To the chief musician on neginoth, a maskil of David
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📚✭✭Give ear to my prayer,O God,
and do not hide yourself
from my supplication.
2 📚✭Be attentive to me,
and hear me.
I am restless in my complaint
and cry out,
3 📚because of the voice
of the enemy,
because of the oppression
of the wicked.
For they bring trouble on me,
and hate me in their wrath.
4 📚✭My heart is in anguish
within me,
and the terrors of death have fallen
on me.
5 📚Fear and trembling have come
on me,
and horror has overwhelmed me.
6 📚✭And I said, “Oh, that I had wings
like a dove!
For then I would fly away
and be at rest.
7 📚Yes, then I would wander
far away and remain
in the wilderness. Selah
8 📚I would quickly make my escape
from the windy storm
and tempest”.
9 📚✭Destroy them, O Lord,
and split their tongues
in two!
For I have seen violence and
strife in the city.
10 📚Day and night they go around
it on its walls;
and evil and sorrow are
within it.
11 📚Wickedness is
within it;
deceit and guile do not depart
from its streets.
12 📚✭For it was not an enemy
who reproached me.
Then I could have endured it.
Nor was it one who hated me who
exalted himself against me.
Then I would have hidden myself
from him.
13 📚But it was you,
a man like me,
my friend and my acquaintance.
14 📚We took sweet counsel together and
walked to the house of God
with the throng.
15 📚✭Let death seize these enemies,
and let them go down alive
into hell✭,
for wickedness is among them
in their homes.
16 📚✭As for me, I will call on God;
and the LORD will save me.
17 📚Evening, and morning,
and at noon,
I will pray and cry out aloud;
and he will hear my voice.
18 📚He has delivered my soul
in peace from
the battle that was
against me;
for there were many with me.
19 📚✭God will hear, and afflict them,
the God who abides
from ancient times. Selah
Because they do not change,
therefore they do not fear God✭.
20 📚✭He has put forth his hands
against those who are at peace
with him;
he has broken his covenant.
21 📚The words of his mouth
were smoother than butter,
but war was in his heart.
His words were softer than oil,
yet they were drawn
swords.
22 📚✭Cast your burden on the LORD,
and he will sustain you.
He will never allow the righteous
to be shaken.
23 📚✭But you, O God, will bring them
down into the pit of destruction.
Bloodthirsty and deceitful men will not
live half their days.
But I will trust in you.