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UST PSA Chapter 55

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55 This is a note for the worship leader: playing stringed instruments should accompany this song. wrote song.

1 God, please listen to me as I pray to you.

Please do not ignore me as I am pleading with you.

2 Please pay attention to me and do what I ask.

The things I am praying about are agitating me and making me moan in distress.

3 This is because my enemies are saying things to threaten me.

Wicked people are attacking me.

They are causing me to have great troubles.

Because they are so hostile to me, they never stop trying to harm me.

4 My heart is pounding inside me because I am so upset.

I strongly feel many fears because I know that my enemies are trying to kill me.

5 I am shaking because I am so afraid.

The only thing I feel is fear.

6 I have been thinking, “How good it would be if I had wings like a dove!

I would fly away and find a place to rest.

7 If I could, I would go far away

and stay in a desolate area. Selah

8 I would quickly find a safe place

where my enemies could not harm me in the way that a powerful storm causes damage.”

9 Lord, please destroy my enemies!

Make them disagree about what to do so that they cannot make successful plans against me.

I ask this because I know that they are fighting with people in the city and hurting them.

10 The fighting is constant, and the people in the city cannot get away from it.

Bad people are causing much trouble right in the middle of the city.

11 These bad people harm others right in the middle of the city.

Dishonest people continually deceive and cheat others in the marketplace.

12 If it were an enemy who was saying bad things about me,

I could endure it.

If it were someone who hated me who was powerfully opposing me,

I could hide from him.

13 But the person who is doing those things to me is someone I treated not as a subject but as an equal.

I knew him well, and we were together often.

14 We used to talk together in a wonderful way.

We also used to go to the temple courtyard together to worship God with the other Israelites who gathered there.

15 My enemies are so wicked in their inner beings that it is as if wickedness lives in their homes and influences what they do.

So I hope that bad things happen to them that destroy them!

I wish that the earth would open up under them so that

they would go down alive to the place where dead people are.

16 But I will ask Yahweh, my God, to help me,

and he will rescue me.

17 I will continually pray to him,

whether I can express my concerns in words

or whether I am only able to moan as a plea to him.

He will answer my prayer by helping me.

18 My enemies are coming with many soldiers to fight against me,

but God will keep me safe and save my life when we fight a battle.

19 My enemies have no difficulties in life,

so they do not respect God. Selah

But God, who has ruled forever,

will answer my prayer and punish them as they deserve.

20 The man I knew well is attacking me even though I was his friend.

He should have remained loyal to me, but he has not.

21 What he said was as easy to believe as butter is easy to swallow,

but secretly he hated me.

The words he spoke were as soothing as olive oil,

but all along he intended to use words to hurt people as sharp swords do.

22 Depend on Yahweh to help you when you are in trouble, and he will take care of you.

He will never allow anyone to destroy people who are righteous.

23 God, you will cause people who deceive and kill others

to die before they have lived half as long as most people do.

But as for me, I will trust you to protect me.