Psalms 56
1Unto the end. May you not destroy. Of David, with the inscription of a title, when he fled from Saul into a cave.
2Be merciful to me, O God, be merciful to me. For my soul trusts in you. And I will hope in the shadow of your wings, until iniquity passes away.
3I will cry out to God Most High, to God who has been kind to me.
4He sent from heaven and freed me. He has surrendered into disgrace those who trampled me. God has sent his mercy and his truth.
5And he has rescued my soul from the midst of the young lions. I slept troubled. The sons of men: their teeth are weapons and arrows, and their tongue is a sharp sword.
6Be exalted above the heavens, O God, and your glory above all the earth.
7They prepared a snare for my feet, and they bowed down my soul. They dug a pit before my face, yet they have fallen into it.
8My heart is prepared, O God, my heart is prepared. I will sing, and I will compose a psalm.
9Rise up, my glory. Rise up, psaltery and harp. I will arise in early morning.
10I will confess to you, O Lord, among the peoples. I will compose a psalm to you among the nations.
11For your mercy has been magnified, even to the heavens, and your truth, even to the clouds.
12Be exalted above the heavens, O God, and your glory above all the earth.
1Be merciful unto me, O God: for man would swallow me up; he fighting daily oppresseth me.
2Mine enemies would daily swallow me up: for they be many that fight against me, O thou most High.
3What time I am afraid, I will trust in thee.
4In God I will praise his word, in God I have put my trust; I will not fear what flesh can do unto me.
5Every day they wrest my words: all their thoughts are against me for evil.
6They gather themselves together, they hide themselves, they mark my steps, when they wait for my soul.
7Shall they escape by iniquity? in thine anger cast down the people, O God.
8Thou tellest my wanderings: put thou my tears into thy bottle: are they not in thy book?
9When I cry unto thee, then shall mine enemies turn back: this I know; for God is for me.
10In God will I praise his word: in the Lord will I praise his word.
11In God have I put my trust: I will not be afraid what man can do unto me.
12Thy vows are upon me, O God: I will render praises unto thee.
13For thou hast delivered my soul from death: wilt not thou deliver my feet from falling, that I may walk before God in the light of the living?