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 Overseer with stringed instruments. --An instruction, by David. Give ear, O God, to my prayer, And hide not from my supplication.+2Attend to me, and answer me, I mourn in my meditation, and make a noise,+3Because of the voice of an enemy, Because of the oppression of the wicked, For they cause sorrow to move against me, And in anger they hate me.+4My heart is pained within me, And terrors of death have fallen on me.+5Fear and trembling come in to me, And horror doth cover me.+6And I say, `Who doth give to me a pinion as a dove? I fly away and rest,+7Lo, I move far off, I lodge in a wilderness. Selah.+8I hasten escape for myself, From a rushing wind, from a whirlwind.+9Swallow up, O Lord, divide their tongue, For I saw violence and strife in a city.+10By day and by night they go round it, on its walls. Both iniquity and perverseness are in its midst,+11Mischiefs are in its midst. Fraud and deceit depart not from its street.+12For an enemy reproacheth me not, or I bear it, He who is hating me Hath not magnified himself against me, Or I hide from him.+13But thou, a man--as mine equal, My familiar friend, and mine acquaintance.+14When together we sweeten counsel, Into the house of God we walk in company.+15Desolations are upon them, They go down to Sheol--alive, For wickedness is in their dwelling, in their midst.+16I--to God I call, and Jehovah saveth me.+17Evening, and morning, and noon, I meditate, and make a noise, and He heareth my voice,+18He hath ransomed in peace my soul From him who is near to me, For with the multitude they were with me.+19God doth hear and afflict them, And He sitteth of old. Selah. Because they have no changes, and fear not God,+20He hath sent forth his hands against his well-wishers, He hath polluted his covenant.+21Sweeter than honey hath been his mouth, And his heart is war! Softer have been his words than oil, And they are drawn swords.+22Cast on Jehovah that which He hath given thee, And He doth sustain thee, He doth not suffer for ever the moving of the righteous.+23And Thou, O God, dost bring them down To a pit of destruction, Men of blood and deceit reach not to half their days, And I--I do trust in Thee!+
Young's Literal Translation
Young's Literal Translation (1898). Public domain.
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