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55:1  To the leader: with stringed instruments. A Maskil of David. Give ear to my prayer, O God; do not hide yourself from my supplication.
55:2  Attend to me, and answer me; I am troubled in my complaint. I am distraught
55:3  by the noise of the enemy, because of the clamour of the wicked. For they bring trouble upon me, and in anger they cherish enmity against me.
55:4  My heart is in anguish within me, the terrors of death have fallen upon me.
55:5  Fear and trembling come upon me, and horror overwhelms me.
55:6  And I say, ‘O that I had wings like a dove! I would fly away and be at rest;
55:7  truly, I would flee far away; I would lodge in the wilderness;Selah
55:8  I would hurry to find a shelter for myself from the raging wind and tempest.’
55:9  Confuse, O Lord, confound their speech; for I see violence and strife in the city.
55:10  Day and night they go around it on its walls, and iniquity and trouble are within it;
55:11  ruin is in its midst; oppression and fraud do not depart from its market-place.
55:12  It is not enemies who taunt me— I could bear that; it is not adversaries who deal insolently with me— I could hide from them.
55:13  But it is you, my equal, my companion, my familiar friend,
55:14  with whom I kept pleasant company; we walked in the house of God with the throng.
55:15  Let death come upon them; let them go down alive to Sheol; for evil is in their homes and in their hearts.
55:16  But I call upon God, and the Lord will save me.
55:17  Evening and morning and at noon I utter my complaint and moan, and he will hear my voice.
55:18  He will redeem me unharmed from the battle that I wage, for many are arrayed against me.
55:19  God, who is enthroned from of old,Selah will hear, and will humble them— because they do not change, and do not fear God.
55:20  My companion laid hands on a friend and violated a covenant with me
55:21  with speech smoother than butter, but with a heart set on war; with words that were softer than oil, but in fact were drawn swords.
55:22  Cast your burden on the Lord, and he will sustain you; he will never permit the righteous to be moved.
55:23  But you, O God, will cast them down into the lowest pit; the bloodthirsty and treacherous shall not live out half their days. But I will trust in you.