<< Psalm 56 >>
New American Standard ©


Supplication for Deliverance and Grateful Trust in God.

For the choir director; according to Jonath elem rehokim. A Mikhtam of David, when the Philistines seized him in Gath.

1 Be gracious to me, O God, for man has trampled upon me;
         Fighting all day long he oppresses me.
2 My foes have trampled upon me all day long,
         For they are many who fight proudly against me.
3 When I am afraid,
         I will put my trust in You.
4 In God, whose word I praise,
         In God I have put my trust;
         I shall not be afraid.
         What can mere man do to me?
5 All day long they distort my words;
         All their thoughts are against me for evil.
6 They attack, they lurk,
         They watch my steps,
         As they have waited to take my life.
7 Because of wickedness, cast them forth,
         In anger put down the peoples, O God!
8 You have taken account of my wanderings;
         Put my tears in Your bottle.
         Are they not in Your book?
9 Then my enemies will turn back in the day when I call;
         This I know, that God is for me.
10 In God, whose word I praise,
         In the LORD, whose word I praise,
11 In God I have put my trust, I shall not be afraid.
         What can man do to me?
12 Your vows are binding upon me, O God;
         I will render thank offerings to You.
13 For You have delivered my soul from death,
         Indeed my feet from stumbling,
         So that I may walk before God
         In the light of the living.

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