Psm55:1 Give ear to my prayer, O God; do not hide yourself from my supplication.
Psm55:2 Attend to me, and answer me; I am troubled in my complaint. I am distraught
Psm55:3 by the noise of the enemy, because of the clamor of the wicked. For they bring trouble upon me, and in anger they cherish enmity against me.
Psm55:4 My heart is in anguish within me, the terrors of death have fallen upon me.
Psm55:5 Fear and trembling come upon me, and horror overwhelms me.
Psm55:6 And I say, "O that I had wings like a dove! I would fly away and be at rest;
Psm55:7 truly, I would flee far away; I would lodge in the wilderness;Selah
Psm55:8 I would hurry to find a shelter for myself from the raging wind and tempest."
Psm55:9 Confuse, O Lord, confound their speech; for I see violence and strife in the city.
Psm55:10 Day and night they go around it on its walls, and iniquity and trouble are within it;
Psm55:11 ruin is in its midst; oppression and fraud do not depart from its marketplace.
Psm55:12 It is not enemies who taunt me-- I could bear that; it is not adversaries who deal insolently with me-- I could hide from them.
Psm55:13 But it is you, my equal, my companion, my familiar friend,
Psm55:14 with whom I kept pleasant company; we walked in the house of God with the throng.
Psm55:15 Let death come upon them; let them go down alive to Sheol; for evil is in their homes and in their hearts.
Psm55:16 But I call upon God, and the LORD will save me.
Psm55:17 Evening and morning and at noon I utter my complaint and moan, and he will hear my voice.
Psm55:18 He will redeem me unharmed from the battle that I wage, for many are arrayed against me.
Psm55:19 God, who is enthroned from of old,Selah will hear, and will humble them-- because they do not change, and do not fear God.
Psm55:20 My companion laid hands on a friend and violated a covenant with me
Psm55:21 with speech smoother than butter, but with a heart set on war; with words that were softer than oil, but in fact were drawn swords.
Psm55:22 Cast your burden on the LORD, and he will sustain you; he will never permit the righteous to be moved.
Psm55:23 But you, O God, will cast them down into the lowest pit; the bloodthirsty and treacherous shall not live out half their days. But I will trust in you.
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