Psalms 55 : 1 (YLT)
To the Overseer with stringed instruments. -- An instruction, by David. Give ear, O God, [to] my prayer, And hide not from my supplication.
Psalms 55 : 2 (YLT)
Attend to me, and answer me, I mourn in my meditation, and make a noise,
Psalms 55 : 3 (YLT)
Because of the voice of an enemy, Because of the oppression of the wicked, For they cause sorrow to move against me, And in anger they hate me.
Psalms 55 : 4 (YLT)
My heart is pained within me, And terrors of death have fallen on me.
Psalms 55 : 5 (YLT)
Fear and trembling come in to me, And horror doth cover me.
Psalms 55 : 6 (YLT)
And I say, `Who doth give to me a pinion as a dove? I fly away and rest,
Psalms 55 : 7 (YLT)
Lo, I move far off, I lodge in a wilderness. Selah.
Psalms 55 : 8 (YLT)
I hasten escape for myself, From a rushing wind, from a whirlwind.
Psalms 55 : 9 (YLT)
Swallow up, O Lord, divide their tongue, For I saw violence and strife in a city.
Psalms 55 : 10 (YLT)
By day and by night they go round it, on its walls. Both iniquity and perverseness [are] in its midst,
Psalms 55 : 11 (YLT)
Mischiefs [are] in its midst. Fraud and deceit depart not from its street.
Psalms 55 : 12 (YLT)
For an enemy reproacheth me not, or I bear [it], He who is hating me Hath not magnified himself against me, Or I hide from him.
Psalms 55 : 13 (YLT)
But thou, a man -- as mine equal, My familiar friend, and mine acquaintance.
Psalms 55 : 14 (YLT)
When together we sweeten counsel, Into the house of God we walk in company.
Psalms 55 : 15 (YLT)
Desolations [are] upon them, They go down [to] Sheol -- alive, For wickedness [is] in their dwelling, in their midst.
Psalms 55 : 16 (YLT)
I -- to God I call, and Jehovah saveth me.
Psalms 55 : 17 (YLT)
Evening, and morning, and noon, I meditate, and make a noise, and He heareth my voice,
Psalms 55 : 18 (YLT)
He hath ransomed in peace my soul From him who is near to me, For with the multitude they were with me.
Psalms 55 : 19 (YLT)
God doth hear and afflict them, And He sitteth of old. Selah. Because they have no changes, and fear not God,
Psalms 55 : 20 (YLT)
He hath sent forth his hands against his well-wishers, He hath polluted his covenant.
Psalms 55 : 21 (YLT)
Sweeter than honey hath been his mouth, And his heart [is] war! Softer have been his words than oil, And they [are] drawn [swords].
Psalms 55 : 22 (YLT)
Cast on Jehovah that which He hath given thee, And He doth sustain thee, He doth not suffer for ever the moving of the righteous.
Psalms 55 : 23 (YLT)
And Thou, O God, dost bring them down To a pit of destruction, Men of blood and deceit reach not to half their days, And I -- I do trust in Thee!
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