{"collection":"Bible & Christianity","html_url":"https://unchartedknowledge.5gfusion.net/browse/bib/jps/psa055.htm","path":"bib/jps/psa055.htm","source_url":"https://sacred-texts.com/bib/jps/psa055.htm","text":"55:1 For the Leader; with string-music. Maschil of David.\n55:2 Give ear, O God, to my prayer; and hide not Thyself from my supplication.\n55:3 Attend unto me, and hear me; I am distraught in my complaint, and will moan;\n55:4 Because of the voice of the enemy, because of the oppression of the wicked; for they cast mischief upon me, and in anger they persecute me.\n55:5 My heart doth writhe within me; and the terrors of death are fallen upon me.\n55:6 Fear and trembling come upon me, and horror hath overwhelmed me.\n55:7 And I said: 'Oh that I had wings like a dove! then would I fly away, and be at rest.\n55:8 Lo, then would I wander far off, I would lodge in the wilderness. Selah\n55:9 I would haste me to a shelter from the stormy wind and tempest.'\n55:10 Destroy, O Lord, and divide their tongue; for I have seen violence and strife in the city.\n55:11 Day and night they go about it upon the walls thereof; iniquity also and mischief are in the midst of it.\n55:12 Wickedness is in the midst thereof; oppression and guile depart not from her broad place.\n55:13 For it was not an enemy that taunted me, then I could have borne it; neither was it mine adversary that did magnify himself against me, then I would have hid myself from him.\n55:14 But it was thou, a man mine equal, my companion, and my familiar friend;\n55:15 We took sweet counsel together, in the house of God we walked with the throng.\n55:16 May He incite death against them, let them go down alive into the nether-world; for evil is in their dwelling, and within them.\n55:17 As for me, I will call upon God; and the Lord shall save me.\n55:18 Evening, and morning, and at noon, will I complain, and moan; and He hath heard my voice.\n55:19 He hath redeemed my soul in peace so that none came nigh me; for they were many that strove with me.\n55:20 God shall hear, and humble them, even He that is enthroned of old, Selah, such as have no changes, and fear not God.\n55:21 He hath put forth his hands against them that were at peace with him; he hath profaned his covenant.\n55:22 Smoother than cream were the speeches of his mouth, but his heart was war; his words were softer than oil, yet were they keen-edged swords.\n55:23 Cast thy burden upon the Lord, and He will sustain thee; He will never suffer the righteous to be moved.\n55:24 But Thou, O God, wilt bring them down into the nethermost pit; men of blood and deceit shall not live out half their days; but as for me, I will trust in Thee.","title":"Jewish Publication Society Bible: Psalms 55","type":"page"}