Psalm 55

¹Unto the end, in verses, understanding for David.

²Hear, O God, my prayer, and despise not my supplication:

³Be attentive to me and hear me. I am grieved in my exercise; and am troubled,

⁴At the voice of the enemy, and at the tribulation of the sinner. For they have cast iniquities upon me: and in wrath they were troublesome to me.

⁵My heart is troubled within me: and 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 like a dove, and I will fly and be at rest?

⁸Lo, I have gone far off flying away; and I abode in the wilderness.

⁹I waited for him that hath saved me from pusillanimity of spirit, and a storm.

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

¹¹Day and night shall iniquity surround it upon its walls: and in the midst thereof are labour,

¹²And injustice. And usury and deceit have not departed from its streets.

¹³For if my enemy had reviled me, I would verily have borne with it. And if he that hated me had spoken great things against me, I would perhaps have hidden myself from him.

¹⁴But thou a man of one mind, my guide, and my familiar,

¹⁵Who didst take sweetmeats together with me: in the house of God we walked with consent.