38:1{A Psalm of David, to bring to remembrance.} Jehovah, rebuke me not in thy wrath; neither chasten me in thy hot displeasure. 38:2For thine arrows stick fast in me, and thy hand cometh down upon me. 38:3There is no soundness in my flesh because of thine indignation; no peace in my bones, because of my sin. 38:4For mine iniquities are gone over my head: as a heavy burden they are too heavy for me. 38:5My wounds stink, they are corrupt, because of my foolishness. 38:6I am depressed; I am bowed down beyond measure; I go mourning all the day. 38:7For my loins are full of burning, and there is no soundness in my flesh. 38:8I am faint and broken beyond measure; I roar by reason of the agitation of my heart. 38:9Lord, all my desire is before thee, and my sighing is not hid from thee. 38:10My heart throbbeth, my strength hath left me; and the light of mine eyes, it also is no more with me. 38:11My lovers and mine associates stand aloof from my stroke; and my kinsmen stand afar off. 38:12And they that seek after my life lay snares [for me]; and they that seek my hurt speak mischievous things, and meditate deceits all the day long. 38:13But I, as a deaf [man], hear not; and am as a dumb man that openeth not his mouth. 38:14Yea, I am as a man that heareth not, and in whose mouth are no reproofs. 38:15For in thee, Jehovah, do I hope: *thou* wilt answer, O Lord my God. 38:16For I said, Let them not rejoice over me! When my foot slipped, they magnified [themselves] against me. 38:17For I am ready to halt, and my pain is continually before me. 38:18For I will declare mine iniquity, I am grieved for my sin. 38:19But mine enemies are lively, they are strong; and they that hate me wrongfully are multiplied: 38:20And they that render evil for good are adversaries unto me; because I pursue what is good. 38:21Forsake me not, Jehovah; O my God, be not far from me. 38:22Make haste to help me, O Lord, my salvation. 38:23
39:1{To the chief Musician, to Jeduthun. A Psalm of David.} I said, I will take heed to my ways, that I sin not with my tongue: I will keep my mouth with a muzzle, while the wicked is before me. 39:2I was dumb with silence, I held my peace from good; and my sorrow was stirred. 39:3My heart burned within me; the fire was kindled in my musing: I spoke with my tongue, 39:4Make me to know, Jehovah, mine end, and the measure of my days, what it is: I shall know how frail I am. 39:5Behold, thou hast made my days [as] hand-breadths, and my lifetime is as nothing before thee; verily, every man, [even] the high placed, is altogether vanity. Selah. 39:6Verily, man walketh in a vain show; verily they are disquieted in vain; he heapeth up [riches], and knoweth not who shall gather them. 39:7And now, what wait I for, Lord? my hope is in thee. 39:8Deliver me from all my transgressions; make me not the reproach of the foolish. 39:9I was dumb, I opened not my mouth; for *thou* hast done [it]. 39:10Remove thy stroke away from me: I am consumed by the blow of thy hand. 39:11When thou with rebukes dost correct a man for iniquity, thou makest his beauty to consume away like a moth: surely, every man is vanity. Selah. 39:12Hear my prayer, Jehovah, and give ear unto my cry; be not silent at my tears: for I am a stranger with thee, a sojourner, like all my fathers. 39:13Look away from me, and let me recover strength, before I go hence and be no more.
