LVI. Book II. Supplication for Deliverance, and Grateful Trust in God. 1909-14. The Book of Psalms. The Harvard Classics

The Book of Psalms.
The Harvard Classics. 1909–14.

Book II

LVI

Supplication for Deliverance, and Grateful Trust in God

For the Chief Musician; set to Jonath 1 elem rehokim. A Psalm of David. Michtam; when the Philistines took him in Gath.


[1]	BE merciful unto me, O God; for man would swallow me up: All the day long he fighting oppresseth me.
[2]	Mine 2 enemies would swallow me up all the day long; For they are many that fight proudly against me.
[3]	What time I am afraid, I will put my trust in thee.
[4]	In God (I will praise his word), In God have I put my trust, I will not be afraid; What can flesh do unto me?
[5]	All the day long they wrest my words: All their thoughts are against me for evil.
[6]	They gather themselves together, they hide themselves, They mark my steps, Even 3 as they have waited for my soul.
[7]	Shall 4 they escape by iniquity? In anger cast down the peoples, O God.
[8]	Thou numberest my wanderings: Put thou my tears into thy bottle; Are they not in thy book? 5
[9]	Then shall mine enemies turn back in the day that I call: This I know, that 6 God is for me.
[10]	In God (I will praise his word), In Jehovah (I will praise his word),
[11]	In God have I put my trust, I will not be afraid; What can man do unto me?
[12]	Thy vows are upon me, O God: I will render thank-offerings unto thee.
[13]	For thou hast delivered my soul from death: Hast thou not delivered my feet from falling, That I may walk before God In the light of the 7 living?

Note 1. That is, The silent dove of them that are afar off.Or, as otherwise read, The dove of the distant terebinths. [back]

Note 2. Or, They that lie in wait for me. [back]

Note 3. Or, Inasmuch as. [back]

Note 4. Or, They think to escape. [back]

Note 5. Or, record. [back]

Note 6. Or, for. [back]

Note 7. Or, life. [back]