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The Book of Psalms 56

A psalm written by David for the choir director, concerning the time the Philistines seized David in Gath; to be sung using the tune “Dove on distant oaks.”

56 God, act mercifully toward me because men are attacking me!

All day long an enemy presses closer and closer to me because they want to take my life.

2 All day long my enemies seek to crush the life from me,

there are many enemies attacking me!

3 But whenever I am afraid,

I trust in you.

4 God, I praise you because you do what you have promised;

I trust in you, and then I am not afraid.

Ordinary humans certainly cannot harm me!

5 All day long my enemies claim that I said things that I did not say;

they are always thinking of ways to harm me.

6 In order to cause trouble for me, they hide

and watch everything that I do,

waiting for an opportunity to kill me.

7 So, God, punish them for the wicked things that they are doing;

show that you are angry by defeating those people!

8 You have counted all the times that I have been wandering alone;

it is as though you have put all my tears in a bottle

so that you can see how much I have cried.

You have counted my tears and written the number in your book.

9 When I call out to you, my God, my enemies will be defeated;

I know that will happen because you are fighting for me.

10 I praise you that you do what you have promised;

Yahweh, I will always praise you for that.

11 I trust in you, and as a result, I will not be afraid.

I know that humans cannot really harm me!

12 I will bring to you the offering that I promised;

I will bring an offering to you to thank you

13 because you have rescued me from being killed;

you have kept me from stumbling.

And so I will continue to live with God every day

in his light that gives me life.