Noyes - Psalms - 55

55:1  Give ear to my prayer, O God! Hide not thyself from my supplication!

55:2  Attend unto me, and hear me! I wander about mourning and wailing,

55:3  On account of the clamors of the enemy, On account of the violence of the wicked. For they bring evil upon me, And in wrath set themselves against me.

55:4  My heart trembleth in my bosom, And the terrors of death have fallen upon me.

55:5  Fear and trembling have seized me, And horror hath overwhelmed me.

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

55:7  Behold, I would wander far away, And take up my abode in a wilderness. [Pause.]

55:8  I would hasten away to a shelter From the rushing wind and tempest.

55:9  Confound, O Lord! divide their counsels! For I behold violence and strife in the city.

55:10  Day and night do these go about its walls; In the midst of it are iniquity and mischief.

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

55:12  It was not an enemy that reviled me, Then I could have borne it; Nor one that hated me, who rose up against me; From him I could have hid myself.

55:13  But it was thou, a man my equal, My friend, and my acquaintance.

55:14  We held sweet converse together, And walked to the house of God in company.

55:15  May sudden death seize upon them! May they go down to the underworld alive! For wickedness is in their dwellings, in the midst of them.

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

55:17  At evening, at morn, and at noon I mourn and sigh, And he will hear my voice.

55:18  He will deliver me in peace from my conflict; For many have risen up against me.

55:19  God will hear me, and bring them down,—He that hath been judge of old. [Pause.] Because they have no changes, Therefore they fear not God.

55:20  They lift up their hands against their friend, And break their covenant with him.

55:21  Their speech was softer than butter, But war was in their heart; Their words were smoother than oil, Yet were they drawn swords.

55:22  "Cast thy burden upon the LORD, and he will sustain thee; He will never suffer the righteous to fall!"

55:23  Yea, thou, O God! wilt bring them down into the lowest pit! Bloody and deceitful men shall not live out half their days. But I will trust in thee!