Psalms 54

¹Unto the end in songs, understanding to David.

²Hear my prayer, o God, despise not my petition.

³Attend to me and hear me.

⁴I am made sorrowful in my exercise: and am troubled at the voice of the enemy: and at the tribulation of the sinner. Because they have wrested iniquities upon me: & in anger they were troublesome to me.

⁵My heart is troubled in me: & the fear of death is fallen upon me.

⁶Fear and trembling are come upon me: and darkness hath covered me.

⁷And I said: Who will give me wings as of a dove, and I will fly: and rest?

⁸Lo I have gone far flying away: and I abode in the wilderness.

⁹I expected him, that saved me from pusillanimity of spirit, and tempest.

¹⁰Precipitate, o Lord, and divide their tongues: because I have seen iniquity, and contradiction in the city.

¹¹Day and night shall iniquity compass it upon the walls thereof, and labour in the midst thereof, and injustice.

¹²And there hath not ceased out of the streets thereof usury and guile.

¹³For if mine enemy had spoken evil to me, I would verily have born it. And if he that hated me had spoken great things upon me: I would perhaps have hid myself from him.

¹⁴But thou a man of the same mind: my guide, and my familiar.

¹⁵Which didest take sweet meats together with me: in the house of God we walked with consent.

¹⁶Let death come upon them: and let them go down quick into hell. Because there is wickedness in their habitations, in the midst of them.

¹⁷But I have cried to God, and our Lord will save me.

¹⁸In the evening, and morning, & at midday, I will speak, and declare, and he will hear my voice.

¹⁹He will redeem my soul in peace from them, that approach to me: because among many they were with me.

²⁰God will hear, and he which is before the worlds will humble them.

²¹For there is no change with them, & they feared not God: he hath stretched forth his hand in repaying.

²²They have contaminated his testament, they are divided by the wrath of his countenance; and his heart hath approached. His words are made softer than oil: and the same are darts.

²³Cast thy care upon our Lord: and he will nourish thee: he will not give fluctuation to the just for ever.

²⁴But thou, o God, wilt bring them down into the pit of destruction. Bloody and deceitful men shall not live half their days, but I will hope in thee, o Lord.