< Psalms 55 >
1 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.
Unto the end, in verses, understanding for David. Hear, O God, my prayer, and despise not my supplication:
2 Pay attention! to me and answer me I am restless in complaint my and I am distraught.
Be attentive to me and hear me. I am grieved in my exercise; and am troubled,
3 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.
At the voice of the enemy, and at the tribulation of the sinner. For they have cast iniquities upon me: and in wrath they were troublesome to me.
4 Heart my it trembles within me and [the] terrors of death they have fallen on me.
My heart is troubled within me: and the fear of death is fallen upon me.
5 Fear and trembling it comes on me and it has covered me shuddering.
Fear and trembling are come upon me: and darkness hath covered me.
6 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.
And I said: Who will give me wings like a dove, and I will fly and be at rest?
7 Here! I want to be far away [surely] to flee I want to lodge in the wilderness (Selah)
Lo, I have gone far off flying away; and I abode in the wilderness.
8 I want to make haste a place of escape of me from a wind rushing from a storm.
I waited for him that hath saved me from pusillanimity of spirit, and a storm.
9 Confuse O Lord divide tongue their for I have seen violence and strife in the city.
Cast down, O Lord, and divide their tongues; for I have seen iniquity and contradiction in the city.
10 By day and night they go around it on walls its and wickedness and trouble [are] in midst its.
Day and night shall iniquity surround it upon its walls: and in the midst thereof are labour,
11 Destruction [are] in midst its and not it departs from public square its oppression and deceit.
And injustice. And usury and deceit have not departed from its streets.
12 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.
For if my enemy had reviled me, I would verily have borne with it. And if he that hated me had spoken great things against me, I would perhaps have hidden myself from him.
13 And you a man according to value my close friend my and acquaintance my.
But thou a man of one mind, my guide, and my familiar,
14 Who together we made sweet counsel in [the] house of God we walked about in a crowd.
Who didst take sweetmeats together with me: in the house of God we walked with consent.
15 (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 )
Let death come upon them, and let them go down alive into hell. For there is wickedness in their dwellings: in the midst of them. (Sheol )
16 I to God I will call out and Yahweh he will save me.
But I have cried to God: and the Lord will save me.
17 Evening and morning and noon I will complain and I may murmur and he heard voice my.
Evening and morning, and at noon I will speak and declare: and he shall hear my voice.
18 He will ransom in peace life my from battle to me for many [people] they are with me.
He shall redeem my soul in peace from them that draw near to me: for among many they were with me.
19 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.
God shall hear, and the Eternal shall humble them. For there is no change with them, and they have not feared God:
20 He stretched out hands his on allies his he violated covenant his.
He hath stretched forth his hand to repay. They have defiled his covenant,
21 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.
They are divided by the wrath Of his countenance, and his heart hath drawn near. His words are smoother than oil, and the same are darts.
22 Cast on Yahweh - burden your and he he will sustain you not he will permit for ever to shake to the righteous.
Cast thy care upon the Lord, and he shall sustain thee: he shall not suffer the just to waver for ever.
23 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.
But thou, O God, shalt bring them down into the pit of destruction. Bloody and deceitful men shall not live out half their days; but I will trust in thee, O Lord.