UST PSA Chapter 56

56 This is a note for the worship leader: wrote song Philistines prisoner the city of Gath. tune is “A

1 O God, men are attacking me, so please help me!

They keep fighting me and making me suffer.

2 Many proud enemies are fighting against me,

so there is continually someone attacking me.

3 But whenever I am afraid,

I trust you to help me.

4 I praise you, God, because you have promised to take care of me.

I trust you to do that, so I am not afraid.

I know that mere humans will not be able to harm me!

5 My enemies are continually trying to interfere in my activities. They keep planning ways to harm me.

6 Together they secretly watch where I am going

because they are looking for an opportunity to kill me.

7 They should not be able to avoid punishment for the wicked things they are doing.

O God, in your anger, please defeat all of our foreign enemies!

8 You have watched me carefully as I have wandered to this place.

Please stay close to me as I have sad experiences here.

I know that you have watched me closely as I have had these experiences.

9 When I cry to God for help, my enemies will stop attacking me.

I know that will happen because God favors me.

10 I praise you, Yahweh my God,

because you have promised to take care of me.

11 I trust you to do that, so I am not afraid.

I know that mere humans will not be able to harm me!

12 God, I have vowed that I will thank you publicly when you help me,

so I will offer a sacrifice to thank you.

13 I will be able to do that because you will have rescued me.

No one will have killed me.

Because you protect me, I will be able to live in your presence

here in this world where people are alive.