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Psalms 55
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1(56) For the end, concerning the people that were removed from the sanctuary, by David for a memorial, when the Philistines caught him in Geth. Have mercy upon me, O God; for man has trodden me down; all the day long he warring has afflicted me.
1Give ear to my prayer, O God; and hide not thyself from my supplication.
2Mine enemies have trodden me down all the day from the dawning of the day; for there are many warring against me.
2Attend unto me, and hear me: I mourn in my complaint, and make a noise;
3They shall be afraid, but I will trust in you.
3Because of the voice of the enemy, because of the oppression of the wicked: for they cast iniquity upon me, and in wrath they hate me.
4In God I will praise my words; all the day have I hoped in God; I will not fear what flesh shall do to me.
4My heart is sore pained within me: and the terrors of death are fallen upon me.
5All the day long they have abominated my words; all their devices [are] against me for evil.
5Fearfulness and trembling are come upon me, and horror hath overwhelmed me.
6They will dwell near and hide [themselves]; they will watch my steps, accordingly as I have waited patiently in my soul.
6And I said, Oh that I had wings like a dove! for then would I fly away, and be at rest.
7You will on no account save them; you will bring down the people in wrath.
7Lo, then would I wander far off, and remain in the wilderness. Selah.
8O God, I have declared my life to you; you have set my tears before you, even according to your promise.
8I would hasten my escape from the windy storm and tempest.
9Mine enemies shall be turned back, in the day wherein I shall call upon you; behold, I know that you are my God.
9Destroy, O Lord, and divide their tongues: for I have seen violence and strife in the city.
10In God, will I praise [his] word; in the Lord will I praise [his] saying.
10Day and night they go about it upon the walls thereof: mischief also and sorrow are in the midst of it.
11I have hoped in God; I will not be afraid of what man shall do to me.
11Wickedness is in the midst thereof: deceit and guile depart not from her streets.
12The vows of your praise, O God, which I will pay, are upon me.
12For it was not an enemy that reproached me; then I could have borne it: neither was it he that hated me that did magnify himself against me; then I would have hid myself from him:
13For you have delivered my soul from death, and my feet from sliding, that I should be well-pleasing before God in the land of the living.
13But it was thou, a man mine equal, my guide, and mine acquaintance.