To the chief musician on Jonath-elem-rehokim, a miktam of David, when the Philistines took him in Gath
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📚✭✭Be merciful to me, O God,for man would swallow me up;
fighting all day he oppresses me.
2 📚All day my enemies would
swallow me up,
for there are many
who fight against me,
O Most High.
3 📚✭When I am afraid, I will 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 to me.
5 📚✭All day they twist my words.
All their thoughts are
against me for evil.
6 📚They gather themselves together,
they hide themselves,
they watch my steps
while they lie in wait for my life.
7 📚Shall they escape by wickedness?
In your anger cast down
the people, O God!
8 📚✭You count up my wanderings.
Put my tears in your bottle✭.
Are they not in your book✭?
9 📚✭When I cry out to you,
my enemies will turn back.
I know this, for God is
for me.
10 📚In God I will praise
his word;
in the LORD I will praise his word.
11 📚In God I have put my trust;
I will not be afraid what man
can do to me.
12 📚✭Vows to you are on me, O God.
I will render praises to you.
13 📚For you have delivered my soul
from death✭.
Will you not deliver
my feet from falling✭,
that I may walk before God
in the light of the living?