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1 (54-1) <Unto the end, in verses, understanding for David.> (54-2) Hear, O God, my prayer, and despise not my supplication:
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Give ear to my prayer, O God; do not hide yourself from my supplication.
2 (54-3) Be attentive to me and hear me. I am grieved in my exercise; and am troubled,
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Attend to me, and answer me; I am troubled in my complaint. I am distraught
3 (54-4) At the voice of the enemy, and at the tribulation of the sinner. For they have cast iniquities upon me: and in wrath they were troublesome to me.
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by the noise of the enemy, because of the clamor of the wicked. For they bring trouble upon me, and in anger they cherish enmity against me.
4 (54-5) My heart is troubled within me: and the fear of death is fallen upon me.
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My heart is in anguish within me, the terrors of death have fallen upon me.
5 (54-6) Fear and trembling are come upon me: and darkness hath covered me.
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Fear and trembling come upon me, and horror overwhelms me.
6 (54-7) And I said: Who will give me wings like a dove, and I will fly and be at rest?
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And I say, "O that I had wings like a dove! I would fly away and be at rest;
7 (54-8) Lo, I have gone far off flying away; and I abode in the wilderness.
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truly, I would flee far away; I would lodge in the wilderness; (Selah)
8 (54-9) I waited for him that hath saved me from pusillanimity of spirit, and a storm.
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I would hurry to find a shelter for myself from the raging wind and tempest."
9 (54-10) Cast down, O Lord, and divide their tongues; for I have seen iniquity and contradiction in the city.
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Confuse, O Lord, confound their speech; for I see violence and strife in the city.
10 (54-11) Day and night shall iniquity surround it upon its walls: and in the midst thereof are labour,
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Day and night they go around it on its walls, and iniquity and trouble are within it;
11 (54-12) And injustice. And usury and deceit have not departed from its streets.
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ruin is in its midst; oppression and fraud do not depart from its marketplace.
12 (54-13) For if my enemy had reviled me, I would verily have borne with it. And if he that hated me had spoken great things against me, I would perhaps have hidden my self from him.
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It is not enemies who taunt me— I could bear that; it is not adversaries who deal insolently with me— I could hide from them.
13 (54-14) But thou a man of one mind, my guide, and my familiar,
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But it is you, my equal, my companion, my familiar friend,
14 (54-15) Who didst take sweetmeats together with me: in the house of God we walked with consent.
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with whom I kept pleasant company; we walked in the house of God with the throng.
15 (54-16) Let death come upon them, and let them go down alive into hell. For there is wickedness in their dwellings: in the midst of them.
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Let death come upon them; let them go down alive to Sheol; for evil is in their homes and in their hearts.
16 (54-17) But I have cried to God: and the Lord will save me.
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But I call upon God, and the Lord will save me.
17 (54-18) Evening and morning, and at noon I will speak and declare: and he shall hear my voice.
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Evening and morning and at noon I utter my complaint and moan, and he will hear my voice.
18 (54-19) He shall redeem my soul in peace from them that draw near to me: for among many they were with me.
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He will redeem me unharmed from the battle that I wage, for many are arrayed against me.
19 (54-20) God shall hear, and the Eternal shall humble them. For there is no change with them, and they have not feared God:
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God, who is enthroned from of old, (Selah) will hear, and will humble them— because they do not change, and do not fear God.
20 (54-21) He hath stretched forth his hand to repay. They have defiled his covenant,
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My companion laid hands on a friend and violated a covenant with me
21 (54-22) They are divided by the wrath of his countenance, and his heart hath drawn near. His words are smoother than oil, and the same are darts.
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with speech smoother than butter, but with a heart set on war; with words that were softer than oil, but in fact were drawn swords.
22 (54-23) Cast thy care upon the Lord, and he shall sustain thee: he shall not suffer the just to waver for ever.
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Cast your burden on the Lord, and he will sustain you; he will never permit the righteous to be moved.
23 (54-24) But thou, O God, shalt bring them down into the pit of destruction. Bloody and deceitful men shall not live out half their days; but I will trust in thee, O Lord.
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But you, O God, will cast them down into the lowest pit; the bloodthirsty and treacherous shall not live out half their days. But I will trust in you.
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