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.
551To the chief Musician. On stringed instruments: an instruction. Of David. Give ear to my prayer, OGod; and hide not thyself from my supplication.+2Attend unto me, and answer me: I wander about in my plaint, and I moan aloud,+3Because of the voice of the enemy; because of the oppression of the wicked: for they cast iniquity upon me, and in anger they persecute me.+4My heart is writhing within me, and the terrors of death are fallen upon me.+5Fear and trembling are come upon me, and horror hath overwhelmed me.+6And I said, Oh that I had wings like a dove! I would fly away, and be at rest;+7Behold, I would flee afar off, I would lodge in the wilderness; Selah;+8I would hasten my escape from the stormy wind, from the tempest.+9Swallow [them] up, Lord; divide their tongue: for I have seen violence and strife in the city.+10Day and night they go about it upon the walls thereof; and iniquity and mischief are in the midst of it.+11Perversities are in the midst thereof; and oppression and deceit depart not from its streets.+12For it is not an enemy that hath reproached me — then could I have borne it; neither is it he that hateth me that hath magnified [himself] against me — then would I have hidden myself from him;+13But it was thou, a man mine equal, mine intimate, my familiar friend....+14We who held sweet intercourse together. To the house ofGod we walked amid the throng.+15Let death seize upon them, let them go down alive into Sheol. For wickedness is in their dwellings, in their midst.+16As for me, untoGod will I call; and Jehovah will save me.+17Evening, and morning, and at noon, will I pray and moan aloud; and he will hear my voice.+18He hath redeemed my soul in peace from the battle against me: for there were many about me.+19God will hear, and afflict them: he that is seated of old, (Selah)...because there is no change in them, and they fear notGod.+20He hath put forth his hands against such as are at peace with him; he hath profaned his covenant.+21Smooth were the milky [words] of his mouth, but his heart was war; his words were softer than oil, yet are they drawn swords.+22Cast thy burden upon Jehovah, and he will sustain thee: he will never suffer the righteous to be moved.+23And thou, OGod, wilt bring them down into the pit of destruction: bloody and deceitful men shall not live out half their days. But as for me, I will confide in thee.+
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