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All day long, he attacks and oppresses me.</p> <p class="reg"><span class="reftext"><a href="/psalms/56-2.htm"><b>2</b></a></span>My enemies want to swallow me up all day long, for they are many who fight proudly against me.</p> <p class="reg"><span class="reftext"><a href="/psalms/56-3.htm"><b>3</b></a></span>When I am afraid, I will put my trust in you.</p> <p class="reg"><span class="reftext"><a href="/psalms/56-4.htm"><b>4</b></a></span>In God, I praise his word. In God, I put my trust. I will not be afraid. What can flesh do to me?</p> <p class="reg"><span class="reftext"><a href="/psalms/56-5.htm"><b>5</b></a></span>All day long they twist my words. All their thoughts are against me for evil.</p> <p class="reg"><span class="reftext"><a href="/psalms/56-6.htm"><b>6</b></a></span>They conspire and lurk, watching my steps, they are eager to take my life.</p> <p class="reg"><span class="reftext"><a href="/psalms/56-7.htm"><b>7</b></a></span>Shall they escape by iniquity? In anger cast down the peoples, God.</p> <p class="reg"><span class="reftext"><a href="/psalms/56-8.htm"><b>8</b></a></span>You number my wanderings. You put my tears into your bottle. Aren't they in your book?</p> <p class="reg"><span class="reftext"><a href="/psalms/56-9.htm"><b>9</b></a></span>Then my enemies shall turn back in the day that I call. I know this, that God is for me.</p> <p class="reg"><span class="reftext"><a href="/psalms/56-10.htm"><b>10</b></a></span>In God, I will praise his word. In Yahweh, I will praise his word.</p> <p class="reg"><span class="reftext"><a href="/psalms/56-11.htm"><b>11</b></a></span>I have put my trust in God. I will not be afraid. What can man do to me?</p> <p class="reg"><span class="reftext"><a href="/psalms/56-12.htm"><b>12</b></a></span>Your vows are on me, God. I will give thank offerings to you.</p> <p class="reg"><span class="reftext"><a href="/psalms/56-13.htm"><b>13</b></a></span>For you have delivered my soul from death, and prevented my feet from falling, that I may walk before God in the light of the living. For the Chief Musician. To the tune of "Do Not Destroy." A poem by David, when he fled from Saul, in the cave.</p></div></div><div id="botbox"><div class="padbot"><div align="center">The World English Bible is a 1997 revision of the American Standard Version of the Holy Bible, first published in 1901. It is in the Public Domain. Please feel free to copy and distribute it freely. Thank you to Michael Paul Johnson for making this work available. 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