40:1{To the chief Musician. Of David. A Psalm.} I waited patiently for Jehovah; and he inclined unto me, and heard my cry. 40:2And he brought me up out of the pit of destruction, out of the miry clay, and set my feet upon a rock; he hath established my goings: 40:3And he hath put a new song in my mouth, praise unto our God. Many shall see it, and fear, and shall confide in Jehovah. 40:4Blessed is the man that hath made Jehovah his confidence, and turneth not to the proud, and to such as turn aside to lies. 40:5Thou, O Jehovah my God, hast multiplied thy marvellous works, and thy thoughts toward us: they cannot be reckoned up in order unto thee; would I declare and speak [them], they are more than can be numbered. 40:6Sacrifice and oblation thou didst not desire: ears hast thou prepared me. Burnt-offering and sin-offering hast thou not demanded; 40:7Then said I, Behold, I come, in the volume of the book it is written of me 40:8To do thy good pleasure, my God, is my delight, and thy law is within my heart. 40:9I have published righteousness in the great congregation: behold, I have not withheld my lips, Jehovah, *thou* knowest. 40:10I have not hidden thy righteousness within my heart; I have declared thy faithfulness and thy salvation: I have not concealed thy loving-kindness and thy truth from the great congregation. 40:11Withhold not thou, Jehovah, thy tender mercies from me; let thy loving-kindness and thy truth continually preserve me. 40:12For innumerable evils have compassed me about: mine iniquities have taken hold upon me, so that I cannot see; they are more than the hairs of my head: and my heart hath failed me. 40:13Be pleased, O Jehovah, to deliver me; Jehovah, make haste to my help. 40:14Let them be ashamed and brought to confusion together that seek after my soul to destroy it; let them be turned backward and confounded that take pleasure in mine adversity; 40:15Let them be desolate, because of their shame, that say unto me, Aha! Aha! 40:16Let all those that seek thee be glad and rejoice in thee; let such as love thy salvation say continually, Jehovah be magnified! 40:17But I am afflicted and needy: the Lord thinketh upon me. Thou art my help and my deliverer: my God, make no delay. 40:18
41:1{To the chief Musician. A Psalm of David.} Blessed is he that understandeth the poor: Jehovah will deliver him in the day of evil. 41:2Jehovah will preserve him, and keep him alive; he shall be made happy in the land; and thou wilt not deliver him to the will of his enemies. 41:3Jehovah will sustain him upon the bed of languishing: thou turnest all his bed in his sickness. 41:4As for me, I said, Jehovah, be gracious unto me: heal my soul; for I have sinned against thee. 41:5Mine enemies wish me evil: When will he die, and his name perish? 41:6And if one come to see [me], he speaketh falsehood; his heart gathereth wickedness to itself: he goeth abroad, he telleth [it]. 41:7All that hate me whisper together against me; against me do they devise my hurt. 41:8A thing of Belial cleaveth fast unto him; and now that he is laid down, he will rise up no more. 41:9Yea, mine own familiar friend, in whom I confided, who did eat of my bread, hath lifted up [his] heel against me. 41:10But thou, Jehovah, be gracious unto me, and raise me up, that I may requite them. 41:11By this I know that thou delightest in me, because mine enemy doth not triumph over me. 41:12But as for me, thou upholdest me in mine integrity, and settest me before thy face for ever. 41:13Blessed be Jehovah, the God of Israel, from eternity to eternity! Amen, and Amen. 41:14
42:1{To the chief Musician. An instruction; of the sons of Korah.} As the hart panteth after the water-brooks, so panteth my soul after thee, O God. 42:2My soul thirsteth for God, for the living God: when shall I come and appear before God? 42:3My tears have been my bread day and night, while they say unto me all the day, Where is thy God? 42:4These things I remember and have poured out my soul within me: how I passed along with the multitude, how I went on with them to the house of God, with the voice of joy and praise, a festive multitude. 42:5Why art thou cast down, my soul, and art disquieted in me? hope in God; for I shall yet praise him, [for] the health of his countenance. 42:6My God, my soul is cast down within me; therefore do I remember thee from the land of the Jordan, and the Hermons, from mount Mizar. 42:7Deep calleth unto deep at the noise of thy cataracts; all thy breakers and thy billows are gone over me. 42:8In the day-time will Jehovah command his loving-kindness, and in the night his song shall be with me, a prayer unto the God of my life. 42:9I will say unto God my rock, Why hast thou forgotten me? why go I mourning because of the oppression of the enemy? 42:10As with a crushing in my bones mine adversaries reproach me, while they say unto me all the day, Where is thy God? 42:11Why art thou cast down, my soul? and why art thou disquieted within me? hope in God; for I shall yet praise him, [who is] the health of my countenance, and my God.
43:1Judge me, O God, and plead my cause against an ungodly nation; deliver me from the deceitful and unrighteous man. 43:2For thou art the God of my strength: why hast thou cast me off? why go I about mourning because of the oppression of the enemy? 43:3Send out thy light and thy truth: *they* shall lead me, *they* shall bring me to thy holy mount, and unto thy habitations. 43:4Then will I go unto the altar of God, unto the God of the gladness of my joy: yea, upon the harp will I praise thee, O God, my God. 43:5Why art thou cast down, my soul? and why art thou disquieted within me? hope in God; for I shall yet praise him, [who is] the health of my countenance, and my God.
