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With stringed instruments. A maskil of David. Listen to my prayer, O God, do not ignore my plea;<td width="50%" class="odd" valign="top"><span class="reftext"><a href="/psalms/55-1.htm"><b>1</b></a></span><span class="btext2">Give ear to my prayer, O God, and hide not yourself from my plea for mercy!</span></td></tr></table> <table width="100%" border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" align="center"><tr><td width="50%" class="even" valign="top"><span class="reftext"><a href="/psalms/55-2.htm"><b>2</b></a></span><span class="btext1">hear me and answer me. My thoughts trouble me and I am distraught<td width="50%" class="even" valign="top"><span class="reftext"><a href="/psalms/55-2.htm"><b>2</b></a></span><span class="btext2">Attend to me, and answer me; I am restless in my complaint and I moan,</span></td></tr></table> <table width="100%" border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" align="center"><tr><td width="50%" class="odd" valign="top"><span class="reftext"><a href="/psalms/55-3.htm"><b>3</b></a></span><span class="btext1">because of what my enemy is saying, because of the threats of the wicked; for they bring down suffering on me and assail me in their anger.<td width="50%" class="odd" valign="top"><span class="reftext"><a href="/psalms/55-3.htm"><b>3</b></a></span><span class="btext2">because of the noise of the enemy, because of the oppression of the wicked. For they drop trouble upon me, and in anger they bear a grudge against me.</span></td></tr></table> <table width="100%" border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" align="center"><tr><td width="50%" class="even" valign="top"><span class="reftext"><a href="/psalms/55-4.htm"><b>4</b></a></span><span class="btext1">My heart is in anguish within me; the terrors of death have fallen on me.<td width="50%" class="even" valign="top"><span class="reftext"><a href="/psalms/55-4.htm"><b>4</b></a></span><span class="btext2">My heart is in anguish within me; the terrors of death have fallen upon me.</span></td></tr></table> <table width="100%" border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" align="center"><tr><td width="50%" class="odd" valign="top"><span class="reftext"><a href="/psalms/55-5.htm"><b>5</b></a></span><span class="btext1">Fear and trembling have beset me; horror has overwhelmed me.<td width="50%" class="odd" valign="top"><span class="reftext"><a href="/psalms/55-5.htm"><b>5</b></a></span><span class="btext2">Fear and trembling come upon me, and horror overwhelms me.</span></td></tr></table> <table width="100%" border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" align="center"><tr><td width="50%" class="even" valign="top"><span class="reftext"><a href="/psalms/55-6.htm"><b>6</b></a></span><span class="btext1">I said, "Oh, that I had the wings of a dove! I would fly away and be at rest.<td width="50%" class="even" valign="top"><span class="reftext"><a href="/psalms/55-6.htm"><b>6</b></a></span><span class="btext2">And I say, “Oh, that I had wings like a dove! I would fly away and be at rest;</span></td></tr></table> <table width="100%" border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" align="center"><tr><td width="50%" class="odd" valign="top"><span class="reftext"><a href="/psalms/55-7.htm"><b>7</b></a></span><span class="btext1">I would flee far away and stay in the desert;<td width="50%" class="odd" valign="top"><span class="reftext"><a href="/psalms/55-7.htm"><b>7</b></a></span><span class="btext2">yes, I would wander far away; I would lodge in the wilderness; Selah</span></td></tr></table> <table width="100%" border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" align="center"><tr><td width="50%" class="even" valign="top"><span class="reftext"><a href="/psalms/55-8.htm"><b>8</b></a></span><span class="btext1">I would hurry to my place of shelter, far from the tempest and storm."<td width="50%" class="even" valign="top"><span class="reftext"><a href="/psalms/55-8.htm"><b>8</b></a></span><span class="btext2">I would hurry to find a shelter from the raging wind and tempest.”</span></td></tr></table> <table width="100%" border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" align="center"><tr><td width="50%" class="odd" valign="top"><span class="reftext"><a href="/psalms/55-9.htm"><b>9</b></a></span><span class="btext1">Lord, confuse the wicked, confound their words, for I see violence and strife in the city.