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/for to conduct in/on/with music Maskil to/for David to listen [emph?] God prayer my and not to conceal from supplication my

2 Attend to me, and answer me, I mourn in my (meditation) and make a noise,

to listen [emph?] to/for me and to answer me to roam in/on/with complaint my and to make noise

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.

from voice: sound enemy from face: because pressure wicked for to shake upon me evil: wickedness and in/on/with face: anger to hate me

4 My heart is pained within me, And terrors of death have fallen on me.

heart my to twist: tremble in/on/with entrails: among my and terror death to fall: fall upon me

5 Fear and trembling come to me, And horror covers me.

fear and trembling to come (in): come in/on/with me and to cover me shuddering

6 And I say, “Who gives to me a pinion as a dove?” I fly away and rest,

and to say who? to give: if only! to/for me wing like/as dove to fly and to dwell

7 Behold, I move far off, I lodge in a wilderness. (Selah)

behold to remove to wander to lodge in/on/with wilderness (Selah)

8 I hurry escape for myself, From a rushing wind, from a whirlwind.

to hasten escape to/for me from spirit: breath to rush from tempest

9 Swallow up, O Lord, divide their tongue, For I saw violence and strife in a city.

to swallow up Lord to divide tongue: language their for to see: see violence and strife in/on/with city

10 By day and by night they go around it, on its walls. Both iniquity and perverseness [are] in its midst,

by day and night to turn: surround her upon wall her and evil: wickedness and trouble in/on/with entrails: among her

11 Mischiefs [are] in its midst. Fraud and deceit do not depart from its street.

desire in/on/with entrails: among her and not to remove from street/plaza her oppression and deceit

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.

for not enemy to taunt me and to lift: bear not to hate me upon me to magnify and to hide from him

13 But you, a man—as my equal, My familiar friend, and my acquaintance.

and you(m. s.) human like/as valuation my tame my and to know my

14 When together we sweeten counsel, We walk into the house of God in company.

which together be sweet counsel in/on/with house: temple God to go: walk in/on/with throng

15 Desolations [are] on them, They go down [to] Sheol—alive, For wickedness [is] in their dwelling, in their midst. (Sheol h7585)

(to deceive death *Q(K)*) upon them to go down hell: Sheol alive for bad: evil in/on/with sojourning their in/on/with entrails: inner parts their (Sheol h7585)

16 I call to God, and YHWH saves me.

I to(wards) God to call: call to and LORD to save me

17 Evening, and morning, and noon, I meditate, and make a noise, and He hears my voice,

evening and morning and midday to muse and to roar and to hear: hear voice my

18 He has ransomed my soul in peace From him who is near to me, For with the multitude they were with me.

to ransom in/on/with peace: well-being soul my from battle to/for me for in/on/with many to be with me me

19 God hears and afflicts them, And He sits of old. (Selah) Because they have no changes, and do not fear God,

to hear: hear God and to afflict them and to dwell front: old (Selah) which nothing change to/for them and not to fear: revere God

20 He has sent forth his hands against his well-wishers, He has defiled his covenant.

to send: reach hand his in/on/with peace: friendship his to profane/begin: profane covenant his

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].

to smooth butter lip: word his and battle heart his be tender word his from oil and they(masc.) drawn sword

22 Cast on YHWH that which He has given you, And He sustains you, He does not permit the moving of the righteous forever.

to throw upon LORD burden your and he/she/it to sustain you not to give: allow to/for forever: enduring to shake to/for righteous

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 you(m. s.) God to go down them to/for well Pit: hell human blood and deceit not to divide day their and I to trust in/on/with you (questioned)