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,

For the Chief Musician; set to Jonath elem rehokim. [A Psalm] of David: Michtam: when the Philistines took him in Gath. Be merciful unto me, O God; for man would swallow me up: all the day long he fighting oppresseth me.

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

Mine enemies would swallow me up all the day long: for they be many that fight proudly against me.

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

What time I am afraid, I will put my 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 I will praise his word: in God have I 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 long they wrest my words: all their thoughts are against me for evil.

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

They gather themselves together, they hide themselves, they mark my steps, even as they have waited for my soul.

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

Shall they escape by iniquity? in anger cast down the peoples, O God.

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

Thou tellest my wanderings: put thou my tears into thy bottle; are they not in thy book?

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

Then shall mine enemies turn back in the day that I call: 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 [his] word: in the LORD will I praise [his] 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.

Thy vows are upon me, O God: I will render thank 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: [hast thou] not [delivered] my feet from falling? that I may walk before God in the light of the living.