<td width="50%" class="odd" valign="top"><span class="reftext"><a href="/psalms/55-9.htm"><b>9</b></a></span><span class="btext2">Destroy, O Lord, divide their tongues; for I see violence and strife in the city.</span></td></tr></table> <table width="100%" border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" align="center"><tr><td width="50%" class="even" valign="top"><span class="reftext"><a href="/psalms/55-10.htm"><b>10</b></a></span><span class="btext1">Day and night they prowl about on its walls; malice and abuse are within it.<td width="50%" class="even" valign="top"><span class="reftext"><a href="/psalms/55-10.htm"><b>10</b></a></span><span class="btext2">Day and night they go around it on its walls, and iniquity and trouble are within it;</span></td></tr></table> <table width="100%" border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" align="center"><tr><td width="50%" class="odd" valign="top"><span class="reftext"><a href="/psalms/55-11.htm"><b>11</b></a></span><span class="btext1">Destructive forces are at work in the city; threats and lies never leave its streets.<td width="50%" class="odd" valign="top"><span class="reftext"><a href="/psalms/55-11.htm"><b>11</b></a></span><span class="btext2">ruin is in its midst; oppression and fraud do not depart from its marketplace.</span></td></tr></table> <table width="100%" border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" align="center"><tr><td width="50%" class="even" valign="top"><span class="reftext"><a href="/psalms/55-12.htm"><b>12</b></a></span><span class="btext1">If an enemy were insulting me, I could endure it; if a foe were rising against me, I could hide.<td width="50%" class="even" valign="top"><span class="reftext"><a href="/psalms/55-12.htm"><b>12</b></a></span><span class="btext2">For it is not an enemy who taunts me— then I could bear it; it is not an adversary who deals insolently with me— then I could hide from him.</span></td></tr></table> <table width="100%" border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" align="center"><tr><td width="50%" class="odd" valign="top"><span class="reftext"><a href="/psalms/55-13.htm"><b>13</b></a></span><span class="btext1">But it is you, a man like myself, my companion, my close friend,<td width="50%" class="odd" valign="top"><span class="reftext"><a href="/psalms/55-13.htm"><b>13</b></a></span><span class="btext2">But it is you, a man, my equal, my companion, my familiar friend.</span></td></tr></table> <table width="100%" border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" align="center"><tr><td width="50%" class="even" valign="top"><span class="reftext"><a href="/psalms/55-14.htm"><b>14</b></a></span><span class="btext1">with whom I once enjoyed sweet fellowship at the house of God, as we walked about among the worshipers.<td width="50%" class="even" valign="top"><span class="reftext"><a href="/psalms/55-14.htm"><b>14</b></a></span><span class="btext2">We used to take sweet counsel together; within God’s house we walked in the throng.</span></td></tr></table> <table width="100%" border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" align="center"><tr><td width="50%" class="odd" valign="top"><span class="reftext"><a href="/psalms/55-15.htm"><b>15</b></a></span><span class="btext1">Let death take my enemies by surprise; let them go down alive to the realm of the dead, for evil finds lodging among them.<td width="50%" class="odd" valign="top"><span class="reftext"><a href="/psalms/55-15.htm"><b>15</b></a></span><span class="btext2">Let death steal over them; let them go down to Sheol alive; for evil is in their dwelling place and in their heart.</span></td></tr></table> <table width="100%" border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" align="center"><tr><td width="50%" class="even" valign="top"><span class="reftext"><a href="/psalms/55-16.htm"><b>16</b></a></span><span class="btext1">As for me, I call to God, and the LORD saves me.<td width="50%" class="even" valign="top"><span class="reftext"><a href="/psalms/55-16.htm"><b>16</b></a></span><span class="btext2">But I call to God, and the LORD will save me.</span></td></tr></table> <table width="100%" border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" align="center"><tr><td width="50%" class="odd" valign="top"><span class="reftext"><a href="/psalms/55-17.htm"><b>17</b></a></span><span class="btext1">Evening, morning and noon I cry out in distress, and he hears my voice.