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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 Catholic Public Domain Version</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="../">CPDV</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">Catholic Public Domain Version</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><V 54:1>Unto the end. In verses, the understanding of David. <V 54:2>Listen to my prayer, O God, and despise not my supplication.<p> <A name="3"></a><span class="reftext"><a href="/psalms/55-2.htm"><b>2</b></a></span><V 54:3>Be attentive to me, and heed me. I have been grieved in my training, and I have been disturbed<p> <A name="4"></a><span class="reftext"><a href="/psalms/55-3.htm"><b>3</b></a></span><V 54:4>at the voice of the adversary and at the tribulation of the sinner. For they have diverted iniquities toward me, and they have been harassing me with rage.<p> <A name="5"></a><span class="reftext"><a href="/psalms/55-4.htm"><b>4</b></a></span><V 54:5>My heart has become disturbed within me, and the dread of death has fallen over me.<p> <A name="6"></a><span class="reftext"><a href="/psalms/55-5.htm"><b>5</b></a></span><V 54:6>Fear and trembling have overwhelmed me, and darkness has buried me.<p> <A name="7"></a><span class="reftext"><a href="/psalms/55-6.htm"><b>6</b></a></span><V 54:7>And I said, “Who will give me wings like the dove, so that I may fly away and take rest?”<p> <A name="8"></a><span class="reftext"><a href="/psalms/55-7.htm"><b>7</b></a></span><V 54:8>Behold, I have fled far away, and I linger in solitude.<p> <A name="9"></a><span class="reftext"><a href="/psalms/55-8.htm"><b>8</b></a></span><V 54:9>I waited for him who saved me from a weak-minded spirit and from a tempest.<p> <A name="10"></a><span class="reftext"><a href="/psalms/55-9.htm"><b>9</b></a></span><V 54:10>Cast them down, O Lord, and divide their tongues. For I have seen iniquity and contradiction in the city.<p> <A name="11"></a><span class="reftext"><a href="/psalms/55-10.htm"><b>10</b></a></span><V 54:11>Day and night, iniquity will surround it upon its walls, and hardship is in its midst,<p> <A name="12"></a><span class="reftext"><a href="/psalms/55-11.htm"><b>11</b></a></span><V 54:12>with injustice. And usury and deceit have not fallen away from its streets.<p> <A name="13"></a><span class="reftext"><a href="/psalms/55-12.htm"><b>12</b></a></span><V 54:13>For if my enemy had spoken evil about me, certainly, I would have sustained it. And if he who hated me had been speaking great things against me, I would perhaps have hidden myself from him.<p> <A name="14"></a><span class="reftext"><a href="/psalms/55-13.htm"><b>13</b></a></span><V 54:14>Truly, you are a man of one mind: my leader and my acquaintance,<p> <A name="15"></a><span class="reftext"><a href="/psalms/55-14.htm"><b>14</b></a></span><V 54:15>who took sweet food together with me. In the house of God, we walked side-by-side.<p> <A name="16"></a><span class="reftext"><a href="/psalms/55-15.htm"><b>15</b></a></span><V 54:16>Let death come upon them, and let them descend alive into Hellfire. For there is wickedness in their dwellings, in their midst.<p> <A name="17"></a><span class="reftext"><a href="/psalms/55-16.htm"><b>16</b></a></span><V 54:17>But I have cried out to God, and the Lord will save me.<p> <A name="18"></a><span class="reftext"><a href="/psalms/55-17.htm"><b>17</b></a></span><V 54:18>Evening and morning and midday, I will discourse and announce, and he will heed my voice.<p> <A name="19"></a><span class="reftext"><a href="/psalms/55-18.htm"><b>18</b></a></span><V 54:19>He will redeem my soul in peace from those who draw near to me. For, among the many, they were with me.<p> <A name="20"></a><span class="reftext"><a href="/psalms/55-19.htm"><b>19</b></a></span><V 54:20>God will hear, and He who is before time will humble them. For there is no change with them, and they have not feared God.<p> <A name="21"></a><span class="reftext"><a href="/psalms/55-20.htm"><b>20</b></a></span><V 54:21>He has stretched forth his hand in retribution. They have contaminated his covenant.<p> <A name="22"></a><span class="reftext"><a href="/psalms/55-21.htm"><b>21</b></a></span><V 54:22>They were divided by the wrath of his countenance, and his heart has drawn near. His words are smoother than oil, and they are arrows.<p> <A name="23"></a><span class="reftext"><a href="/psalms/55-22.htm"><b>22</b></a></span><V 54:23>Cast your cares upon the Lord, and he will nurture you. He will not allow the just to be tossed about forever.<p> <A name=""></a><span class="reftext"><a href="/psalms/55-23.htm"><b>23</b></a></span><V 54:24>Truly, O God, you will lead them away into the well of death. Bloody and deceitful men will not divide their days in half. 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