God, [to] my prayer, And do not hide from my supplication.
To him that excelleth on Neginoth. A Psalme of David to give instruction. Heare my prayer, O God, and hide not thy selfe from my supplication.
2 Attend to me, and answer me, I mourn in my (meditation) and make a noise,
Hearken vnto me, and answere me: I mourne in my prayer, and make a noyse,
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.
For the voyce of the enemie, and for the vexation of ye wicked, because they haue brought iniquitie vpon me, and furiously hate me.
4 My heart is pained within me, And terrors of death have fallen on me.
Mine heart trembleth within mee, and the terrours of death are fallen vpon me.
5 Fear and trembling come to me, And horror covers me.
Feare and trembling are come vpon mee, and an horrible feare hath couered me.
6 And I say, “Who gives to me a pinion as a dove?” I fly away and rest,
And I said, Oh that I had wings like a doue: then would I flie away and rest.
7 Behold, I move far off, I lodge in a wilderness. (Selah)
Beholde, I woulde take my flight farre off, and lodge in the wildernes. (Selah)
8 I hurry escape for myself, From a rushing wind, from a whirlwind.
Hee would make haste for my deliuerance from the stormie winde and tempest.
9 Swallow up, O Lord, divide their tongue, For I saw violence and strife in a city.
Destroy, O Lord, and deuide their tongues: for I haue seene crueltie and strife in the citie.
10 By day and by night they go around it, on its walls. Both iniquity and perverseness [are] in its midst,
Day and night they goe about it vpon the walles thereof: both iniquitie and mischiefe are in the middes of it.
11 Mischiefs [are] in its midst. Fraud and deceit do not depart from its street.
Wickednes is in the middes thereof: deceit and guile depart not from her streetes.
12 For an enemy does not reproach me, or I bear [it], He who is hating me Has not magnified himself against me, Or I hide from him.
Surely mine enemie did not defame mee: for I could haue borne it: neither did mine aduersarie exalt himselfe against mee: for I would haue hid me from him.
13 But you, a man—as my equal, My familiar friend, and my acquaintance.
But it was thou, O man, euen my companion, my guide and my familiar:
14 When together we sweeten counsel, We walk into the house of God in company.
Which delited in consulting together, and went into the House of God as companions.
15 Desolations [are] on them, They go down [to] Sheol—alive, For wickedness [is] in their dwelling, in their midst. (Sheol h7585)
Let death sense vpon them: let them goe downe quicke into the graue: for wickednes is in their dwellings, euen in the middes of them. (Sheol h7585)
16 I call to God, and YHWH saves me.
But I will call vnto God, and the Lord will saue me.
17 Evening, and morning, and noon, I meditate, and make a noise, and He hears my voice,
Euening and morning, and at noone will I pray, and make a noyse, and he wil heare my voice.
18 He has ransomed my soul in peace From him who is near to me, For with the multitude they were with me.
He hath deliuered my soule in peace from the battel, that was against me: for many were with me.
19 God hears and afflicts them, And He sits of old. (Selah) Because they have no changes, and do not fear God,
God shall heare and afflict them, euen hee that reigneth of olde, (Selah) because they haue no changes, therefore they feare not God.
20 He has sent forth his hands against his well-wishers, He has defiled his covenant.
Hee layed his hande vpon such, as be at peace with him, and he brake his couenant.
21 His mouth has been sweeter than honey, And his heart [is] war! His words have been softer than oil, And they [are] drawn [swords].
The wordes of his mouth were softer then butter, yet warre was in his heart: his words were more gentle then oyle, yet they were swordes.
22 Cast on YHWH that which He has given you, And He sustains you, He does not permit the moving of the righteous forever.
Cast thy burden vpon the Lord, and hee shall nourish thee: he wil not suffer the righteous to fall for euer.
23 And You, O God, bring them down To a pit of destruction, Men of blood and deceit do not reach to half their days, And I trust in You!
And thou, O God, shalt bring them downe into the pitte of corruption: the bloudie, and deceitfull men shall not liue halfe their dayes: but I will trust in thee.
