Psalms Chapter 55

55 : 1 Give ear to my prayer, O God, and hide not thyself from my supplication.

55 : 2 Attend to me, and answer me. I am restless in my complaint, and moan,

55 : 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.

55 : 4 My heart is greatly pained within me, and the terrors of death have fallen upon me.

55 : 5 Fearfulness and trembling have come upon me, and horror has overwhelmed me.

55 : 6 And I said, O that I had wings like a dove! Then I would fly away, and be at rest.

55 : 7 Lo, then I would wander far off. I would lodge in the wilderness. Selah.

55 : 8 I would hasten myself to a shelter from the stormy wind and tempest.

55 : 9 Destroy, O Lord, divide their tongue, for I have seen violence and strife in the city.

55 : 10 Day and night they go about it, upon the walls of it. Iniquity and mischief also are in the midst of it.

55 : 11 Wickedness is in the midst of it. Oppression and deceit depart not from its streets.

55 : 12 For it was not an enemy who reproached me. Then I could have borne it. Neither was it he who hated me that magnified himself against me. Then I would have hid myself from him.

55 : 13 But it was thou, a man my equal, my companion, and my familiar friend.

55 : 14 We took sweet counsel together. We walked in the house of God with the throng.

55 : 15 Let death come suddenly upon them. Let them go down alive into Sheol. For wickedness is in their dwelling, in the midst of them.

55 : 16 As for me, I will call upon God, and Jehovah will save me.

55 : 17 Evening, and morning, and at noonday, I will complain and moan. And he will hear my voice.

55 : 18 He has redeemed my soul in peace from the battle that was against me, for there were many by me.

55 : 19 God will hear, and respond to them, (even he who abides of old), Selah, men who have no changes, and who fear not God.

55 : 20 He has put forth his hands against such as were at peace with him. He has profaned his covenant.

55 : 21 His mouth was smooth as butter, but his heart was war. His words were softer than oil, yet they were drawn swords.

55 : 22 (Cast thy burden upon Jehovah, and he will sustain thee. He will never allow the righteous man to be moved.)

55 : 23 But thou, O God, will bring them down into the pit of destruction. Bloodthirsty and deceitful men shall not live out half their days, but I will trust in thee.