Psalm 56 – A Prayer of Trust in God

For the leader. On jonath elem rehokim. Of David. A michtam, when the Philistines seized him in Gath.

56 O God, be gracious to me,

for people trample upon me,

all the day righting and pressing me.

2 All the day enemies trample me;

many there be

who contend with me bitterly.

3 In the day of my terror

I trust in you.

4 In God I maintain my cause,

in God I fearlessly trust.

What can flesh do to me?

5 They torture me all the day,

they ceaselessly plan to hurt me,

6 banded together in secret,

watching my every step,

as those who hope for my death.

7 Pay them out for their sin, O God,

hurl down the strong in your anger.

8 You yourself count my wanderings.

Put in your bottle my tears

are they not in your book?

9 Then shall my foes be turned back

in the day that I call.

Of this I am sure,

because God is for me.

10 In God I maintain my cause,

in the Lord I maintain my cause.

11 In God I fearlessly trust,

what can people do to me?

12 Your vows are upon me, O God,

I will render thank-offerings to you;

13 because you have saved me from death,

my feet from stumbling,

to the end that I walk before God

in the light of the living.