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<!DOCTYPE html PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD XHTML 1.0 Transitional//EN" "http://www.w3.org/TR/xhtml1/DTD/xhtml1-transitional.dtd"><html xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml"><head><meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html; charset=utf-8" /><meta name="viewport" content="width=device-width, initial-scale=1"><title>Psalm 55 Smith's Literal Translation</title><link rel="stylesheet" href="/chapnew2.css" type="text/css" media="Screen" /><link rel="stylesheet" href="../spec.css" type="text/css" media="Screen" /><link rel="stylesheet" href="/print.css" type="text/css" media="Print" /></head><body><div id="fx"><table width="100%" border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" id="fx2"><tr><td><iframe width="100%" height="30" scrolling="no" src="../cmenus/psalms/55.htm" align="left" frameborder="0"></iframe></td></tr></table></div><div id="blnk"></div><div align="center"><table width="100%" border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" class="maintable"><tr><td><div id="fx5"><table width="100%" border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" id="fx6"><tr><td><iframe width="100%" height="245" scrolling="no" src="../topmenuchap/psalms/55-1.htm" frameborder="0"></iframe></td></tr></table></div></td></tr></table></div><div align="center"><table width="100%" border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" class="maintable3"><tr><td><table width="100%" border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" align="center" id="announce"><tr><td><div id="l1"><div id="breadcrumbs"><a href="http://biblehub.com">Bible</a> > <a href="../">SLT</a> > Psalm 55</div><div id="anc"><iframe src="/anc.htm" width="100%" height="27" scrolling="no" frameborder="0"></iframe></div><div id="anc2"><table width="100%" border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" align="center"><tr><td><iframe src="/anc2.htm" width="100%" height="27" scrolling="no" frameborder="0"></iframe></td></tr></table></div></div></td></tr></table><div id="movebox2"><table width="100%" border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" align="center"><tr><td><iframe src="../menu.htm" width="100%" height="48" scrolling="no" frameborder="0"></iframe></td></tr></table><table border="0" align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0"><tr><td><div id="topheading"><a href="../psalms/54.htm" title="Psalm 54">◄</a> Psalm 55 <a href="../psalms/56.htm" title="Psalm 56">►</a></div></td></tr></table></div><div align="center" class="maintable2"><table border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" align="center"><tr><td><div id="leftbox"><div class="padleft"><div class="vheading"><table width="100%"><tr><td width="99%" valign="top">Smith's Literal Translation</td><td width="1%" valign="top"><a href="/parallel/psalms/55-1.htm" style="color:#001320" title="Parallel Verses"> Par ▾ </a></tr></table></div><div class="chap"><A name="2"></a><p class="hdg">Cast Your Burden upon the LORD<br /><span class="cross">(<a href ="../2_samuel/17.htm#15">2 Samuel 17:15–29</a>)</span><p><span class="reftext"><a href="/psalms/55-1.htm"><b>1</b></a></span>To the overseer upon the stringed instrument, instruction to David. Give ear O God, to my prayer; thou wilt not hide thyself from my supplication.<p> <A name="3"></a><span class="reftext"><a href="/psalms/55-2.htm"><b>2</b></a></span>Attend to me and answer me; I shall flow down and make a noise in my complaint.<p> <A name="4"></a><span class="reftext"><a href="/psalms/55-3.htm"><b>3</b></a></span>From the voice of the enemy, from the face of the oppression of the unjust one: for they will bring down vanity upon me, for in anger they will lie in wait for me.<p> <A name="5"></a><span class="reftext"><a href="/psalms/55-4.htm"><b>4</b></a></span>My heart will be pained within me, and the terrors of death fell upon me.<p> <A name="6"></a><span class="reftext"><a href="/psalms/55-5.htm"><b>5</b></a></span>Fear and trembling will come upon me, and horror will cover me.<p> <A name="7"></a><span class="reftext"><a href="/psalms/55-6.htm"><b>6</b></a></span>And saying, Who will give me the wing-feather as a dove? I will fly away and settle down.<p> <A name="8"></a><span class="reftext"><a href="/psalms/55-7.htm"><b>7</b></a></span>Behold, I will move far off; fleeing away I will lodge in the desert. Silence.<p> <A name="9"></a><span class="reftext"><a href="/psalms/55-8.htm"><b>8</b></a></span>I will hasten escape to me from the rushing wind, from the storm.<p> <A name="10"></a><span class="reftext"><a href="/psalms/55-9.htm"><b>9</b></a></span>Swallow up, O Jehovah, divide their tongue: for I saw violence and strife in the city.<p> <A name="11"></a><span class="reftext"><a href="/psalms/55-10.htm"><b>10</b></a></span>Day and night they will surround it upon its walls: and vanity and trouble in her midst.<p> <A name="12"></a><span class="reftext"><a href="/psalms/55-11.htm"><b>11</b></a></span>Mischief in her midst: oppression and deceit will not depart from her wide place.<p> <A name="13"></a><span class="reftext"><a href="/psalms/55-12.htm"><b>12</b></a></span>For not the enemy will reproach me, and I will bear: not he hating me magnified against me; and I will hide from him.<p> <A name="14"></a><span class="reftext"><a href="/psalms/55-13.htm"><b>13</b></a></span>And thou a man according to my estimation, my friend and my acquaintance.<p> <A name="15"></a><span class="reftext"><a href="/psalms/55-14.htm"><b>14</b></a></span>Who together made sweet the intercourse, we will go into the house of God with the multitude.<p> <A name="16"></a><span class="reftext"><a href="/psalms/55-15.htm"><b>15</b></a></span>Death shall lay waste upon them; they shall go down living to hades, for evils in their sojournings in the midst of them.<p> <A name="17"></a><span class="reftext"><a href="/psalms/55-16.htm"><b>16</b></a></span>I will call upon God, and Jehovah will save me:<p> <A name="18"></a><span class="reftext"><a href="/psalms/55-17.htm"><b>17</b></a></span>Evening and morning and noon I will meditate and make a noise, and he will hear my voice.<p> <A name="19"></a><span class="reftext"><a href="/psalms/55-18.htm"><b>18</b></a></span>He redeemed my soul in peace from the encounter against me: for with many they were with me.<p> <A name="20"></a><span class="reftext"><a href="/psalms/55-19.htm"><b>19</b></a></span>God will hear and he will humble them, and he dwelt of old. Silence. With whom no changes to them and they feared not God.<p> <A name="21"></a><span class="reftext"><a href="/psalms/55-20.htm"><b>20</b></a></span>He stretched forth his hand in his recompenses: he profaned his covenant.<p> <A name="22"></a><span class="reftext"><a href="/psalms/55-21.htm"><b>21</b></a></span>They were divided from the wrath of his mouth, and his heart drew near: his words were soft above oil, and they drawn swords.<p> <A name="23"></a><span class="reftext"><a href="/psalms/55-22.htm"><b>22</b></a></span>Cast thy giving upon Jehovah and he will sustain thee: he will not give forever a wavering to the just one.<p> <A name=""></a><span class="reftext"><a href="/psalms/55-23.htm"><b>23</b></a></span>And thou, O God, wilt bring them down to the well of destruction: men of bloods and deceit shall not halve their days; and I will trust in thee.<p><br /></div></div><div id="botbox"><div class="padbot"><div align="center">The Holy Bible Containing the Old and New Testaments; Translated Literally From The Original Tongues by Julia E. 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