Psalms 59
1 God, save me from my enemies! Protect me from those who want to attack me!
To the chief Musician. 'Destroy not.' Of David. Michtam; when Saul sent, and they watched the house to kill him. Deliver me from mine enemies, O my God; secure me on high from them 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 men of blood.
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 lie in wait for my soul; strong ones are gathered against me: not for my transgression, nor for my sin, O Jehovah.
4 It is not because I have committed any sin [against them] that they run and get ready to attack me.
They run and prepare themselves without [my] fault: awake to meet 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.
Yea, do thou, Jehovah, the God of hosts, the God of Israel, arise to visit all the nations: be not gracious to any plotters of iniquity. (Selah)
6 They return each evening, snarling like vicious dogs [SIM] as they prowl around this city.
They return in the evening; they howl 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 belch out with their mouth; swords are in their lips: for who [say they] doth hear?
8 But Yahweh, you laugh at them. You (scoff at/ridicule) the [people of the pagan] nations.
But thou, Jehovah, wilt laugh at them; thou wilt have all the nations in derision.
9 God, I have confidence in you because you are very strong; you are my refuge.
Their strength! ...I will take heed to thee; for God is my high fortress.
10 Because you love me, you will come to save me; you will allow me to watch while you defeat my enemies.
God, whose loving-kindness will come to meet me, — God shall let me see [my desire] upon 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 my people forget; by thy power make them wander, and bring them down, O Lord, our shield.
12 Because what they say [MTY] is sinful, allow them to be trapped for being proud. Because they are [always] cursing and telling lies,
[Because of] the sin of their mouth, the word of their lips, let them even be taken in their pride; and because of cursing and lying which they speak.
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.
Make an end in wrath, make an end, that they may be no more; that they may know that God ruleth in Jacob, unto the ends of the earth. (Selah)
14 My enemies return each evening, snarling like [vicious] dogs as they prowl around this city.
And in the evening they shall return, they shall howl like 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 wander about for meat, and stay all night if they be not satisfied.
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 as for me, I will sing of thy strength; yea, I will sing aloud of thy loving-kindness in the morning; for thou hast been to me a high fortress, and a refuge in the day of my trouble.
17 God, you are the one who enables me to be strong; you are my refuge; you faithfully love me.
Unto thee, my strength, will I sing psalms; for God is my high fortress, the God of my mercy.
