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57">►</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">Good News Translation</div><div class="chap"><h3 class="s"><a href="#fn" id="link_Ps.56.1!x.1" class="notelink x-link"><span></span></a> A Prayer of Trust in God<a href="#fn" id="link_Ps.56.1!f.2" class="notelink f-link"><span>+</span></a> </h3><p class="q1"><span class="v19_56_1"><span class="reftext" id="Ps.56.1" class="v19_56_1">1</span>Be merciful to me, O God,</span></p><p class="q2"><span class="v19_56_1">because I am under attack;</span></p><p class="q2"><span class="v19_56_1">my enemies persecute me all the time.</span></p><p class="q1"><span class="v19_56_2"><span class="reftext" id="Ps.56.2" class="v19_56_2">2</span>All day long my opponents attack me.</span></p><p class="q2"><span class="v19_56_2">There are so many who fight against me.</span></p><p class="q1"><span class="v19_56_3"><span class="reftext" id="Ps.56.3" class="v19_56_3">3</span>When I am afraid, O <span class="nd">Lord</span> Almighty,</span></p><p class="q2"><span class="v19_56_3">I put my trust in you.</span></p><p class="q1"><span class="v19_56_4"><span class="reftext" id="Ps.56.4" class="v19_56_4">4</span>I trust in God and am not afraid;</span></p><p class="q2"><span class="v19_56_4">I praise him for what he has promised.</span></p><p class="q2"><span class="v19_56_4">What can a mere human being do to me?</span></p><p class="b"></p><p class="q1"><span class="v19_56_5"><span class="reftext" id="Ps.56.5" class="v19_56_5">5</span>My enemies make trouble for me all day long;</span></p><p class="q2"><span class="v19_56_5">they are always thinking up some way to hurt me!</span></p><p class="q1"><span class="v19_56_6"><span class="reftext" id="Ps.56.6" class="v19_56_6">6</span>They gather in hiding places</span></p><p class="q2"><span class="v19_56_6">and watch everything I do,</span></p><p class="q2"><span class="v19_56_6">hoping to kill me.</span></p><p class="q1"><span class="v19_56_7"><span class="reftext" id="Ps.56.7" class="v19_56_7">7</span>Punish<a href="#fn" id="link_Ps.56.7!f.1" class="notelink f-link"><span>+</span></a> them, O God, for their evil;</span></p><p class="q2"><span class="v19_56_7">defeat those people in your anger!</span></p><p class="b"></p><p class="q1"><span class="v19_56_8"><span class="reftext" id="Ps.56.8" class="v19_56_8">8</span>You know how troubled I am;</span></p><p class="q2"><span class="v19_56_8">you have kept a record of my tears.</span></p><p class="q2"><span class="v19_56_8">Aren't they listed in your book?</span></p><p class="q1"><span class="v19_56_9"><span class="reftext" id="Ps.56.9" class="v19_56_9">9</span>The day I call to you,</span></p><p class="q2"><span class="v19_56_9">my enemies will be turned back.</span></p><p class="q1"><span class="v19_56_9">I know this: God<a href="#fn" id="link_Ps.56.9!f.1" class="notelink f-link"><span>+</span></a> is on my side—</span></p><p class="q2"><span class="v19_56_10"><span class="reftext" id="Ps.56.10" class="v19_56_10">10</span>the <span class="nd">Lord</span>, whose promises I praise.</span></p><p class="q1"><span class="v19_56_11"><span class="reftext" id="Ps.56.11" class="v19_56_11">11</span>In him I trust, and I will not be afraid.</span></p><p class="q2"><span class="v19_56_11">What can a mere human being do to me?</span></p><p class="b"></p><p class="q1"><span class="v19_56_12"><span class="reftext" id="Ps.56.12" class="v19_56_12">12</span>O God, I will offer you what I have promised;</span></p><p class="q2"><span class="v19_56_12">I will give you my offering of thanksgiving,</span></p><p class="q1"><span class="v19_56_13"><span class="reftext" id="Ps.56.13" class="v19_56_13">13</span>because you have rescued me from death</span></p><p class="q2"><span class="v19_56_13">and kept me from defeat.</span></p><p class="q1"><span class="v19_56_13">And so I walk in the presence of God,</span></p><p class="q2"><span class="v19_56_13">in the light that shines on the living.</span></p><a name="fn"></a><br /><br /><br /><b>Footnotes:<br /><br /><note caller="+" style="f"><char style="fr" closed="false">HEBREW TITLE: </char><char style="ft" closed="false">A psalm by David, after the Philistines captured him in Gath.</char></note><br /><note caller="+" style="f"><char style="fr" closed="false">56.7: </char><char style="ft" closed="false">Probable text </char><char style="fq" closed="false">Punish; </char><char style="ft" closed="false">Hebrew </char><char style="fq" closed="false">Save.</char></note><br /><note caller="+" style="f"><char style="fr" closed="false">56.9: </char><char style="fq" closed="false">I know this: God; </char><char style="ft" closed="false">or </char><char style="fq" closed="false">Because I know that God.</char></note></div></div><span class="p"><br /><br /></span><div align="center"><p><span 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