Psalms 59
1 God, save me from my enemies! Protect me from those who want to attack me!
For the end. Destroy not: by David for a memorial, when Saul sent, and watched his house to kill him. Deliver me from mine enemies, O God; and ransom me from those that rise up against me.
2 Rescue me from men who want to do what is wicked, men who are murderers!
Deliver me from the workers of iniquity, and save me from bloody men.
3 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!
For, behold, they have hunted after my soul; violent men have set upon me: neither [is it] my iniquity, nor my sin, O Lord.
4 It is not because I have committed any sin [against them] that they run and get ready to attack me.
Without iniquity I ran and directed [my course aright]: awake to help me, and behold.
5 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.
And you, Lord God of hosts, the God of Israel, draw near to visit all the heathen; pity not any that work iniquity. (Pause)
6 They return each evening, snarling like vicious dogs [SIM] as they prowl around this city.
They shall return at evening, and hunger like a dog, and go round about the city.
7 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!”
Behold, they shall utter a voice with their mouth, and a sword is in their lips; for who, [say they], has heard?
8 But Yahweh, you laugh at them. You (scoff at/ridicule) the [people of the pagan] nations.
But you, Lord, will laugh them to scorn; you will utterly set at nothing all the heathen.
9 God, I have confidence in you because you are very strong; you are my refuge.
will keep my strength, [looking] to you; for you, O God, are my helper.
10 Because you love me, you will come to save me; you will allow me to watch while you defeat my enemies.
[As for] my God, his mercy shall go before me: my God will show me [vengeance] on mine enemies.
11 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.
Slay them not, lest they forget your law; scatter them by your power; and bring them down, O Lord, my defender.
12 Because what they say [MTY] is sinful, allow them to be trapped for being proud. Because they are [always] cursing and telling lies,
[For] the sin of their mouth, [and] the word of their lips, let them be even taken in their pride.
13 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.
And for [their] cursing and falsehood shall utter destruction be denounced: [they shall fall] by the wrath of utter destruction, and shall not be; so shall they know that the God of Jacob is Lord of the ends of the earth. (Pause)
14 My enemies return each evening, snarling like [vicious] dogs as they prowl around this city.
They shall return at evening, and be hungry as a dog, and go round about the city.
15 They roam around, searching for food; and if they do not find enough, they growl.
They shall be scattered hither and there for meat; and if they be not satisfied, they shall even murmur.
16 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.
But I will sing to your strength, and in the morning will I exult [in] your mercy; for you have been my supporter, and my refuge in the day of mine affliction.
17 God, you are the one who enables me to be strong; you are my refuge; you faithfully love me.
[You are] my helper; to you, my God, will I sing; you are my supporter, O my God, [and] my mercy.
