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.
“For the leader of the music. To be sung on stringed instruments. A psalm of David.” Give ear to my prayer, O God! Hide not thyself from my supplication!
2 Pay attention! to me and answer me I am restless in complaint my and I am distraught.
Attend unto me, and hear me! I wander about mourning and wailing,
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.
On account of the clamors of the enemy, On account of the violence of the wicked. For they bring evil upon me, And in wrath set themselves against me.
4 Heart my it trembles within me and [the] terrors of death they have fallen on me.
My heart trembleth in my bosom, And the terrors of death have fallen upon me.
5 Fear and trembling it comes on me and it has covered me shuddering.
Fear and trembling have seized me, And horror hath overwhelmed 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.
Then I say, O that I had wings like a dove! For then would I fly away, and be at rest.
7 Here! I want to be far away [surely] to flee I want to lodge in the wilderness (Selah)
Behold, I would wander far away, And take up my abode in a wilderness. (Pause)
8 I want to make haste a place of escape of me from a wind rushing from a storm.
I would hasten away to a shelter From the rushing wind and tempest.
9 Confuse O Lord divide tongue their for I have seen violence and strife in the city.
Confound, O Lord! divide their counsels! For I behold violence and strife 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 do these go about its walls; In the midst of it are iniquity and mischief.
11 Destruction [are] in midst its and not it departs from public square its oppression and deceit.
Wickedness is in the midst of it; Oppression and fraud depart not 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.
It was not an enemy that reviled me, Then I could have borne it; Nor one that hated me, who rose up against me; From him I could have hid myself.
13 And you a man according to value my close friend my and acquaintance my.
But it was thou, a man my equal, My friend, and my acquaintance.
14 Who together we made sweet counsel in [the] house of God we walked about in a crowd.
We held sweet converse together, And walked to the house of God in company.
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 h7585)
May sudden death seize upon them! May they go down to the underworld alive! For wickedness is in their dwellings, in the midst of them. (Sheol h7585)
16 I to God I will call out and Yahweh he will save me.
As for me, I will call upon God, And Jehovah will save me.
17 Evening and morning and noon I will complain and I may murmur and he heard voice my.
At evening, at morn, and at noon I mourn and sigh, And he will hear my voice.
18 He will ransom in peace life my from battle to me for many [people] they are with me.
He will deliver me in peace from my conflict; For many have risen up against 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 will hear me, and bring them down, —He that hath been judge of old. (Pause) Because they have no changes, Therefore they fear not God.
20 He stretched out hands his on allies his he violated covenant his.
They lift up their hands against their friend, And break their covenant with him.
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.
Their speech was softer than butter, But war was in their heart; Their words were smoother than oil, Yet were they drawn swords.
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 burden upon the LORD, and he will sustain thee; He will never suffer the righteous to fall!”
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.
Yea, thou, O God! wilt bring them down into the lowest pit! Bloody and deceitful men shall not live out half their days. But I will trust in thee!
