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Don't hide yourself from my supplication.</p> <p class="reg"><span class="reftext"><a href="/psalms/55-2.htm"><b>2</b></a></span>Attend to me, and answer me. I am restless in my complaint, and moan,</p> <p class="reg"><span class="reftext"><a href="/psalms/55-3.htm"><b>3</b></a></span>Because of the voice of the enemy, Because of the oppression of the wicked. For they bring suffering on me. In anger they hold a grudge against me.</p> <p class="reg"><span class="reftext"><a href="/psalms/55-4.htm"><b>4</b></a></span>My heart is severely pained within me. The terrors of death have fallen on me.</p> <p class="reg"><span class="reftext"><a href="/psalms/55-5.htm"><b>5</b></a></span>Fearfulness and trembling have come on me. Horror has overwhelmed me.</p> <p class="reg"><span class="reftext"><a href="/psalms/55-6.htm"><b>6</b></a></span>I said, "Oh that I had wings like a dove! Then I would fly away, and be at rest.</p> <p class="reg"><span class="reftext"><a href="/psalms/55-7.htm"><b>7</b></a></span>Behold, then I would wander far off. I would lodge in the wilderness." Selah.</p> <p class="reg"><span class="reftext"><a href="/psalms/55-8.htm"><b>8</b></a></span>"I would hurry to a shelter from the stormy wind and storm."</p> <p class="reg"><span class="reftext"><a href="/psalms/55-9.htm"><b>9</b></a></span>Confuse them, Lord, and confound their language, for I have seen violence and strife in the city.</p> <p class="reg"><span class="reftext"><a href="/psalms/55-10.htm"><b>10</b></a></span>Day and night they prowl around on its walls. Malice and abuse are also within her.</p> <p class="reg"><span class="reftext"><a href="/psalms/55-11.htm"><b>11</b></a></span>Destructive forces are within her. Threats and lies don't depart from her streets.</p> <p class="reg"><span class="reftext"><a href="/psalms/55-12.htm"><b>12</b></a></span>For it was not an enemy who insulted me, then I could have endured it. Neither was it he who hated me who raised himself up against me, then I would have hidden myself from him.</p> <p class="reg"><span class="reftext"><a href="/psalms/55-13.htm"><b>13</b></a></span>But it was you, a man like me, my companion, and my familiar friend.</p> <p class="reg"><span class="reftext"><a href="/psalms/55-14.htm"><b>14</b></a></span>We took sweet fellowship together. We walked in God's house with company.</p> <p class="reg"><span class="reftext"><a href="/psalms/55-15.htm"><b>15</b></a></span>Let death come suddenly on them. Let them go down alive into Sheol. For wickedness is in their dwelling, in the midst of them.</p> <p class="reg"><span class="reftext"><a href="/psalms/55-16.htm"><b>16</b></a></span>As for me, I will call on God. Yahweh will save me.</p> <p class="reg"><span class="reftext"><a href="/psalms/55-17.htm"><b>17</b></a></span>Evening, morning, and at noon, I will cry out in distress. He will hear my voice.</p> <p class="reg"><span class="reftext"><a href="/psalms/55-18.htm"><b>18</b></a></span>He has redeemed my soul in peace from the battle that was against me, although there are many who oppose me.</p> <p class="reg"><span class="reftext"><a href="/psalms/55-19.htm"><b>19</b></a></span>God, who is enthroned forever, will hear, and answer them. Selah. They never change, who don't fear God.</p> <p class="reg"><span class="reftext"><a href="/psalms/55-20.htm"><b>20</b></a></span>He raises his hands against his friends. He has violated his covenant.</p> <p class="reg"><span class="reftext"><a href="/psalms/55-21.htm"><b>21</b></a></span>His mouth was smooth as butter, but his heart was war. His words were softer than oil, yet they were drawn swords.</p> <p class="reg"><span class="reftext"><a href="/psalms/55-22.htm"><b>22</b></a></span>Cast your burden on Yahweh, and he will sustain you. He will never allow the righteous to be moved.</p> <p class="reg"><span class="reftext"><a href="/psalms/55-23.htm"><b>23</b></a></span>But you, God, will bring them down into the pit of destruction. Bloodthirsty and deceitful men shall not live out half their days, but I will trust in you. For the Chief Musician. To the tune of "Silent Dove in Distant Lands." A poem by David, when the Philistines seized him in Gath.</p></div></div><div id="botbox"><div class="padbot"><div align="center">The World English Bible is a 1997 revision of the American Standard Version of the Holy Bible, first published in 1901. It is in the Public Domain. Please feel free to copy and distribute it freely. Thank you to Michael Paul Johnson for making this work available. 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