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A Maskil of David.</span></h4><div class="poetry"><p class="line"><span class="text"><span class="versenum">1</span>Give ear to my prayer, O God;</span><br /><span class="indent-1"><span class="indent-1-breaks">    </span><span class="text">do not hide yourself from my supplication.</span></span><br /><span id="en" class="text"><span class="versenum">2</span>Attend to me, and answer me;</span><br /><span class="indent-1"><span class="indent-1-breaks">    </span><span class="text">I am troubled in my complaint.</span></span><br /><span class="text">I am distraught </span> <span id="en" class="text"><span class="versenum mid-line">3</span>by the noise of the enemy,</span><br /><span class="indent-1"><span class="indent-1-breaks">    </span><span class="text">because of the clamor of the wicked.</span></span><br /><span class="text">For they bring<span data-fn='#fen' class='footnote' data-link='[<a href="#fen-NRSVCE-16806a" title="See footnote a">a</a>]'>[<a href="#fen" xtitle="See footnote a">a</a>]</span> trouble upon me,</span><br /><span class="indent-1"><span class="indent-1-breaks">    </span><span class="text">and in anger they cherish enmity against me.</span></span></p></div> <div class="poetry top-1"><p class="line"><span id="en" class="text"><span class="versenum">4</span>My heart is in anguish within me,</span><br /><span class="indent-1"><span class="indent-1-breaks">    </span><span class="text">the terrors of death have fallen upon me.</span></span><br /><span id="en" class="text"><span class="versenum">5</span>Fear and trembling come upon me,</span><br /><span class="indent-1"><span class="indent-1-breaks">    </span><span class="text">and horror overwhelms me.</span></span><br /><span id="en" class="text"><span class="versenum">6</span>And I say, “O that I had wings like a dove!</span><br /><span class="indent-1"><span class="indent-1-breaks">    </span><span class="text">I would fly away and be at rest;</span></span><br /><span id="en" class="text"><span class="versenum">7</span>truly, I would flee far away;</span><br /><span class="indent-1"><span class="indent-1-breaks">    </span><span class="text">I would lodge in the wilderness;<i><span class="selah">Selah</span></i></span></span><br /><span id="en" class="text"><span class="versenum">8</span>I would hurry to find a shelter for myself</span><br /><span class="indent-1"><span class="indent-1-breaks">    </span><span class="text">from the raging wind and tempest.”</span></span></p></div> <div class="poetry top-1"><p class="line"><span id="en" class="text"><span class="versenum">9</span>Confuse, O Lord, confound their speech;</span><br /><span class="indent-1"><span class="indent-1-breaks">    </span><span class="text">for I see violence and strife in the city.</span></span><br /><span id="en" class="text"><span class="versenum">10</span>Day and night they go around it</span><br /><span class="indent-1"><span class="indent-1-breaks">    </span><span class="text">on its walls,</span></span><br /><span class="text">and iniquity and trouble are within it;</span><br /><span class="indent-1"><span id="en" class="text"><span class="versenum">11</span><span class="indent-1-breaks">    </span>ruin is in its midst;</span></span><br /><span class="text">oppression and fraud</span><br /><span class="indent-1"><span class="indent-1-breaks">    </span><span class="text">do not depart from its marketplace.</span></span></p></div> <div class="poetry top-1"><p class="line"><span id="en" class="text"><span class="versenum">12</span>It is not enemies who taunt me—</span><br /><span class="indent-1"><span class="indent-1-breaks">    </span><span class="text">I could bear that;</span></span><br /><span class="text">it is not adversaries who deal insolently with me—</span><br /><span class="indent-1"><span class="indent-1-breaks">    </span><span class="text">I could hide from them.</span></span><br /><span id="en" class="text"><span class="versenum">13</span>But it is you, my equal,</span><br /><span class="indent-1"><span class="indent-1-breaks">    </span><span class="text">my companion, my familiar friend,</span></span><br /><span id="en" class="text"><span class="versenum">14</span>with whom I kept pleasant company;</span><br /><span class="indent-1"><span class="indent-1-breaks">    </span><span class="text">we walked in the house of God with the throng.