44:1{To the chief Musician. Of the sons of Korah. An instruction.} O God, with our ears have we heard, our fathers have told us, the work thou wroughtest in their days, in the days of old: 44:2Thou, by thy hand, didst dispossess the nations, but them thou didst plant; thou didst afflict the peoples, but them didst thou cause to spread out. 44:3For not by their own sword did they take possession of the land, neither did their own arm save them; but thy right hand, and thine arm, and the light of thy countenance, because thou hadst delight in them. 44:4Thou thyself art my king, O God: command deliverance for Jacob. 44:5Through thee will we push down our adversaries; through thy name will we tread them under that rise up against us. 44:6For I will not put confidence in my bow, neither shall my sword save me. 44:7For thou hast saved us from our adversaries, and hast put them to shame that hate us. 44:8In God will we boast all the day, and we will praise thy name for ever. Selah. 44:9But thou hast cast off, and put us to confusion, and dost not go forth with our armies; 44:10Thou hast made us to turn back from the adversary, and they that hate us spoil for themselves; 44:11Thou hast given us over like sheep [appointed] for meat, and hast scattered us among the nations; 44:12Thou hast sold thy people for nought, and hast not increased [thy wealth] by their price; 44:13Thou makest us a reproach to our neighbours, a mockery and a derision for them that are round about us; 44:14Thou makest us a byword among the nations, a shaking of the head among the peoples. 44:15All the day my confusion is before me, and the shame of my face hath covered me, 44:16Because of the voice of him that reproacheth and blasphemeth; by reason of the enemy and the avenger. 44:17All this is come upon us; yet have we not forgotten thee, neither have we dealt falsely against thy covenant: 44:18Our heart is not turned back, neither have our steps declined from thy path; 44:19Though thou hast crushed us in the place of jackals, and covered us with the shadow of death. 44:20If we had forgotten the name of our God, and stretched out our hands to a strange God, 44:21Would not God search this out? for he knoweth the secrets of the heart. 44:22But for thy sake are we killed all the day long; we are reckoned as sheep for slaughter. 44:23Awake, why sleepest thou, Lord? arise, cast [us] not off for ever. 44:24Wherefore hidest thou thy face, [and] forgettest our affliction and our oppression? 44:25For our soul is bowed down to the dust; our belly cleaveth unto the earth. 44:26Rise up for our help, and redeem us for thy loving-kindness' sake. 44:27
45:1{To the chief Musician. Upon Shoshannim. Of the sons of Korah. An instruction; a song of the Beloved.} My heart is welling forth [with] a good matter: I say what I have composed touching the king. My tongue is the pen of a ready writer. 45:2Thou art fairer than the sons of men; grace is poured into thy lips: therefore God hath blessed thee for ever. 45:3Gird thy sword upon [thy] thigh, O mighty one, [in] thy majesty and thy splendour; 45:4And [in] thy splendour ride prosperously, because of truth and meekness [and] righteousness: and thy right hand shall teach thee terrible things. 45:5Thine arrows are sharp peoples fall under thee in the heart of the king's enemies. 45:6Thy throne, O God, is for ever and ever; a sceptre of uprightness is the sceptre of thy kingdom: 45:7Thou hast loved righteousness, and hated wickedness; therefore God, thy God, hath anointed thee with the oil of gladness above thy companions. 45:8Myrrh and aloes, cassia, are all thy garments; out of ivory palaces stringed instruments have made thee glad. 45:9Kings' daughters are among thine honourable women; upon thy right hand doth stand the queen in gold of Ophir. 45:10Hearken, daughter, and see, and incline thine ear; and forget thine own people and thy father's house: 45:11And the king will desire thy beauty; for he is thy Lord, and worship thou him. 45:12And the daughter of Tyre with a gift, the rich ones among the people, shall court thy favour. 45:13All glorious is the king's daughter within; her clothing is of wrought gold: 45:14She shall be brought unto the king in raiment of embroidery; the virgins behind her, her companions, shall be brought in unto thee: 45:15With joy and gladness shall they be brought; they shall enter into the king's palace. 45:16Instead of thy fathers shall be thy sons; princes shalt thou make them in all the earth. 45:17I will make thy name to be remembered throughout all generations; therefore shall the peoples praise thee for ever and ever. 45:18
