Psalmorum 55
1 in finem in carminibus intellectus David exaudi Deus orationem meam et ne despexeris deprecationem meam
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.
2 intende mihi et exaudi me contristatus sum in exercitatione mea et conturbatus sum
Pay attention! to me and answer me I am restless in complaint my and I am distraught.
3 a voce inimici et a tribulatione peccatoris quoniam declinaverunt in me iniquitatem et in ira molesti erant mihi
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.
4 cor meum conturbatum est in me et formido mortis cecidit super me
Heart my it trembles within me and [the] terrors of death they have fallen on me.
5 timor et tremor venit super me et contexit me tenebra
Fear and trembling it comes on me and it has covered me shuddering.
6 et dixi quis dabit mihi pinnas sicut columbae et volabo et requiescam
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.
7 ecce elongavi fugiens et mansi in solitudine diapsalma
Here! I want to be far away [surely] to flee I want to lodge in the wilderness (Selah)
8 expectabam eum qui salvum me fecit a pusillanimitate spiritus et a tempestate
I want to make haste a place of escape of me from a wind rushing from a storm.
9 praecipita Domine divide linguas eorum quoniam vidi iniquitatem et contradictionem in civitate
Confuse O Lord divide tongue their for I have seen violence and strife in the city.
10 die et nocte circumdabit eam super muros eius et iniquitas et labor in medio eius
By day and night they go around it on walls its and wickedness and trouble [are] in midst its.
11 et iniustitia et non defecit de plateis eius usura et dolus
Destruction [are] in midst its and not it departs from public square its oppression and deceit.
12 quoniam si inimicus maledixisset mihi sustinuissem utique et si is qui oderat me super me magna locutus fuisset abscondissem me forsitan ab eo
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.
13 tu vero homo unianimis dux meus et notus meus
And you a man according to value my close friend my and acquaintance my.
14 qui simul mecum dulces capiebas cibos in domo Dei ambulavimus cum consensu
Who together we made sweet counsel in [the] house of God we walked about in a crowd.
15 veniat mors super illos et descendant in infernum viventes quoniam nequitiae in habitaculis eorum in medio eorum (Sheol h7585)
(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)
16 ego autem ad Deum clamavi et Dominus salvabit me
I to God I will call out and Yahweh he will save me.
17 vespere et mane et meridie narrabo et adnuntiabo et exaudiet vocem meam
Evening and morning and noon I will complain and I may murmur and he heard voice my.
18 redimet in pace animam meam ab his qui adpropinquant mihi quoniam inter multos erant mecum
He will ransom in peace life my from battle to me for many [people] they are with me.
19 exaudiet Deus et humiliabit illos qui est ante saecula diapsalma non enim est illis commutatio et non timuerunt Deum
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.
20 extendit manum suam in retribuendo contaminaverunt testamentum eius
He stretched out hands his on allies his he violated covenant his.
21 divisi sunt ab ira vultus eius et adpropinquavit cor illius molliti sunt sermones eius super oleum et ipsi sunt iacula
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.
22 iacta super Dominum curam tuam et ipse te enutriet non dabit in aeternum fluctuationem iusto
Cast on Yahweh - burden your and he he will sustain you not he will permit for ever to shake to the righteous.
23 tu vero Deus deduces eos in puteum interitus viri sanguinum et doli non dimidiabunt dies suos ego autem sperabo in te Domine
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.