</span></span><br /><span id="en" class="text"><span class="versenum">15</span>Let death come upon them;</span><br /><span class="indent-1"><span class="indent-1-breaks">    </span><span class="text">let them go down alive to Sheol;</span></span><br /><span class="indent-1"><span class="indent-1-breaks">    </span><span class="text">for evil is in their homes and in their hearts.</span></span></p></div> <div class="poetry top-1"><p class="line"><span id="en" class="text"><span class="versenum">16</span>But I call upon God,</span><br /><span class="indent-1"><span class="indent-1-breaks">    </span><span class="text">and the <span style="font-variant: small-caps" class="small-caps">Lord</span> will save me.</span></span><br /><span id="en" class="text"><span class="versenum">17</span>Evening and morning and at noon</span><br /><span class="indent-1"><span class="indent-1-breaks">    </span><span class="text">I utter my complaint and moan,</span></span><br /><span class="indent-1"><span class="indent-1-breaks">    </span><span class="text">and he will hear my voice.</span></span><br /><span id="en" class="text"><span class="versenum">18</span>He will redeem me unharmed</span><br /><span class="indent-1"><span class="indent-1-breaks">    </span><span class="text">from the battle that I wage,</span></span><br /><span class="indent-1"><span class="indent-1-breaks">    </span><span class="text">for many are arrayed against me.</span></span><br /><span id="en" class="text"><span class="versenum">19</span>God, who is enthroned from of old,<i><span class="selah">Selah</span></i></span><br /><span class="indent-1"><span class="indent-1-breaks">    </span><span class="text">will hear, and will humble them—</span></span><br /><span class="text">because they do not change,</span><br /><span class="indent-1"><span class="indent-1-breaks">    </span><span class="text">and do not fear God.</span></span></p></div> <div class="poetry top-1"><p class="line"><span id="en" class="text"><span class="versenum">20</span>My companion laid hands on a friend</span><br /><span class="indent-1"><span class="indent-1-breaks">    </span><span class="text">and violated a covenant with me<span data-fn='#fen' class='footnote' data-link='[<a href="#fen-NRSVCE-16823b" title="See footnote b">b</a>]'>[<a href="#fen" xtitle="See footnote b">b</a>]</span></span></span><br /><span id="en" class="text"><span class="versenum">21</span>with speech smoother than butter,</span><br /><span class="indent-1"><span class="indent-1-breaks">    </span><span class="text">but with a heart set on war;</span></span><br /><span class="text">with words that were softer than oil,</span><br /><span class="indent-1"><span class="indent-1-breaks">    </span><span class="text">but in fact were drawn swords.</span></span></p></div> <div class="poetry top-1"><p class="line"><span id="en" class="text"><span class="versenum">22</span>Cast your burden<span data-fn='#fen' class='footnote' data-link='[<a href="#fen-NRSVCE-16825c" title="See footnote c">c</a>]'>[<a href="#fen" xtitle="See footnote c">c</a>]</span> on the <span style="font-variant: small-caps" class="small-caps">Lord</span>,</span><br /><span class="indent-1"><span class="indent-1-breaks">    </span><span class="text">and he will sustain you;</span></span><br /><span class="text">he will never permit</span><br /><span class="indent-1"><span class="indent-1-breaks">    </span><span class="text">the righteous to be moved.</span></span></p></div> <div class="poetry top-1"><p class="line"><span id="en" class="text"><span class="versenum">23</span>But you, O God, will cast them down</span><br /><span class="indent-1"><span class="indent-1-breaks">    </span><span class="text">into the lowest pit;</span></span><br /><span class="text">the bloodthirsty and treacherous</span><br /><span class="indent-1"><span class="indent-1-breaks">    </span><span class="text">shall not live out half their days.</span></span><br /><span class="text">But I will trust in you.</span></p></div> <A name="fen"></a><div class="footnotes"><h4>Footnotes</h4><ol><li id="fen"><a hlef="#en" xtitle="Go to Psalm 55:3">Psalm 55:3</a> <span class='footnote-text'>Cn Compare Gk: Heb <i>they cause to totter</i></span></li><li id="fen"><a hlef="#en" xtitle="Go to Psalm 55:20">Psalm 55:20</a> <span class='footnote-text'>Heb lacks <i>with me</i></span></li><li id="fen"><a hlef="#en" xtitle="Go to Psalm 55:22">Psalm 55:22</a> <span class='footnote-text'>Or <i>Cast what he has given you</i></span></li></ol></div> 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