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.
God, save me from my enemies! Protect me from those who want to attack me!
2 Deliver me from workers of iniquity, And save me from men of blood.
Rescue me from men who want to do what is wicked, men who are murderers!
3 For behold, they laid wait for my soul, Strong ones are assembled against me, Not my transgression nor my sin, O YHWH.
Look! They are waiting to kill me! Fierce men have gathered to assault me. Yahweh, they are doing that even though I have not done what is wrong!
4 Without punishment they run and prepare themselves, Stir up to meet me, and see.
It is not because I have committed any sin [against them] that they run and get ready to attack me.
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)
Yahweh my God, commander of the armies of heaven, the one we Israelis [worship], arise and punish the [ungodly/heathen people of] all the nations; do not be merciful to those [wicked people] who have (acted treacherously toward/secretly planned to harm) us.
6 They return at evening, They make a noise like a dog, And go around the city.
They return each evening, snarling like vicious dogs [SIM] as they prowl around this city.
7 Behold, they belch out with their mouths, Swords [are] in their lips, for “Who hears?”
They loudly say terrible things; they say [MTY] many things that [injure people like] [MET] swords do, but they think, “No one will [RHQ] hear us!”
8 And You, O YHWH, laugh at them, You mock at all the nations.
But Yahweh, you laugh at them. You (scoff at/ridicule) the [people of the pagan] nations.
9 O my Strength, to You I take heed, For God [is] my tower—the God of my kindness.
God, I have confidence in you because you are very strong; you are my refuge.
10 God goes before me, He causes me to look on my enemies.
Because you love me, you will come to save me; you will allow me to watch while you defeat my enemies.
11 Do not slay them, lest my people forget, Shake them by Your strength, And bring them down, O Lord our shield.
But do not kill them [immediately] in order that my people will not forget [how you punished them]! [Instead], Lord, [you who are like a] shield [that protects us] [MET], scatter them by your power, and [then] defeat them.
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.
Because what they say [MTY] is sinful, allow them to be trapped for being proud. Because they are [always] cursing and telling lies,
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)
because you are angry, get rid of them; destroy them completely in order that people will know that you rule over us, your Israeli people, and that you rule over all the earth.
14 And they return at evening, They make a noise like a dog, And they go around the city.
My enemies return each evening, snarling like [vicious] dogs as they prowl around this city.
15 They wander for food, If they are not satisfied—then they murmur.
They roam around, searching for food; and if they do not find enough, they growl.
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 [as for me], I will sing about your power; [every] morning I will sing joyfully about your faithfully loving [us]. I will sing about how you protected me when I was [very] distressed.
17 O my Strength, I sing praise to You, For God [is] my tower, the God of my kindness!
God, you are the one who enables me to be strong; you are my refuge; you faithfully love me.
