Ps-55
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v1
Give ear to my prayer, O God, and hide not yourself from my plea for mercy!
v2
Attend to me, and answer me; I am restless in my complaint and I moan,
v3
because of the noise of the enemy, because of the oppression of the wicked. For they drop trouble upon me, and in anger they bear a grudge against me.
v4
My heart is in anguish within me; the terrors of death have fallen upon me.
v5
Fear and trembling come upon me, and horror overwhelms me.
v6
And I say, “Oh, that I had wings like a dove! I would fly away and be at rest;
v7
yes, I would wander far away; I would lodge in the wilderness; Selah
v8
I would hurry to find a shelter from the raging wind and tempest.”
v9
Destroy, O Lord, divide their tongues; for I see violence and strife in the city.
v10
Day and night they go around it on its walls, and iniquity and trouble are within it;
v11
ruin is in its midst; oppression and fraud do not depart from its marketplace.
v12
For it is not an enemy who taunts me— then I could bear it; it is not an adversary who deals insolently with me— then I could hide from him.
v13
But it is you, a man, my equal, my companion, my familiar friend.
v14
We used to take sweet counsel together; within God’s house we walked in the throng.
v15
Let death steal over them; let them go down to Sheol alive; for evil is in their dwelling place and in their heart.
v16
But I call to God, and the LORD will save me.
v17
Evening and morning and at noon I utter my complaint and moan, and he hears my voice.
v18
He redeems my soul in safety from the battle that I wage, for many are arrayed against me.
v19
God will give ear and humble them, he who is enthroned from of old, Selah because they do not change and do not fear God.
v20
My companion stretched out his hand against his friends; he violated his covenant.
v21
His speech was smooth as butter, yet war was in his heart; his words were softer than oil, yet they were drawn swords.
v22
Cast your burden on the LORD, and he will sustain you; he will never permit the righteous to be moved.
v23
But you, O God, will cast them down into the pit of destruction; men of blood and treachery shall not live out half their days. But I will trust in you.