Psalms 59
1 God, save me from my enemies! Protect me from those who want to attack me!
Deliver me from mine enemies, O my God: defend me 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 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, lo, they lie in wait for my soul: the mighty are gathered against me; not for my transgression, nor for my sin, O Yhwh.
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 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.
Thou therefore, O Yhwh God of Armies, the God of Israel, awake to visit all the heathen: be not merciful to any wicked transgressors. (Selah)
6 They return each evening, snarling like vicious dogs [SIM] as they prowl around this city.
They return at evening: they make a noise 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, O Yhwh, shalt laugh at them; thou shalt have all the heathen in derision.
9 God, I have confidence in you because you are very strong; you are my refuge.
Because of his strength will I wait upon thee: for God is my defence.
10 Because you love me, you will come to save me; you will allow me to watch while you defeat my enemies.
The God of my mercy shall prevent 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: scatter them by thy power; 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,
For the sin of their mouth and the words of their lips let them even be taken in their pride: and for 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.
Consume them in wrath, consume them, that they may not be: and let them 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 at evening let them return; and let them make a noise 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.
Let them wander up and down for meat, and grudge 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 I will sing of thy power; yea, I will sing aloud of thy mercy in the morning: for thou hast been my defence and 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, O my strength, will I sing: for God is my defence, and the God of my mercy.
