Psalm 55 - American Standard Version 2015

¹ {\b For the Chief Musician; on stringed instruments. Maschil of David.}\par\par\tab Give ear to my prayer, O God;\par\tab And hide not thyself from my supplication.

² Attend unto me, and answer me:\par\tab I am restless in my complaint, and moan,

³ Because of the voice of the enemy,\par\tab Because of the oppression of the wicked;\par\tab For they cast iniquity upon me,\par\tab And in anger they persecute me.

⁴ My heart is sore pained within me:\par\tab And the terrors of death are fallen upon me.

⁵ Fearfulness and trembling are come upon me,\par\tab And horror hath overwhelmed me.

⁶ And I said, Oh that I had wings like a dove!\par\tab Then would I fly away, and be at rest.

⁷ Lo, then would I wander far off,\par\tab I would lodge in the wilderness. {\i Selah\par

⁸ I would haste me to a shelter\par\tab From the stormy wind and tempest.

⁹ Destroy, O Lord, {\i and} divide their tongue;\par\tab For I have seen violence and strife in the city.

¹⁰ Day and night they go about it upon the walls thereof:\par\tab Iniquity also and mischief are in the midst of it.

¹¹ Wickedness is in the midst thereof:\par\tab Oppression and guile depart not from its streets.

¹² For it was not an enemy that reproached me;\par\tab Then I could have borne it:\par\tab Neither was it he that hated me that did magnify himself against me;\par\tab Then I would have hid myself from him:

¹³ But it was thou, a man mine equal,\par\tab My companion, and my familiar friend.

¹⁴ We took sweet counsel together;\par\tab We walked in the house of God with the throng.

¹⁵ Let death come suddenly upon them,\par\tab Let them go down alive into Sheol;\par\tab For wickedness is in their dwelling, in the midst of them.

¹⁶ As for me, I will call upon God;\par\tab And Jehovah will save me.

¹⁷ Evening, and morning, and at noonday, will I complain, and moan;\par\tab And he will hear my voice.

¹⁸ He hath redeemed my soul in peace from the battle that was against me;\par\tab For they were many {\i that strove} with me.

¹⁹ God will hear, and answer them,\par\tab Even he that abideth of old, {\i Selah\par\tab {\i The men} who have no changes,\par\tab And who fear not God.

²⁰ He hath put forth his hands against such as were at peace with him:\par\tab He hath profaned his covenant.

²¹ His mouth was smooth as butter,\par\tab But his heart was war:\par\tab His words were softer than oil,\par\tab Yet were they drawn swords.

²² Cast thy burden upon Jehovah, and he will sustain thee:\par\tab He will never suffer the righteous to be moved.

²³ But thou, O God, wilt bring them down into the pit of destruction:\par\tab Bloodthirsty and deceitful men shall not live out half their days;\par\tab But I will trust in thee.\par