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Psalm 56

1 Be merciful unto me, O God: for man would swallow me up; he fighting daily oppresseth me.

1 Be merciful to me, O God, because I am under attack; my enemies persecute me all the time.

2 Mine enemies would daily swallow me up: for they be many that fight against me, O thou most High.

2 All day long my opponents attack me. There are so many who fight against me.

3 What time I am afraid, I will trust in thee.

3 When I am afraid, O Lord Almighty, I put my trust in you.

4 In God I will praise his word, in God I have put my trust; I will not fear what flesh can do unto me.

4 I trust in God and am not afraid; I praise him for what he has promised. What can a mere human being do to me?

5 Every day they wrest my words: all their thoughts are against me for evil.

5 My enemies make trouble for me all day long; they are always thinking up some way to hurt me!

6 They gather themselves together, they hide themselves, they mark my steps, when they wait for my soul.

6 They gather in hiding places and watch everything I do, hoping to kill me.

7 Shall they escape by iniquity? in thine anger cast down the people, O God.

7 Punish them, O God, for their evil; defeat those people in your anger!

8 Thou tellest my wanderings: put thou my tears into thy bottle: are they not in thy book?

8 You know how troubled I am; you have kept a record of my tears. Aren't they listed in your book?

9 When I cry unto thee, then shall mine enemies turn back: this I know; for God is for me.

9 The day I call to you, my enemies will be turned back. I know this: God is on my side -

10 In God will I praise his word: in the LORD will I praise his word.

10 the Lord, whose promises I praise.

11 In God have I put my trust: I will not be afraid what man can do unto me.

11 In him I trust, and I will not be afraid. What can a mere human being do to me?

12 Thy vows are upon me, O God: I will render praises unto thee.

12 O God, I will offer you what I have promised; I will give you my offering of thanksgiving,

13 For 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?

13 because you have rescued me from death and kept me from defeat. And so I walk in the presence of God, in the light that shines on the living.

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