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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 to me, God, for man wants to swallow me up. All day long, he attacks and oppresses me.

²My enemies want to swallow me up all day long, For they are many who fight proudly against me.

³When I am afraid, I will put my trust in you.

⁴In God, I praise his word. In God, I put my trust. I will not be afraid. What can flesh do to me?

⁵All day long they twist my words. All their thoughts are against me for evil.

⁶They conspire and lurk, Watching my steps, they are eager to take my life.

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

⁸You number my wanderings. You put my tears into your bottle. Aren`t they in your book?

⁹Then shall my enemies turn back in the day that I call. I know this, that God is for me.

¹⁰In God, I will praise his word. In Yahweh, I will praise his word.

¹¹I have put my trust in God. I will not be afraid. What can man do to me?

¹²Your vows are on me, God. I will give thank offerings to you.

¹³For you have delivered my soul from death, And prevented my feet from falling, That I may walk before God in the light of the living.

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