<td width="50%" class="odd" valign="top"><span class="reftext"><a href="/psalms/55-17.htm"><b>17</b></a></span><span class="btext2">Evening and morning and at noon I utter my complaint and moan, and he hears my voice.</span></td></tr></table> <table width="100%" border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" align="center"><tr><td width="50%" class="even" valign="top"><span class="reftext"><a href="/psalms/55-18.htm"><b>18</b></a></span><span class="btext1">He rescues me unharmed from the battle waged against me, even though many oppose me.<td width="50%" class="even" valign="top"><span class="reftext"><a href="/psalms/55-18.htm"><b>18</b></a></span><span class="btext2">He redeems my soul in safety from the battle that I wage, for many are arrayed against me.</span></td></tr></table> <table width="100%" border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" align="center"><tr><td width="50%" class="odd" valign="top"><span class="reftext"><a href="/psalms/55-19.htm"><b>19</b></a></span><span class="btext1">God, who is enthroned from of old, who does not change-- he will hear them and humble them, because they have no fear of God.<td width="50%" class="odd" valign="top"><span class="reftext"><a href="/psalms/55-19.htm"><b>19</b></a></span><span class="btext2">God will give ear and humble them, he who is enthroned from of old, Selah because they do not change and do not fear God.</span></td></tr></table> <table width="100%" border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" align="center"><tr><td width="50%" class="even" valign="top"><span class="reftext"><a href="/psalms/55-20.htm"><b>20</b></a></span><span class="btext1">My companion attacks his friends; he violates his covenant.<td width="50%" class="even" valign="top"><span class="reftext"><a href="/psalms/55-20.htm"><b>20</b></a></span><span class="btext2">My companion stretched out his hand against his friends; he violated his covenant.</span></td></tr></table> <table width="100%" border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" align="center"><tr><td width="50%" class="odd" valign="top"><span class="reftext"><a href="/psalms/55-21.htm"><b>21</b></a></span><span class="btext1">His talk is smooth as butter, yet war is in his heart; his words are more soothing than oil, yet they are drawn swords.<td width="50%" class="odd" valign="top"><span class="reftext"><a href="/psalms/55-21.htm"><b>21</b></a></span><span class="btext2">His speech was smooth as butter, yet war was in his heart; his words were softer than oil, yet they were drawn swords.</span></td></tr></table> <table width="100%" border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" align="center"><tr><td width="50%" class="even" valign="top"><span class="reftext"><a href="/psalms/55-22.htm"><b>22</b></a></span><span class="btext1">Cast your cares on the LORD and he will sustain you; he will never let the righteous be shaken.<td width="50%" class="even" valign="top"><span class="reftext"><a href="/psalms/55-22.htm"><b>22</b></a></span><span class="btext2">Cast your burden on the LORD, and he will sustain you; he will never permit the righteous to be moved.</span></td></tr></table> <table width="100%" border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" align="center"><tr><td width="50%" class="odd" valign="top"><span class="reftext"><a href="/psalms/55-23.htm"><b>23</b></a></span><span class="btext1">But you, God, will bring down the wicked into the pit of decay; the bloodthirsty and deceitful will not live out half their days. But as for me, I trust in you.<td width="50%" class="odd" valign="top"><span class="reftext"><a href="/psalms/55-23.htm"><b>23</b></a></span><span class="btext2">But you, O God, will cast them down into the pit of destruction; men of blood and treachery shall not live out half their days. But I will trust in you.</span></td></tr></table><table width="100%" border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" align="center"><tr><td class="copy" width="50%"><a href="//niv.scripturetext.com/version.htm">New International Version</a> (NIV)</p><p class="ntext2">Holy Bible, New International Version&reg, NIV® Copyright © 1973, 1978, 1984, 2011 by <a href="//biblica.com">Biblica, Inc.</a>® Used by permission. All rights reserved worldwide.</td><td class="copy" width="50%">ESV Text Edition: 2016. The ESV® Bible (The Holy Bible, English Standard Version®) copyright © 2001 by <a href="//www.crossway.org/home/esv/">Crossway Bibles</a>, a publishing ministry of Good News Publishers. 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