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.
To the chief Musician on Neginoth, Maschil, [A Psalm] of David. Give ear to my prayer, O God; and 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 to me, and hear me: I mourn in my complaint, and make a noise;
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.
Because of the voice of the enemy, because of the oppression of the wicked: for they cast iniquity upon me, and in wrath they hate me.
4 Heart my it trembles within me and [the] terrors of death they have fallen on me.
My heart is severely pained within me: and the terrors of death have fallen upon me.
5 Fear and trembling it comes on me and it has covered me shuddering.
Fearfulness and trembling have come upon 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.
And I said, O that I had wings like a dove! [for then] I would 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)
Lo, [then] I would wander far off, [and] remain in the wilderness. (Selah)
8 I want to make haste a place of escape of me from a wind rushing from a storm.
I would hasten my escape from the windy storm [and] tempest.
9 Confuse O Lord divide tongue their for I have seen violence and strife in the city.
Destroy, O LORD, [and] divide their tongues: for I have seen 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 they go about it upon its walls: mischief also and sorrow [are] in the midst of it.
11 Destruction [are] in midst its and not it departs from public square its oppression and deceit.
Wickedness [is] in the midst of it: deceit and guile depart not from her 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 [it was] not an enemy [that] reproached me; then I could have borne [it]: neither [was it] he that hated me [that] magnified [himself] against me; then I would have hid myself from him:
13 And you a man according to value my close friend my and acquaintance my.
But [it was] thou, a man my equal, my guide, and my acquaintance.
14 Who together we made sweet counsel in [the] house of God we walked about in a crowd.
We took sweet counsel 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)
Let death seize upon them, [and] let them go down quick into hell: for wickedness [is] in their dwellings, [and] among 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 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, will I pray, and cry aloud: 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 hath delivered my soul in peace from the battle [that was] against me: for there were many 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 will hear and afflict them, even he that abideth of old. (Selah) Because they have no changes, therefore they fear not God.
20 He stretched out hands his on allies his he violated covenant his.
He hath put forth his hands against such as are at peace with him: he hath broken 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.
[The words] of his mouth were smoother than butter, but war [was] in his heart: his words were softer 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 be moved.
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, wilt 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.
