rsv Psalms:55:1-23
rsv@Psalms:55:1 @ To the choirmaster: with stringed instruments. A Maskil of David.
rsv@Psalms:55:2 @ Give ear to my prayer, O God; and hide not thyself from my supplication!
rsv@Psalms:55:3 @ Attend to me, and answer me; I am overcome by my trouble. I am distraught
rsv@Psalms:55:4 @ by the noise of the enemy, because of the oppression of the wicked. For they bring trouble upon me, and in anger they cherish enmity against me.
rsv@Psalms:55:5 @ My heart is in anguish within me, the terrors of death have fallen upon me.
rsv@Psalms:55:6 @ Fear and trembling come upon me, and horror overwhelms me.
rsv@Psalms:55:7 @ And I say, "O that I had wings like a dove! I would fly away and be at rest;
rsv@Psalms:55:8 @ yea, I would wander afar, I would lodge in the wilderness, [Selah]
rsv@Psalms:55:9 @ I would haste to find me a shelter from the raging wind and tempest."
rsv@Psalms:55:10 @ Destroy their plans, O Lord, confuse their tongues; for I see violence and strife in the city.
rsv@Psalms:55:11 @ Day and night they go around it on its walls; and mischief and trouble are within it,
rsv@Psalms:55:12 @ ruin is in its midst; oppression and fraud do not depart from its market place.
rsv@Psalms:55:13 @ 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.
rsv@Psalms:55:14 @ But it is you, my equal, my companion, my familiar friend.
rsv@Psalms:55:15 @ We used to hold sweet converse together; within God's house we walked in fellowship.
rsv@Psalms:55:16 @ Let death come upon them; let them go down to Sheol alive; let them go away in terror into their graves.
rsv@Psalms:55:17 @ But I call upon God; and the LORD will save me.
rsv@Psalms:55:18 @ Evening and morning and at noon I utter my complaint and moan, and he will hear my voice.
rsv@Psalms:55:19 @ He will deliver my soul in safety from the battle that I wage, for many are arrayed against me.
rsv@Psalms:55:20 @ God will give ear, and humble them, he who is enthroned from of old; because they keep no law, and do not fear God. [Selah]
rsv@Psalms:55:21 @ My companion stretched out his hand against his friends, he violated his covenant.
rsv@Psalms:55:22 @ His speech was smoother than butter, yet war was in his heart; his words were softer than oil, yet they were drawn swords.
rsv@Psalms:55:23 @ Cast your burden on the LORD, and he will sustain you; he will never permit the righteous to be moved. [ (Psalms strkjv@55:24) But thou, O God, wilt cast them down into the lowest pit; men of blood and treachery shall not live out half their days. But I will trust in thee. ]
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