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Prayer for Deliverance and Confidence in God

For the music director, according to The Silent Dove of Distant Lands.

Of David. A miktam.

When the Philistines seized him in Gath.[a]

56 
Be gracious to me, O God, because humankind has trampled me;

fighting all the day he oppresses me.

2 My enemies[b] trample all day,

because many are attacking me proudly.

3 When[c] I fear, I trust you.

4 God, whose word I praise,

God I trust; I do not fear.

What can mere flesh do to me?

5 All day they twist my words;

all their thoughts are against me for evil.

6 They attack,[d] they hide, they watch my steps,[e]

as they lie in wait for my life.

7 Because of iniquity will they escape?

In anger cast down the peoples, O God.

8 You have kept count of my wonderings.

Put my tears in your bottle;

are they not in your book?

9 Then my enemies will turn back when[f] I call.[g]

This I know because[h] God is for me.

10 God, whose word I praise,

Yahweh, whose word I praise,

11 God I trust; I do not fear.

What can mere humankind do to me?

12 My vows to you, O God, are binding upon me.

I will pay thank offerings to you,

13 because you have delivered my soul from death.

Have you not kept my feet from stumbling,

that I may walk before God

in the light of the living?

Footnotes

  1. Psalm 56:1 The Hebrew Bible counts the superscription as the first verse of the psalm; the English verse number is reduced by one
  2. Psalm 56:2 Or “lurking foes”
  3. Psalm 56:3 Literally “The day”
  4. Psalm 56:6 Or “they stir up strife”
  5. Psalm 56:6 Literally “heels”
  6. Psalm 56:9 Literally “in the day”
  7. Psalm 56:9 i.e., call on God
  8. Psalm 56:9 Or “that”