YLT - Psalms - 55

55:1  To the Overseer with stringed instruments. --An instruction, by David. Give ear, O God, to my prayer, And hide not from my supplication.

55:2  Attend to me, and answer me, I mourn in my meditation, and make a noise,

55:3  Because of the voice of an enemy, Because of the oppression of the wicked, For they cause sorrow to move against me, And in anger they hate me.

55:4  My heart is pained within me, And terrors of death have fallen on me.

55:5  Fear and trembling come in to me, And horror doth cover me.

55:6  And I say, `Who doth give to me a pinion as a dove? I fly away and rest,

55:7  Lo, I move far off, I lodge in a wilderness. Selah.

55:8  I hasten escape for myself, From a rushing wind, from a whirlwind.

55:9  Swallow up, O Lord, divide their tongue, For I saw violence and strife in a city.

55:10  By day and by night they go round it, on its walls. Both iniquity and perverseness are in its midst,

55:11  Mischiefs are in its midst. Fraud and deceit depart not from its street.

55:12  For an enemy reproacheth me not, or I bear it , He who is hating me Hath not magnified himself against me, Or I hide from him.

55:13  But thou, a man--as mine equal, My familiar friend, and mine acquaintance.

55:14  When together we sweeten counsel, Into the house of God we walk in company.

55:15  Desolations are upon them, They go down to Sheol--alive, For wickedness is in their dwelling, in their midst.

55:16  I--to God I call, and Jehovah saveth me.

55:17  Evening, and morning, and noon, I meditate, and make a noise, and He heareth my voice,

55:18  He hath ransomed in peace my soul From him who is near to me, For with the multitude they were with me.

55:19  God doth hear and afflict them, And He sitteth of old. Selah. Because they have no changes, and fear not God,

55:20  He hath sent forth his hands against his well-wishers, He hath polluted his covenant.

55:21  Sweeter than honey hath been his mouth, And his heart is war! Softer have been his words than oil, And they are drawn swords .

55:22  Cast on Jehovah that which He hath given thee, And He doth sustain thee, He doth not suffer for ever the moving of the righteous.

55:23  And Thou, O God, dost bring them down To a pit of destruction, Men of blood and deceit reach not to half their days, And I--I do trust in Thee!