Psalm 56

¹  Be merciful to me, God, for man wants to swallow me up.
    All day long, he attacks and oppresses me.
² My enemies want to swallow me up all day long,
    for they are many who fight proudly against me.
³ When I am afraid,
    I will put my trust in you.
⁴ In God, I praise his word.
    In God, I put my trust.
I will not be afraid.
    What can flesh do to me?
⁵ All day long they twist my words.
    All their thoughts are against me for evil.
⁶ They conspire and lurk,
    watching my steps.
    They are eager to take my life.
⁷ Shall they escape by iniquity?
    In anger cast down the peoples, God.
⁸ You count my wanderings.
    You put my tears into your container.
    Aren’t they in your book?
⁹ Then my enemies shall turn back in the day that I call.
    I know this: that God is for me.
¹⁰ In God, I will praise his word.
    In Yahweh, I will praise his word.
¹¹ I have put my trust in God.
    I will not be afraid.
    What can man do to me?
¹² Your vows are on me, God.
    I will give thank offerings to you.
¹³ For you have delivered my soul from death,
    and prevented my feet from falling,
    that I may walk before God in the light of the living.

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