To the chief musician, on Neginoth : an instruction of David.{HR}Give ear to my prayer, O God,{HR}And hide not thyself from my supplication.
Attend unto me and answer me.{HR}I am restless in my plaint and moan,{HR}Because of the voice of the enemy,
Because of the oppression of the wicked;{HR}For they cast iniquity upon me,{HR}And in anger they persecute me.
My heart is writhing within me,{HR}And the terrors of death have fallen upon me.
Fear and trembling are come upon me,{HR}And horror hath overwhelmed me.
And I said, Who will give me wings as the dove?{HR}I would fly away and be at rest.
Behold, I would flee far off,{HR}I would lodge in the wilderness. Selah.
I would hasten my escape from stormy wind, from tempest.
Swallow up, O Lord, divide their tongue;{HR}For I have seen violence and strife in the city.
Day and night they surround it upon its walls;{HR}And iniquity and mischief [are] in its midst.
Perversities [are] in its midst;{HR}And oppression and deceit depart not from its streets.
For [it was] not an enemy reproached me:{HR}Then I had borne [it];{HR}Neither did he that hateth me magnify [himself] against me:{HR}Then had I hidden myself from him;
But thou, a man mine equal,{HR}Mine intimate, my familiar!
We who together sweetened counsel,{HR}To the house of God we walked in the throng.
Let death seize them,{HR}Let them go down alive [to] Sheol.{HR}For evils [are] in their dwelling, in their midst.
As for me, unto God will I call;{HR}And Jehovah will save me.
Evening and morning and noon I will complain and moan;{HR}And he will hear my voice.
He redeemed my soul in peace from the war against me,{HR}For many were [contending] with me.
God will hear and answer (afflict) them—{HR}He that is seated of old, Selah—{HR}Who have no changes and fear not God.
He put forth his hands against those at peace with him;{HR}He profaned his covenant.
Smooth as butter was his mouth,{HR}And war his heart;{HR}His words were softer than oil,{HR}And [yet] they are drawn swords.
Cast upon Jehovah thy burden ,{HR}And he will sustain thee;{HR}He will never suffer the righteous to be moved.
And thou, O God, wilt bring them down to the pit of corruption:{HR}Men of blood and deceit shall not live out half their days.{HR}But for me, I will trust in thee.