LEB - Psalms - 55

55:1  A maskil of David. Give ear, O God, to my prayer, and do not hide yourself from my plea.

55:2  Attend to me and answer me. I am restless in my lamenting and I groan,

55:3  because of the voice of an enemy, because of the oppression of the wicked, because they bring down evil on me, and in anger they hold a grudge against me.

55:4  My heart trembles within me, and deathly terrors fall on me.

55:5  Fear and trembling come on me, and horror overwhelms me.

55:6  So I say, “⌞Oh, that⌟ I had wings like a dove. I would fly away and be at rest.

55:7  Look, I would flee far away. I would dwell in the wilderness. Selah

55:8  I would hurry to my refuge from the raging wind and storm.”

55:9  Confuse, O Lord; divide their speech, because I see violence and strife in the city.

55:10  Day and night they go around it on its walls, and iniquity and trouble are in its midst.

55:11  Destruction is within it, and oppression and deceit do not depart from its public square.

55:12  For it is not an enemy that taunts me, or I could bear it. It is not one who hates me that magnifies himself over me, or I could hide myself from him.

55:13  But it is you, a man my equal, my friend and confidant.

55:14  We who would take sweet counsel together; in the house of God we would walk with the throng.

55:15  Let death deceive them. May they descend to Sheol alive, because evil is in their home and ⌞heart⌟.

55:16  As for me, I will call to God, and Yahweh will save me.

55:17  ⌞Morning, noon and night⌟ I will lament and groan loudly, and he will hear my voice.

55:18  He safely redeems my life from the battle against me, because those standing against me are among many.

55:19  God will hear and answer them, he who is enthroned from of old, Selah Because they do not change, and they do not fear God.

55:20  He has put forth his hands against ⌞his friends⌟; he has defiled his covenant.

55:21  The ⌞buttery words⌟ of his mouth were smooth, but there was battle in his heart. His words were smoother than oil, but they were drawn swords.

55:22  Cast your burden on Yahweh, and he will sustain you. He will never allow the righteous to be moved.

55:23  But you, O God, you will bring them down to the pit of corruption. The men of bloodshed and deceit will not live half their days, but I will trust you.