Psalms 56

Supplication for deliverance, and grateful trust in God.

For the Chief Musician; set to That is, The silent dove of them that are afar off . Or, as otherwise read, The dove of the distant terebinths . Jonath elem rehokim. A Psalm of David. Michtam; when the Philistines took him in Gath.

¹Be merciful unto me, O God; for man would swallow me up: All the day long he fighting oppresseth me.

²Mine enemies would swallow me up all the day long; For they are many that fight proudly against me.

³What time I am afraid, I will put my trust in thee.

⁴In God (I will praise his word), In God have I put my trust, I will not be afraid; What can flesh do unto me?

⁵All the day long they wrest my words: All their thoughts are against me for evil.

⁶They gather themselves together, they hide themselves, They mark my steps, Even as they have waited for my soul.

⁷Shall they escape by iniquity? In anger cast down the peoples, O God.

⁸Thou numberest my wanderings: Put thou my tears into thy bottle; Are they not in thy book?

⁹Then shall mine enemies turn back in the day that I call: This I know, that God is for me.

¹⁰In God (I will praise [his] word), In Jehovah (I will praise [his] word),

¹¹In God have I put my trust, I will not be afraid; What can man do unto me?

¹²Thy vows are upon me, O God: I will render thank-offerings unto thee.

¹³For thou hast delivered my soul from death: [Hast thou] not [delivered] my feet from falling, That I may walk before God In the light of the living?

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