Psalms 56:1–13

^{To the director on the Silent Dove among those far away. Of David. Mik′tam. When the Phi‧lis′tines laid hold of him in Gath.}

¹Show me favor, O God, because mortal man has snapped at me.
Warring all day long, he keeps oppressing me.

²My foes have kept snapping all day long,
For there are many warring against me high‐mindedly.

³Whatever day I get afraid, I, for my part, shall trust even in you.

⁴In union with God I shall praise his word.
In God I have put my trust; I shall not be afraid.
What can flesh do to me?

⁵All day long they keep hurting my personal affairs;
All their thoughts are against me for bad.

⁶They attack, they conceal themselves,
They, for their part, keep observing my very steps,
While they have waited for my soul.

⁷On account of [their] hurtfulness cast them forth.
In anger bring down even the peoples, O God.

⁸My being a fugitive you yourself have reported.
Do put my tears in your skin bottle.
Are they not in your book?

⁹At that time my enemies will turn back, on the day that I call;
This I well know, that God is for me.

¹⁰In union with God I shall praise [his] word;
In union with Jehovah I shall praise [his] word.

¹¹In God I have put my trust. I shall not be afraid.
What can earthling man do to me?

¹²Upon me, O God, there are vows to you.
I shall render expressions of thanksgiving to you.

¹³For you have delivered my soul from death—
[Have you] not [delivered] my feet from stumbling?—
That [I] may walk about before God in the light of those alive.