Psalms, psalm 56
Compare with Revised Standard Version: Psal.056
 
 

    1: Be merciful unto me, O JAH: for man would swallow me up; he fighting daily oppresseth me.
2: Mine enemies would daily swallow me up: for they be many that fight against me, O thou most High.
3: What time I am afraid, I will trust in thee.
4: In JAH I will praise his word, in JAH I have put my trust; I will not fear what flesh can do unto me.
5: Every day they wrest my words: all their thoughts are against me for evil.
6: They gather themselves together, they hide themselves, they mark my steps, when they wait for my soul.
7: Shall they escape by iniquity? in thine anger cast down the people, O JAH.
8: Thou tellest my wanderings: put thou my tears into thy bottle: are they not in thy book?
9: When I cry unto thee, then shall mine enemies turn back: this I know; for JAH is for me.
10: In JAH will I praise his word: in JAH will I praise his word.
11: In JAH have I put my trust: I will not be afraid what man can do unto me.
12: Thy vows are upon me, O JAH: I will render praises unto thee.
13: For thou hast delivered my soul from death: wilt not thou deliver my feet from falling, that I may walk before JAH in the light of the living?
 
 

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