46:1{To the chief Musician. Of the sons of Korah. On Alamoth. A song.} God is our refuge and strength, a help in distresses, very readily found. 46:2Therefore will we not fear though the earth be removed, and though the mountains be carried into the heart of the seas; 46:3Though the waters thereof roar [and] foam, though the mountains shake with the swelling thereof. Selah. 46:4There is a river the streams whereof make glad the city of God, the sanctuary of the habitations of the Most High. 46:5God is in the midst of her; she shall not be moved: God shall help her at the dawn of the morning. 46:6The nations raged, the kingdoms were moved; he uttered his voice, the earth melted. 46:7Jehovah of hosts is with us; the God of Jacob is our high fortress. Selah. 46:8Come, behold the works of Jehovah, what desolations he hath made in the earth: 46:9He hath made wars to cease unto the end of the earth; he breaketh the bow, and cutteth the spear in sunder; he burneth the chariots in the fire. 46:10Be still, and know that I am God: I will be exalted among the nations, I will be exalted in the earth. 46:11Jehovah of hosts is with us; the God of Jacob is our high fortress. Selah. 46:12
47:1{To the chief Musician. Of the sons of Korah. A Psalm.} All ye peoples, clap your hands; shout unto God with the voice of triumph! 47:2For Jehovah, the Most High, is terrible, a great king over all the earth. 47:3He subdueth the peoples under us, and the nations under our feet. 47:4He hath chosen our inheritance for us, the excellency of Jacob whom he loved. Selah. 47:5God is gone up amid shouting, Jehovah amid the sound of the trumpet. 47:6Sing psalms of God, sing psalms; sing psalms unto our King, sing psalms! 47:7For God is the King of all the earth; sing psalms with understanding. 47:8God reigneth over the nations; God sitteth upon the throne of his holiness. 47:9The willing-hearted of the peoples have gathered together, [with] the people of the God of Abraham. For unto God [belong] the shields of the earth: he is greatly exalted. 47:10
48:1{A Song; a Psalm. Of the sons of Korah.} Great is Jehovah, and greatly to be praised in the city of our God, in the hill of his holiness. 48:2Beautiful in elevation, the joy of the whole earth, is mount Zion, [on] the sides of the north, the city of the great King. 48:3God is known in her palaces as a high fortress. 48:4For behold, the kings assembled themselves, they passed by together; 48:5They saw, so they marvelled; they were troubled, they fled in consternation: 48:6Trembling took hold upon them there; anguish, as of a woman in travail. 48:7With an east wind thou hast broken the ships of Tarshish. 48:8As we have heard, so have we seen, in the city of Jehovah of hosts, in the city of our God: God doth establish it for ever. Selah. 48:9We have thought, O God, of thy loving-kindness, in the midst of thy temple. 48:10According to thy name, O God, so is thy praise unto the ends of the earth: thy right hand is full of righteousness. 48:11Let mount Zion rejoice, let the daughters of Judah be glad, because of thy judgments. 48:12Walk about Zion, and go round about her: count the towers thereof; 48:13Mark ye well her bulwarks, consider her palaces: that ye may tell it to the generation following. 48:14For this God is our God for ever and ever; he will be our guide until death. 48:15
49:1{To the chief Musician. Of the sons of Korah. A Psalm.} Hear this, all ye peoples; give ear, all inhabitants of the world: 49:2Both men of low and men of high degree, rich and poor alike. 49:3My mouth shall speak wisdom, and the meditation of my heart shall be of understanding: 49:4I will incline mine ear to a parable, I will open my riddle upon the harp. 49:5Wherefore should I fear in the days of adversity, [when] the iniquity of my supplanters encompasseth me? 49:6They depend upon their wealth, and boast themselves in the abundance of their riches. 49:7None can by any means redeem his brother, nor give to God a ransom for him, 49:8(For the redemption of their soul is costly, and must be given up for ever,) 49:9That he should still live perpetually, [and] not see corruption. 49:10For he seeth that wise men die; all alike, the fool and the brutish perish, and they leave their wealth to others. 49:11Their inward thought is, that their houses are for ever, their dwelling-places from generation to generation: they call the lands after their own names. 49:12Nevertheless, man being in honour abideth not: he is like the beasts that perish. 49:13This their way is their folly, yet they that come after them delight in their sayings. Selah. 49:14Like sheep are they laid in Sheol: Death feedeth on them; and the upright shall have dominion over them in the morning; and their comeliness shall be for Sheol to consume, that there be no habitation for them. 49:15But God will redeem my soul from the power of Sheol: for he will receive me. Selah. 49:16Be not afraid when a man becometh rich, when the glory of his house is increased: 49:17For when he dieth, he shall carry nothing away; his glory shall not descend after him. 49:18Though he blessed his soul in his lifetime, and men will praise thee when thou doest well to thyself, 49:19It shall go to the generation of his fathers: they shall never see light. 49:20Man that is in honour, and understandeth not, is like the beasts that perish.
