Psalms 55
1 To the Chief Musician: with stringed Instruments. A Psalm of Instruction, of David. Give ear, O God, to my prayer, And do not hide thyself from my supplication:
To the choirmaster with stringed instruments a poem of David. Give ear to! O God prayer my and may not you hide yourself from supplication my.
2 Attend unto me, and answer me, I may ramble in my complaining, And be driven to and fro—
Pay attention! to me and answer me I am restless in complaint my and I am distraught.
3 Because of the noise of the enemy, By reason of the oppression of the lawless one, For they would let trouble drop upon me, And, in anger, would they entrap me.
From [the] sound of an enemy because of [the] pressure of [the] wicked for they drop on me wickedness and in anger they are hostile to me.
4 My heart, would writhe within me, And, the terrors of Death, have fallen upon me:
Heart my it trembles within me and [the] terrors of death they have fallen on me.
5 Fear and trembling, would enter me, And there would have overwhelmed me—a horror!
Fear and trembling it comes on me and it has covered me shuddering.
6 Then I said—Oh that there were given me a pinion, like a dove, I would fly away and be at rest:
And I said who? will he give [will belong] to me wing[s] like dove I want to fly away and I want to settle down.
7 Lo! I would take a distant flight, I would tarry in the wilderness. (Selah)
Here! I want to be far away [surely] to flee I want to lodge in the wilderness (Selah)
8 I would hasten mine escape, From rushing wind, from storm.
I want to make haste a place of escape of me from a wind rushing from a storm.
9 Confuse, O My Lord, divide their speech, For I have seen violence and contention in the city;
Confuse O Lord divide tongue their for I have seen violence and strife in the city.
10 Day and night, they go round her, upon her walls, And, trouble and misery, are in her midst;
By day and night they go around it on walls its and wickedness and trouble [are] in midst its.
11 Engulfing ruin, is in her midst, And there depart not from her broadway, oppression and deceit.
Destruction [are] in midst its and not it departs from public square its oppression and deceit.
12 For it is, not an enemy, that reproacheth me, Or I could bear it, —Not one that hath hated me, who, against me, hath magnified himself, Or I might hide myself from him;
For not an enemy he taunts me and I may endure not [one who] hates me on me he magnified himself then I may hide myself from him.
13 But it is, thou, a man esteemed as mine equal, mine associate, and mine acquaintance;
And you a man according to value my close friend my and acquaintance my.
14 So that together have we been wont to find sweetness in counsel, In the house of God, used we to walk in the throng.
Who together we made sweet counsel in [the] house of God we walked about in a crowd.
15 Desolations on them! Let them go down into hades alive, For, wicked doings, are at home within them. (Sheol h7585)
(May it deceive death - *Q(K)*) on them may they go down Sheol alive for evil deeds [are] in sojourning-place their in inner being their. (Sheol h7585)
16 I, unto God, will cry, —And, Yahweh, will save me.
I to God I will call out and Yahweh he will save me.
17 At evening and morning and high noon, have I been wont to lament and complain, And he hath heard my voice!
Evening and morning and noon I will complain and I may murmur and he heard voice my.
18 He hath completely redeemed my soul, out of the attack upon me, For, in multitudes, were they [in conflict] with me.
He will ransom in peace life my from battle to me for many [people] they are with me.
19 GOD will hear, Yea He will humble them who aforetime sat [enthroned]. (Selah) With whom are no changings, Neither have they revered God.
He will hear - God - and he will answer them and [the one who] sits antiquity (Selah) whom not changes [belong] to them and not they fear God.
20 He hath thrust forth his hands, against them he was wont to salute, he hath violated his covenant;
He stretched out hands his on allies his he violated covenant his.
21 Smoother than curds, were [the words of] his mouth, But, war, was [in] his heart, —Softer his words than oil, Yet, they, were drawn swords!
They were smooth - [the] creamy things of mouth his and [was] war heart his they were soft words his more than oil and they [were] drawn swords.
22 Cast upon Yahweh thy lot, and, he, will sustain thee: He will not suffer, to times age-abiding, the righteous one to be shaken.
Cast on Yahweh - burden your and he he will sustain you not he will permit for ever to shake to the righteous.
23 But, thou, O God, wilt bring them down to the pit of destruction, Men of bloodshed and deceit, shall not live out half their days; But, I, will trust in thee.
And you O God - you will bring down them - to [the] pit of [the] pit people of blood and deceit not they will divide in half days their and I I will trust in you.
