MKJV - Psalms - 55

55:1  To the Chief Musician. For stringed instruments. A contemplation. A Psalm of David. Give ear to my prayer, O God; and hide not Yourself from my cry.

55:2  Attend to me, and hear me; I wander and I moan in my complaint,

55:3  from the voice of the enemy, from the oppression of the wicked, for they shake trouble over me, and in wrath they hate me.

55:4  My heart is pained within me; and the terrors of death have fallen on me.

55:5  Fear and trembling have come on me, and horror has covered me.

55:6  And I said, Who will give to me wings like a dove! I would fly away and be at rest.

55:7  Lo, I would wander far off; I would lodge in the desert. Selah.

55:8  I would hasten my escape from the windy storm and tempest.

55:9  Swallow up, O LORD, and divide their tongues; for I have seen violence and fighting in the city.

55:10  They go around her on her walls by day and night; and evil and sorrow are in her midst.

55:11  Covetings are in her midst; oppression and guile will not depart from her streets.

55:12  For it is not an enemy who reviled me; then I could have borne it; it is not one who hates me who magnified himself against me; or I would hide myself from him;

55:13  but it is you, a man my rank, my guide and my friend.

55:14  We took sweet counsel together, and walked to the house of God in company.

55:15  Let desolation take hold on them, and let them go down alive into hell; for evils are among them in their dwellings.

55:16  I, even I, will call to God, and the LORD will save me.

55:17  Evening and morning, and at noon, I will pray and cry aloud; and He shall hear my voice.

55:18  He has delivered my soul in peace from the battle that was against me; for there were many with me.

55:19  God shall hear and answer them, even He who is enthroned of old. Selah. Because they have no changes, therefore they do not fear God.

55:20  He has put forth his hands against those who were at peace with him; he has broken his covenant.

55:21  The butterings of his mouth were forked, but war was in his heart; his words were softer than oil, yet they were drawn swords.

55:22  Cast your burden on the LORD, and He will keep you; He will never allow the righteous to waver.

55:23  But You, O God, will bring them down into the pit of ruin; bloody and deceitful men shall not live half their days; but I will trust in You.