50:1{A Psalm. Of Asaph.} God, Elohim-Jehovah, hath spoken, and called the earth from the rising of the sun unto the going down thereof. 50:2Out of Zion, the perfection of beauty, God hath shined forth. 50:3Our God will come, and will not keep silence: fire shall devour before him, and it shall be very tempestuous round about him. 50:4He will call to the heavens from above, and to the earth, that he may judge his people: 50:5Gather unto me my godly ones, those that have made a covenant with me by sacrifice! 50:6And the heavens shall declare his righteousness; for God executeth judgment himself. Selah. 50:7Hear, my people, and I will speak; O Israel, and I will testify unto thee: I am God, thy God. 50:8I will not reprove thee for thy sacrifices, or thy burnt-offerings, continually before me; 50:9I will take no bullock out of thy house, [nor] he-goats out of thy folds: 50:10For every beast of the forest is mine, the cattle upon a thousand hills; 50:11I know all the fowl of the mountains, and the roaming creatures of the field are mine: 50:12If I were hungry, I would not tell thee; for the world is mine, and the fulness thereof. 50:13Should I eat the flesh of bulls, and drink the blood of goats? 50:14Offer unto God thanksgiving, and perform thy vows unto the Most High; 50:15And call upon me in the day of trouble; I will deliver thee, and thou shalt glorify me. 50:16But unto the wicked God saith, What hast thou to do to declare my statutes, or that thou shouldest take my covenant into thy mouth, 50:17Seeing thou hast hated correction and hast cast my words behind thee? 50:18When thou sawest a thief, thou didst take pleasure in him, and thy portion was with adulterers; 50:19Thou lettest thy mouth loose to evil, and thy tongue frameth deceit; 50:20Thou sittest [and] speakest against thy brother, thou revilest thine own mother's son: 50:21These [things] hast thou done, and I kept silence; thou thoughtest that I was altogether as thyself: [but] I will reprove thee, and set [them] in order before thine eyes. 50:22Now consider this, ye that forget God, lest I tear in pieces, and there be no deliverer. 50:23Whoso offereth praise glorifieth me; and to him that ordereth [his] way will I shew the salvation of God. 50:24 50:25
51:1{To the chief Musician. A Psalm of David; when Nathan the prophet came to him, after he had gone in to Bath-sheba.} Be gracious unto me, O God, according to thy loving-kindness; according to the abundance of thy tender mercies, blot out my transgressions. 51:2Wash me fully from mine iniquity, and cleanse me from my sin. 51:3For I acknowledge my transgressions, and my sin is continually before me. 51:4Against thee, thee only, have I sinned, and done what is evil in thy sight; that thou mayest be justified when thou speakest, be clear when thou judgest. 51:5Behold, in iniquity was I brought forth, and in sin did my mother conceive me. 51:6Behold, thou wilt have truth in the inward parts; and in the hidden [part] thou wilt make me to know wisdom. 51:7Purge me with hyssop, and I shall be clean; wash me, and I shall be whiter than snow. 51:8Make me to hear gladness and joy; [that] the bones which thou hast broken may rejoice. 51:9Hide thy face from my sins, and blot out all mine iniquities. 51:10Create in me a clean heart, O God, and renew a steadfast spirit within me. 51:11Cast me not away from thy presence, and take not the spirit of thy holiness from me. 51:12Restore unto me the joy of thy salvation, and let a willing spirit sustain me. 51:13I will teach transgressors thy ways, and sinners shall return unto thee. 51:14Deliver me from blood-guiltiness, O God, thou God of my salvation: my tongue shall sing aloud of thy righteousness. 