Psalms 54

¹Unto the end. In verses, the understanding of David

²Listen to my prayer, O God, and despise not my supplication

³Be attentive to me, and heed me. I have been grieved in my training, and I have been disturbe

⁴at the voice of the adversary and at the tribulation of the sinner. For they have diverted iniquities toward me, and they have been harassing me with rage

⁵My heart has become disturbed within me, and the dread of death has fallen over me

⁶Fear and trembling have overwhelmed me, and darkness has buried me

⁷And I said, “Who will give me wings like the dove, so that I may fly away and take rest?

⁸Behold, I have fled far away, and I linger in solitude

⁹I waited for him who saved me from a weak-minded spirit and from a tempest

¹⁰Cast them down, O Lord, and divide their tongues. For I have seen iniquity and contradiction in the city

¹¹Day and night, iniquity will surround it upon its walls, and hardship is in its midst

¹²with injustice. And usury and deceit have not fallen away from its streets

¹³For if my enemy had spoken evil about me, certainly, I would have sustained it. And if he who hated me had been speaking great things against me, I would perhaps have hidden myself from him

¹⁴Truly, you are a man of one mind: my leader and my acquaintance

¹⁵who took sweet food together with me. In the house of God, we walked side-by-side

¹⁶Let death come upon them, and let them descend alive into Hellfire. For there is wickedness in their dwellings, in their midst

¹⁷But I have cried out to God, and the Lord will save me

¹⁸Evening and morning and midday, I will discourse and announce, and he will heed my voice

¹⁹He will redeem my soul in peace from those who draw near to me. For, among the many, they were with me

²⁰God will hear, and He who is before time will humble them. For there is no change with them, and they have not feared God

²¹He has stretched forth his hand in retribution. They have contaminated his covenant

²²They were divided by the wrath of his countenance, and his heart has drawn near. His words are smoother than oil, and they are arrows

²³Cast your cares upon the Lord, and he will nurture you. He will not allow the just to be tossed about forever

²⁴Truly, O God, you will lead them away into the well of death. Bloody and deceitful men will not divide their days in half. But I will hope in you, O Lord