Psalms 57
1 TO THE OVERSEER. “DO NOT DESTROY.” A MIKTAM OF DAVID, IN HIS FLEEING FROM THE FACE OF SAUL INTO A CAVE. Favor me, O God, favor me, For my soul is trusting in You, And I trust in the shadow of Your wings, Until the calamities pass over.
Unto the end, destroy not, for David, for an inscription of a title, when he fled from Saul into the cave. Have mercy on me, O God, have mercy on me: for my soul trusteth in thee. And in the shadow of thy wings will I hope, until iniquity pass away.
2 I call to God Most High, To God [who] is perfecting for me.
I will cry to God the most High; to God who hath done good to me.
3 He sends from the heavens, and saves me, He reproached [the one] who is panting after me. (Selah) God sends forth His kindness and His truth.
He hath sent from heaven and delivered me: he hath made them a reproach that trod upon me. God hath sent his mercy and his truth,
4 My soul [is] in the midst of lions, I lie down [among] flames—sons of men, Their teeth [are] a spear and arrows, And their tongue a sharp sword.
And he hath delivered my soul from the midst of the young lions. I slept troubled. The sons of men, whose teeth are weapons and arrows, and their tongue a sharp sword.
5 Be exalted above the heavens, O God, Your glory above all the earth.
Be thou exalted, O God, above the heavens, and thy glory above all the earth.
6 They have prepared a net for my steps, My soul has bowed down, They have dug a pit before me, They have fallen into its midst. (Selah)
They prepared a snare for my feet; and they bowed down my soul. They dug a pit before my face, and they are fallen into it.
7 My heart is prepared, O God, My heart is prepared, I sing and praise.
My heart is ready, O God, my heart is ready: I will Sing, and rehearse a psalm.
8 Awake, my glory, awake, stringed instrument and harp, I awake the morning dawn.
Arise, O my glory, arise psaltery and harp: I will arise early.
9 I thank You among the peoples, O Lord, I praise You among the nations.
I will give praise to thee, O Lord, among the people: I will sing a psalm to thee among the nations.
10 For Your kindness [is] great to the heavens, And Your truth to the clouds.
For thy mercy is magnified even to the heavens: and thy truth unto the clouds.
11 Be exalted above the heavens, O God. Your glory above all the earth!
Be thou exalted, O God, above the heavens: and thy glory above all the earth.