51:15Lord, open my lips, and my mouth shall declare thy praise. 51:16For thou desirest not sacrifice; else would I give it: thou hast no pleasure in burnt-offering. 51:17The sacrifices of God are a broken spirit: a broken and a contrite heart, O God, thou wilt not despise. 51:18Do good in thy good pleasure unto Zion; build the walls of Jerusalem. 51:19Then shalt thou have sacrifices of righteousness, burnt-offering, and whole burnt-offering; then shall they offer up bullocks upon thine altar. 51:20 51:21
52:1{To the chief Musician: an instruction. Of David; when Doeg the Edomite came and told Saul, and said unto him, David came to the house of Ahimelech.} Why boastest thou thyself in evil, thou mighty man? The loving-kindness of God [abideth] continually. 52:2Thy tongue deviseth mischievous things, like a sharp razor, practising deceit. 52:3Thou hast loved evil rather than good, lying rather than to speak righteousness. Selah. 52:4Thou hast loved all devouring words, O deceitful tongue! 52:5God shall likewise destroy thee for ever; he shall take thee away, and pluck thee out of [thy] tent, and root thee out of the land of the living. Selah. 52:6The righteous also shall see, and fear, and shall laugh at him, [saying,] 52:7Behold the man that made not God his strength, but put confidence in the abundance of his riches, [and] strengthened himself in his avarice. 52:8But as for me, I am like a green olive-tree in the house of God: I will confide in the loving-kindness of God for ever and ever. 52:9I will praise thee for ever, because thou hast done [it]; and I will wait on thy name, before thy godly ones, for it is good. 52:10
53:1{To the chief Musician. On Mahalath: an instruction. Of David.} The fool hath said in his heart, There is no God! They have corrupted themselves, and have done abominable iniquity: there is none that doeth good. 53:2God looked down from the heavens upon the children of men, to see if there were any that did understand, that did seek God. 53:3Every one of them is gone back, they are together become corrupt: there is none that doeth good, not even one. 53:4Have the workers of iniquity no knowledge, eating up my people [as] they eat bread? they call not upon God. 53:5There were they in great fear, where no fear was; for God scattereth the bones of him that encampeth against thee. Thou hast put [them] to shame, for God hath despised them. 53:6Oh that the salvation of Israel were come out of Zion! When God turneth again the captivity of his people, Jacob shall be glad, Israel shall rejoice.
54:1{To the chief Musician. On stringed instruments: an instruction. Of David; when the Ziphites came, and said to Saul, Is not David hiding himself with us?} O God, by thy name save me, and by thy strength do me justice. 54:2O God, hear my prayer; give ear to the words of my mouth. 54:3For strangers are risen up against me, and the violent seek after my life: they have not set God before them. Selah. 54:4Behold, God is my helper; the Lord is among them that uphold my soul. 54:5He will requite evil to mine enemies: in thy truth cut them off. 54:6I will freely sacrifice unto thee; I will praise thy name, O Jehovah, because it is good. 54:7For he hath delivered me out of all trouble; and mine eye hath seen [its desire] upon mine enemies.
