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Psalm 56

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1967
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Scottish Metrical Psalter (1650)

Vers 1

Shew mercy, Lord, to me, for man
would swallow me outright;
He me oppresseth, while he doth
against me daily fight.

Vers 2

They daily would me swallow up
that hate me spitefully;
For they be many that do fight
against me, O most High.

Vers 3

When I’m afraid I’ll trust in thee:
In God I’ll praise his word;
I will not fear what flesh can do,
my trust is in the Lord.

Vers 4

Each day they wrest my words; their thoughts
’gainst me are all for ill.
They meet, they lurk, they mark my steps,
waiting my soul to kill.

Vers 5

But shall they by iniquity
escape thy judgments so?
O God, with indignation down
do thou the people throw.

Vers 6

My wand’rings all what they have been
thou know’st, their number took;
Into thy bottle put my tears:
are they not in thy book?

Vers 7

My foes shall, when I cry, turn back;
I know’t, God is for me.
In God his word I’ll praise; his word
in God shall praised be.

Vers 8

In God I trust; I will not fear
what man can do to me.
Thy vows upon me are, O God:
I’ll render praise to thee.

Vers 9

Wilt thou not, who from death me sav’d,
my feet from falls keep free,
To walk before God in the light
of those that living be?
About this psalm

Psalm 56 is a psalm of David and belongs to Book II (Psalm 42–72) of the Psalter.

Psalms of lament Psalms of trust
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