ACV - Psalms - 55

55:1  Give ear to my prayer, O God, and hide not thyself from my supplication.

55:2  Attend to me, and answer me. I am restless in my complaint, and moan,

55:3  because of the voice of the enemy, because of the oppression of the wicked. For they cast iniquity upon me, and in anger they persecute me.

55:4  My heart is greatly pained within me, and the terrors of death have fallen upon me.

55:5  Fearfulness and trembling have come upon me, and horror has overwhelmed me.

55:6  And I said, O that I had wings like a dove! Then I would fly away, and be at rest.

55:7  Lo, then I would wander far off. I would lodge in the wilderness. Selah.

55:8  I would hasten myself to a shelter from the stormy wind and tempest.

55:9  Destroy, O Lord, divide their tongue, for I have seen violence and strife in the city.

55:10  Day and night they go about it, upon the walls of it. Iniquity and mischief also are in the midst of it.

55:11  Wickedness is in the midst of it. Oppression and deceit depart not from its streets.

55:12  For it was not an enemy who reproached me. Then I could have borne it. Neither was it he who hated me that magnified himself against me. Then I would have hid myself from him.

55:13  But it was thou, a man my equal, my companion, and my familiar friend.

55:14  We took sweet counsel together. We walked in the house of God with the throng.

55:15  Let death come suddenly upon them. Let them go down alive into Sheol. For wickedness is in their dwelling, in the midst of them.

55:16  As for me, I will call upon God, and Jehovah will save me.

55:17  Evening, and morning, and at noonday, I will complain and moan. And he will hear my voice.

55:18  He has redeemed my soul in peace from the battle that was against me, for there were many by me.

55:19  God will hear, and respond to them, (even he who abides of old), Selah, men who have no changes, and who fear not God.

55:20  He has put forth his hands against such as were at peace with him. He has profaned his covenant.

55:21  His mouth was smooth as butter, but his heart was war. His words were softer than oil, yet they were drawn swords.

55:22  (Cast thy burden upon Jehovah, and he will sustain thee. He will never allow the righteous man to be moved.)

55:23  But thou, O God, will bring them down into the pit of destruction. Bloodthirsty and deceitful men shall not live out half their days, but I will trust in thee.