55:1{To the chief Musician. On stringed instruments: an instruction. Of David.} Give ear to my prayer, O God; and hide not thyself from my supplication. 55:2Attend unto me, and answer me: I wander about in my plaint, and I moan aloud, 55:3Because of the voice of the enemy; because of the oppression of the wicked: for they cast iniquity upon me, and in anger they persecute me. 55:4My heart is writhing within me, and the terrors of death are fallen upon me. 55:5Fear and trembling are come upon me, and horror hath overwhelmed me. 55:6And I said, Oh that I had wings like a dove! I would fly away, and be at rest; 55:7Behold, I would flee afar off, I would lodge in the wilderness; Selah; 55:8I would hasten my escape from the stormy wind, from the tempest. 55:9Swallow [them] up, Lord; divide their tongue: for I have seen violence and strife in the city. 55:10Day and night they go about it upon the walls thereof; and iniquity and mischief are in the midst of it. 55:11Perversities are in the midst thereof; and oppression and deceit depart not from its streets. 55:12For it is not an enemy that hath reproached me then could I have borne it; neither is it he that hateth me that hath magnified [himself] against me then would I have hidden myself from him; 55:13But it was thou, a man mine equal, mine intimate, my familiar friend. 55:14We who held sweet intercourse together. To the house of God we walked amid the throng. 55:15Let death seize upon them, let them go down alive into Sheol. For wickedness is in their dwellings, in their midst. 55:16As for me, unto God will I call; and Jehovah will save me. 55:17Evening, and morning, and at noon, will I pray and moan aloud; and he will hear my voice. 55:18He hath redeemed my soul in peace from the battle against me: for there were many about me. 55:19God will hear, and afflict them: he that is seated of old, (Selah) because there is no change in them, and they fear not God. 55:20He hath put forth his hands against such as are at peace with him; he hath profaned his covenant. 55:21Smooth were the milky [words] of his mouth, but his heart was war; his words were softer than oil, yet are they drawn swords. 55:22Cast thy burden upon Jehovah, and *he* will sustain thee: he will never suffer the righteous to be moved. 55:23And thou, O God, wilt bring them down into the pit of destruction: bloody and deceitful men shall not live out half their days. But as for me, I will confide in thee. 55:24
56:1{To the chief Musician. On Jonathelem-rechokim. Of David. Michtam; when the Philistines took him in Gath.} Be gracious unto me, O God; for man would swallow me up: all the day long fighting he oppresseth me. 56:2Mine enemies would swallow [me] up all the day long; for they are many that fight against me haughtily. 56:3In the day that I am afraid, I will confide in thee. 56:4In God will I praise his word, in God I put my confidence: I will not fear; what can flesh do unto me? 56:5All the day long they wrest my words; all their thoughts are against me for evil. 56:6They gather themselves together, they hide themselves; they mark my steps, because they wait for my soul. 56:7Shall they escape by iniquity? In anger cast down the peoples, O God. 56:8*Thou* countest my wanderings; put my tears into thy bottle: are they not in thy book? 56:9Then shall mine enemies return backward in the day when I call: this I know, for God is for me. 56:10In God will I praise [his] word; in Jehovah will I praise [his] word. 56:11In God have I put my confidence: I will not fear; what can man do unto me? 56:12Thy vows are upon me, O God: I will render thanks unto thee. 56:13For thou hast delivered my soul from death; [wilt thou] not [keep] my feet from falling, that I may walk before God in the light of the living? 56:14
57:1{To the chief Musician. 'Destroy not.' Of David. Michtam; when he fled from Saul in the cave.} Be gracious unto me, O God, be gracious unto me; for my soul taketh refuge in thee: yea, in the shadow of thy wings do I take refuge, until the calamities be overpast. 57:2I will call unto God, the Most High; unto God that performeth [all] for me. 57:3He will send from the heavens and save me; he hath covered with reproach him that would swallow me up. Selah. God hath sent forth his loving-kindness and his truth. 57:4My soul is in the midst of lions; I lie down [among] them that breathe out flames, the sons of men, whose teeth are spears and arrows, and their tongue a sharp sword. 57:5Be exalted above the heavens, O God; let thy glory be above all the earth! 57:6They have prepared a net for my steps; my soul was bowed down: they have digged a pit before me; they are fallen into the midst thereof. Selah. 57:7My heart is fixed, O God, my heart is fixed: I will sing, yea, I will sing psalms. 57:8Awake, my glory; awake, lute and harp: I will wake the dawn. 57:9I will give thee thanks among the peoples, O Lord; of thee will I sing psalms among the nations: 57:10For thy loving-kindness is great unto the heavens, and thy truth unto the clouds. 57:11Be exalted above the heavens, O God; let thy glory be above all the earth! 57:12