UST PSA Chapter 59

59 This is a note for the worship leader: wrote song to watch house that they could kill him when he left it. tune is “Do

1 My God, please rescue me from my enemies!

Protect me from those who want to attack me!

2 Rescue me from wicked men

who are trying to kill me!

3 Look! They are hiding and waiting for a chance to kill me!

Fierce men have gathered to harm me.

Yahweh, they are doing that even though I have not done anything that is wrong!

4 I have not committed any sin, but they are hurrying to get ready to attack me.

Please consider my situation and come quickly to help me.

5 Yahweh, you are the God who commands the heavenly armies.

You are the God whom we Israelites worship.

So I ask you to take action and punish all the people who do not honor you.

Do not act mercifully toward those wicked people who have acted treacherously toward me. Selah

6 They are like wild dogs that come out in the cool of the evening

and growl as they roam around this city looking for scraps of food.

7 They make violent threats so loudly that it is as if they are belching.

They think, “No one who hears us will stop us!”

8 But you mock them, Yahweh.

You scoff at people who do not honor you.

9 Because you, God, are the one who protects me and makes me strong,

I will depend on you.

10 You, God, are faithfully loving to me, and you will come to help me.

You will defeat my enemies so that I can look triumphantly at them.

11 But do not kill them right away.

Otherwise, the Israelite people might forget how you punished them.

Instead, use your power to make them wander around helplessly,

and then destroy them.

Lord, you are like a shield that protects us.

12 The things that they say are sinful.

They curse people falsely.

May their pride be like a trap that catches them

and keeps them from doing what they are planning.

13 Become angry with them and destroy them so that they do not exist anymore.

That way people will know that you, God, rule over the Israelite people and the entire world. Selah

14 They are like wild dogs that come out in the cool of the evening

and growl as they roam around this city looking for scraps of food.

15 They roam around searching for food.

If they do not get enough to eat, they keep roaming around all night.

16 But as for me, I will sing each morning about how powerful you are.

I will sing joyfully about how faithfully loving you are to me.

I will sing about how you protect me when I am in danger.

17 I will praise you, who enables me to be strong,

because you, God, protect me and faithfully love me as you promised.