Psalms 59
1 TO THE OVERSEER. “DO NOT DESTROY.” A MIKTAM OF DAVID, IN SAUL’S SENDING, AND THEY WATCH THE HOUSE TO PUT HIM TO DEATH. Deliver me from my enemies, O my God, Set me on high from my withstanders.
For the end. Destroy not: by David for a memorial, when Saul sent, and watched his house to kill him. Deliver me from mine enemies, O God; and ransom me from those that rise up against me.
2 Deliver me from workers of iniquity, And save me from men of blood.
Deliver me from the workers of iniquity, and save me from bloody men.
3 For behold, they laid wait for my soul, Strong ones are assembled against me, Not my transgression nor my sin, O YHWH.
For, behold, they have hunted after my soul; violent men have set upon me: neither [is it] my iniquity, nor my sin, O Lord.
4 Without punishment they run and prepare themselves, Stir up to meet me, and see.
Without iniquity I ran and directed [my course aright]: awake to help me, and behold.
5 And You, YHWH, God of Hosts, God of Israel, Awake to inspect all the nations. Do not favor any treacherous dealers of iniquity. (Selah)
And you, Lord God of hosts, the God of Israel, draw near to visit all the heathen; pity not any that work iniquity. (Pause)
6 They return at evening, They make a noise like a dog, And go around the city.
They shall return at evening, and hunger like a dog, and go round about the city.
7 Behold, they belch out with their mouths, Swords [are] in their lips, for “Who hears?”
Behold, they shall utter a voice with their mouth, and a sword is in their lips; for who, [say they], has heard?
8 And You, O YHWH, laugh at them, You mock at all the nations.
But you, Lord, will laugh them to scorn; you will utterly set at nothing all the heathen.
9 O my Strength, to You I take heed, For God [is] my tower—the God of my kindness.
will keep my strength, [looking] to you; for you, O God, are my helper.
10 God goes before me, He causes me to look on my enemies.
[As for] my God, his mercy shall go before me: my God will show me [vengeance] on mine enemies.
11 Do not slay them, lest my people forget, Shake them by Your strength, And bring them down, O Lord our shield.
Slay them not, lest they forget your law; scatter them by your power; and bring them down, O Lord, my defender.
12 The sin of their mouth [is] a word of their lips, And they are captured in their pride, And they recount from the curse and lying.
[For] the sin of their mouth, [and] the word of their lips, let them be even taken in their pride.
13 Consume in fury, consume and they are not, And they know that God is ruling in Jacob, To the ends of the earth. (Selah)
And for [their] cursing and falsehood shall utter destruction be denounced: [they shall fall] by the wrath of utter destruction, and shall not be; so shall they know that the God of Jacob is Lord of the ends of the earth. (Pause)
14 And they return at evening, They make a noise like a dog, And they go around the city.
They shall return at evening, and be hungry as a dog, and go round about the city.
15 They wander for food, If they are not satisfied—then they murmur.
They shall be scattered hither and there for meat; and if they be not satisfied, they shall even murmur.
16 And I sing of Your strength, And at morning I sing of Your kindness, For You have been a tower to me, And a refuge for me in a day of adversity.
But I will sing to your strength, and in the morning will I exult [in] your mercy; for you have been my supporter, and my refuge in the day of mine affliction.
17 O my Strength, I sing praise to You, For God [is] my tower, the God of my kindness!
[You are] my helper; to you, my God, will I sing; you are my supporter, O my God, [and] my mercy.
