Psalms 54

1 Let your name be my salvation, O God; let my cause be judged by your strength.

1Unto the end, in verses, understanding for David.

2Let my prayer come before you, O God; give ear to the words of my mouth.

2Hear, O God, my prayer, and despise not my supplication:

3For men who are going after me have come out against me, violent men are purposing to take my soul; they have not put God before their eyes. (Selah.)

3Be attentive to me and hear me. I am grieved in my exercise; and am troubled,

4See, God is my helper: the Lord is the great supporter of my soul.

4At the voice of the enemy, and at the tribulation of the sinner. For they have cast iniquities upon me: and in wrath they were troublesome to me.

5Let the evil works of my haters come back on them again; let them be cut off by your good faith.

5My heart is troubled within me: and the fear of death is fallen upon me.

6Freely will I make my offerings to you; I will give praise to your name, O Lord, for it is good.

6Fear and trembling are come upon me: and darkness hath covered me.

7Because it has been my saviour from all my trouble; and my eyes have seen the punishment of my haters.

7And I said: Who will give me wings like a dove, and I will fly and be at rest?

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8Lo, I have gone far off flying away; and I abode in the wilderness.

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9I waited for him that hath saved me from pusillanimity of spirit, and a storm.

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10Cast down, O Lord, and divide their tongues; for I have seen iniquity and contradiction in the city.

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11Day and night shall iniquity surround it upon its walls: and in the midst thereof are labour,

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12And injustice. And usury and deceit have not departed from its streets.

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13For if my enemy had reviled me, I would verily have borne with it. And if he that hated me had spoken great things against me, I would perhaps have hidden my self from him.

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14But thou a man of one mind, my guide, and my familiar,

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15Who didst take sweetmeats together with me: in the house of God we walked with consent.

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16Let death come upon them, and let them go down alive into hell. For there is wickedness in their dwellings: in the midst of them.

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17But I have cried to God: and the Lord will save me.

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18Evening and morning, and at noon I will speak and declare: and he shall hear my voice.

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19He shall redeem my soul in peace from them that draw near to me: for among many they were with me.

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20God shall hear, and the Eternal shall humble them. For there is no change with them, and they have not feared God:

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21He hath stretched forth his hand to repay. They have defiled his covenant,

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22They are divided by the wrath of his countenance, and his heart hath drawn near. His words are smoother than oil, and the same are darts.

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23Cast thy care upon the Lord, and he shall sustain thee: he shall not suffer the just to waver for ever.

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24But thou, O God, shalt bring them down into the pit of destruction. Bloody and deceitful men shall not live out half their days; but I will trust in thee, O Lord.