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[SET] ON “A SILENT DOVE FAR OFF.” A MIKTAM OF DAVID, IN THE PHILISTINES’ TAKING HOLD OF HIM IN GATH. Favor me, O God, for man swallowed me up, "" All the day fighting he oppresses me,<p> <A name="3"></a><span class="reftext"><a href="/psalms/56-2.htm"><b>2</b></a></span>My enemies have swallowed up all the day, "" For many [are] fighting against me, O Most High,<p> <A name="4"></a><span class="reftext"><a href="/psalms/56-3.htm"><b>3</b></a></span>[In] the day I am afraid I am confident toward You.<p> <A name="5"></a><span class="reftext"><a href="/psalms/56-4.htm"><b>4</b></a></span>In God I praise His word, in God I have trusted, "" I do not fear what flesh does to me.<p> <A name="6"></a><span class="reftext"><a href="/psalms/56-5.htm"><b>5</b></a></span>All the day they wrest my words, "" All their thoughts [are] for evil concerning me,<p> <A name="7"></a><span class="reftext"><a href="/psalms/56-6.htm"><b>6</b></a></span>They assemble, they hide, they watch my heels, "" When they have expected my soul.<p> <A name="8"></a><span class="reftext"><a href="/psalms/56-7.htm"><b>7</b></a></span>They escape by iniquity, "" In anger put down the peoples, O God.<p> <A name="9"></a><span class="reftext"><a href="/psalms/56-8.htm"><b>8</b></a></span>You have counted my wandering, "" You place my tear in Your bottle, "" Are they not in Your scroll?<p> <A name="10"></a><span class="reftext"><a href="/psalms/56-9.htm"><b>9</b></a></span>Then turn back my enemies in the day I call. This I have known, that God [is] for me.<p> <A name="11"></a><span class="reftext"><a href="/psalms/56-10.htm"><b>10</b></a></span>In God I praise the word, "" In YHWH I praise the word.<p> <A name="12"></a><span class="reftext"><a href="/psalms/56-11.htm"><b>11</b></a></span>In God I trusted, "" I do not fear what man does to me,<p> <A name="13"></a><span class="reftext"><a href="/psalms/56-12.htm"><b>12</b></a></span>On me, O God, [are] Your vows, "" I repay thank-offerings to You.<p> <A name=""></a><span class="reftext"><a href="/psalms/56-13.htm"><b>13</b></a></span>For You have delivered my soul from death, "" Do You not [keep] my feet from falling? To habitually walk before God in the light of the living!<p><br /></div></div><div id="botbox"><div class="padbot"><div align="center">Literal Standard Version<br>Copyright © 2022 by Covenant Press. 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