For the choirmaster. With stringed instruments. A Maskil + 55:1 Maskil is probably a musical or liturgical term; used for Psalms 32, 42, 44–45, 52–55, 74, 78, 88–89, and 142. of David.
551<To the chief music-maker, on Neginoth. Maschil. Of David.> Give hearing to my prayer, O God; and let not your ear be shut against my request.+2Give thought to me, and let my prayer be answered: I have been made low in sorrow;+3I am troubled because of the voice of the cruel ones, because of the loud cry of the evil-doers; for they put a weight of evil on me, and they are cruel in their hate for me.+4My heart is deeply wounded, and the fear of death has come on me.+5Fear and shaking have come over me, with deep fear I am covered.+6And I said, If only I had wings like a dove! for then I would go in flight from here and be at rest.+7I would go wandering far away, living in the waste land. (Selah.)+8I would quickly take cover from the driving storm and from the violent wind.+9Send destruction on them, O Lord, make a division of tongues among them: for I have seen fighting and violent acts in the town.+10By day and night they go round the town, on the walls; trouble and sorrow are in the heart of it.+11Evil is there; cruel rule and deceit are ever in the streets.+12For it was not my hater who said evil of me; that would have been no grief to me; it was not one outside the number of my friends who made himself strong against me, or I would have kept myself from him in a secret place;+13But it was you, my equal, my guide, my well-loved friend.+14We had loving talk together, and went to the house of God in company.+15Let the hand of death come on them suddenly, and let them go down living into the underworld; because evil is in their houses and in their hearts.+16As for me, I will make my prayer to God, and he will be my saviour.+17In the evening and in the morning and in the middle of the day I will make my prayer with sounds of grief; and my voice will come to his ears.+18He has taken my soul away from the attack which was made against me, and given it peace; for great numbers were against me.+19God will give thought to me; he who from early times is strong will send pain and trouble on them. (Selah.) Because they are unchanged, they have no fear of God.+20He has put out his hand against those who were at peace with him; he has not kept his agreement.+21The words of his mouth were smoother than butter, but war was in his heart; his words were softer than oil, but they were sharp swords.+22Put your cares on the Lord, and he will be your support; he will not let the upright man be moved.+23But you, O God, will send them down into the underworld; the cruel and the false will be cut off before half their days are ended; but I will have faith in you.+
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