Psa 55 | ESV | STEP | To the choirmaster : with stringed instruments . A Maskil of David . Give ear to my prayer , O God , and hide not yourself from my plea for mercy !

Psalms 55

Cast Your Burden on the Lord

To the choirmaster: with ^astringed instruments. A Maskil ^{▼▼Probably a musical or liturgical term} of David.

1 ^cGive ear to my prayer, O God,
and hide not yourself from my plea for mercy!
2 Attend to me, and answer me;
I am restless ^din my complaint and I ^emoan,
3 because of the noise of the enemy,
because of the oppression of the wicked.
For they ^fdrop trouble upon me,
and in anger they bear a grudge against me.
4 My heart is in anguish within me;
^gthe terrors of death have fallen upon me.
5 Fear and trembling come upon me,
and ^hhorror ⁱoverwhelms me.
6 And I say, “Oh, that I had wings like a dove!
I would fly away and be at rest;
7 ^jyes, I would wander far away;
I would lodge in the wilderness; Selah
8 I would hurry to find a shelter
from ^kthe raging wind and tempest.”
9 Destroy, O Lord, ^ldivide their tongues;
for I see ^mviolence and strife in the city.
10 Day and night they go around it
on its walls,
and ⁿiniquity and trouble are within it;
11 ruin is in its midst;
^ooppression and fraud
do not depart from its marketplace.
12 For it is not an enemy who taunts me—
then I could bear it;
it is not an adversary who ^pdeals insolently with me—
then I could hide from him.
13 ^qBut it is you, a man, my equal,
my companion, my familiar friend.
14 We used to take sweet counsel together;
within God’s house we walked in ^rthe throng.
15 Let death steal over them;
let them go down to Sheol ^salive;
for evil is in their dwelling place and in their heart.
16 But I call to God,
and the Lord will save me.
17 ^tEvening and ^umorning and at ^vnoon
I ^wutter my complaint and moan,
and he hears my voice.
18 He redeems my soul in safety
from the battle that I wage,
for ^xmany are arrayed against me.
19 God will give ear and humble them,
he who is ^yenthroned from of old, Selah
because they do not ^zchange
and do not fear God.
20 My companion ^{▼▼Hebrew He} ^abstretched out his hand against his friends;
he violated his covenant.
21 His ^acspeech was ^adsmooth as butter,
yet war was in his heart;
his words were softer than oil,
yet they were ^aedrawn swords.
22 ^afCast your burden on the Lord,
and he will sustain you;
^aghe will never permit
the righteous to be moved.
23 But you, O God, ^ahwill cast them down
into ^aithe pit of destruction;
men of ^ajblood and treachery
shall not ^aklive out half their days.
But I will ^altrust in you.

Psalms 55

Cast Your Burden on the Lord

To the choirmaster: with astringed instruments. A Maskil ▼▼Probably a musical or liturgical term of David.

To the choirmaster: with ^astringed instruments. A Maskil ^{▼▼Probably a musical or liturgical term} of David.