Psalm 56

For the director of music. A miktam of David after the Philistines had captured him in Gath. To the tune of "A Dove on Distant Oak Trees."

1 God, show me your favor. Men are chasing me.
All day long they keep attacking me.

2 Those who tell lies about me chase me all day long.
Many proud people are attacking me.
3 When I'm afraid,
I will trust in you.

4 I trust in God. I praise his word.
I trust in God. I will not be afraid.
What can people do to me?
5 All day long they twist my words.
They are always making plans to harm me.

6 They get together and hide.
They watch my steps.
They hope to kill me.
7 Make sure you don't let them escape.
God, bring down the nations in your anger.

8 Write down my poem of sadness.
List my tears on your scroll.
Aren't you making a record of them?
9 My enemies will turn back
when I call out to you for help.
Then I will know that God is on my side.
10 I trust in God. I praise his word.
I trust in the Lord. I praise his word.

11 I trust in God. I will not be afraid.
What can mere men do to me?
12 God, I have made promises to you.
I will bring my thank offerings to you.
13 You have saved me from death.
You have kept me from tripping and falling.
Now I can live with you
in the light that leads to life.

Psalm 56

1 Be merciful unto me, O God; for man would swallow me up: All the day long he fighting oppresseth me.

2 Mine enemies would swallow me up all the day long; For they are many that fight proudly against me.

3 What time I am afraid, I will put my trust in thee.

4 In God (I will praise his word), In God have I put my trust, I will not be afraid; What can flesh do unto me?

5 All the day long they wrest my words: All their thoughts are against me for evil.

6 They gather themselves together, they hide themselves, They mark my steps, Even as they have waited for my soul.

7 Shall they escape by iniquity? In anger cast down the peoples, O God.

8 Thou numberest my wanderings: Put thou my tears into thy bottle; Are they not in thy book?

9 Then shall mine enemies turn back in the day that I call: This I know, that God is for me.

10 In God (I will praise his word), In Jehovah (I will praise his word),

11 In God have I put my trust, I will not be afraid; What can man do unto me?

12 Thy vows are upon me, O God: I will render thank-offerings unto thee.

13 For thou hast delivered my soul from death: Hast thou not delivered my feet from falling, That I may walk before God In the light of the living?