Psalms 56

1 TO THE OVERSEER. [SET] ON “A SILENT DOVE FAR OFF.” A MIKTAM OF DAVID, IN THE PHILISTINES’ TAKING HOLD OF HIM IN GATH. Favor me, O God, for man swallowed me up, All the day fighting he oppresses me,

“To the chief musician upon Jonath-elem-rechokim, by David, a Michtham, when the Philistines seized him in Gath.” Be gracious unto me, O God; for man longeth to swallow me up; all the time he oppresseth me fighting.

2 My enemies have swallowed up all the day, For many [are] fighting against me, O Most High,

Those that regard me with envy long to swallow [me] up all the time; for many are they that fight against me, O thou Most High.

3 [In] the day I am afraid I am confident toward You.

The day [when] I am afraid, I will still trust in thee.

4 In God I praise His word, in God I have trusted, I do not fear what flesh does to me.

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

5 All the day they wrest my words, All their thoughts [are] for evil concerning me,

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

6 They assemble, they hide, they watch my heels, When they have expected my soul.

They come together in troops, they hide themselves, they are those that watch my heels, as though they hoped [to take] my soul.

7 They escape by iniquity, In anger put down the peoples, O God.

Because of their wrong-doing let me escape from them: in anger cast down the people, O God.

8 You have counted my wandering, You place my tear in Your bottle, Are they not in Your scroll?

My wanderings hast thou well numbered: put thou my tears into thy bottle; behold, they are numbered by thee.

9 Then turn back my enemies in the day I call. This I have known, that God [is] for me.

Then shall my enemies retire backward on the day when I call [on thee]: this I know—that God is for me.

10 In God I praise the word, In YHWH I praise the word.

In God will I praise the word: in the Lord will I praise the word.

11 In God I trusted, I do not fear what man does to me,

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

12 On me, O God, [are] Your vows, I repay thank-offerings to You.

Upon me, O God, [rest] thy vows: I will pay thanksgiving offerings unto thee.

13 For You have delivered my soul from death, Do You not [keep] my feet from falling? To habitually walk before God in the light of the living!

For thou hast delivered my soul from death—yea, behold, my feet from slipping, that I may walk before God in the light of the life.