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Psalms 55
Unto the end, in verses, understanding for David.
Hear, O God, my prayer, and despise not my supplication:
the same are darts.
be attentive to me and hear me. I am grieved in my exercise;
and am troubled,
at 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.
My heart is troubled within me: and the fear of death
is fallen upon me.
Fear and trembling are come upon me: and darkness hath
covered me.
And I said: Who will give me wings like a dove, and
I will fly and be at rest?
Lo, I have gone far off flying away; and I abode in
the wilderness.
I waited for him that hath saved me from pusillanimity
of spirit, and a storm.
Cast down, O Lord, and divide their tongues; for I have
seen iniquity and contradiction in the city.
Day and night shall iniquity surround it upon its walls:
and in the midst thereof are labour,
and injustice. And usury and deceit have not departed
from its streets.
For 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 myself
from him.
But thou a man of one mind, my guide, and my familiar,
Who didst take sweetmeats together with me: in the house
of God we walked with consent.
Let death come upon them, and let them go down alive
into hell. For there is wickedness in their dwellings:
in the midst of them.
But I have cried to God: and the Lord will save me.
Evening and morning, and at noon I will speak and declare:
and he shall hear my voice.
He shall redeem my soul in peace from them that draw
near to me: for among many they were with me.
God shall hear, and the Eternal shall humble them. For
there is no change with them, and they have not feared
God:
he hath stretched forth his hand to repay. They have
defiled his covenant,
they are divided by the wrath Of his countenance, and
his heart hath drawn near. His words are smoother than
oil, and
Cast thy care upon the Lord, and he shall sustain thee:
he shall not suffer the just to waver for ever.
But 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. |
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