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Psalms 55
DBY
Darby Bible · 1890
DRA
Douay-Rheims (Challoner) · 1752
1 Give ear to my prayer, OGod; and hide not thyself from my supplication.
1Unto the end, for a people that is removed at a distance from the sanctuary: for David, for an inscription of a title (or pillar) when the Philistines held him in Geth.
2 Attend unto me, and answer me: I wander about in my plaint, and I moan aloud,
2Have mercy on me, O God, for man hath trodden me under foot; all the day long he hath afflicted me fighting against me.
3 Because 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.
3My enemies have trodden on me all the day long; for they are many that make war against me.
4 My heart is writhing within me, and the terrors of death are fallen upon me.
4From the height of the day I shall fear: but I will trust in thee.
5 Fear and trembling are come upon me, and horror hath overwhelmed me.
5In God I will praise my words, in God I have put my trust: I will not fear what flesh can do against me.
6 And I said, Oh that I had wings like a dove! I would fly away, and be at rest;
6All the day long they detested my words: all their thoughts were against me unto evil.
7 Behold, I would flee afar off, I would lodge in the wilderness; Selah;
7They will dwell and hide themselves: they will watch my heel. As they have waited for my soul,
8 I would hasten my escape from the stormy wind, from the tempest.
8For nothing shalt thou save them: in thy anger thou shalt break the people in pieces. O God,
9 Swallow [them] up, Lord; divide their tongue: for I have seen violence and strife in the city.
9I have declared to thee my life: thou hast set me tears in thy sight, As also in thy promise.
10 Day and night they go about it upon the walls thereof; and iniquity and mischief are in the midst of it.
10Then shall my enemies be turned back. In what day soever I shall call upon thee, behold I know thou art my God.
11 Perversities are in the midst thereof; and oppression and deceit depart not from its streets.
11In God will I praise the word, in the Lord will I praise his speech. In God have I hoped, I will not fear what man can do to me.
12 For 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;
12In me, O God, are vows to thee, which I will pay, praises to thee:
13 But it was thou, a man mine equal, mine intimate, my familiar friend. ...
13Because thou hast delivered my soul from death, my feet from falling: that I may please in the sight of God, in the light of the living.
14 We who held sweet intercourse together. To the house ofGod we walked amid the throng.
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15 Let death seize upon them, let them go down alive into Sheol. For wickedness is in their dwellings, in their midst.
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17 Evening, and morning, and at noon, will I pray and moan aloud; and he will hear my voice.
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18 He hath redeemed my soul in peace from the battle against me: for there were many about me.
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19 God will hear, and afflict them: he that is seated of old, (Selah) ...because there is no change in them, and they fear notGod.
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20 He hath put forth his hands against such as are at peace with him; he hath profaned his covenant.
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21 Smooth were the milky [words] of his mouth, but his heart was war; his words were softer than oil, yet are they drawn swords.
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