PSALM 56

¹For the lead player, on jonath elem rehokim, a David michtam, when the Philistines seized him in Gath.

    ²Grant me grace, O God,

          for a man tramples me,

              all day long the assailant does press me.

    ³My attackers trample me all day long,

          for many assail me, O High One.

    ⁴When I fear, I trust in You,

    ⁵in God, Whose word I praise,

          in God I trust, I shall not fear.

              What can flesh do to me?

    ⁶All day long they put pain in my words,

          against me all their plots for evil.

    ⁷They scheme, they lie low,

          they keep at my heels

              as they hope for my life.

    ⁸For their mischief free me from them.

          In wrath bring down peoples, O God.

    ⁹My flagrant fate You Yourself have counted out—

          put my tears in Your flask.

              Are they not in Your counting?

    ¹⁰Then shall my enemies turn back

          on the day I call.

              This I know, that God is for me.

    ¹¹In God, Whose word I praise,

          in the LORD Whose word I praise,

    ¹²in God I trust, I shall not fear.

          What can man do to me?

    ¹³I take upon me, O God, my vows to You.

          I shall pay thanksgiving offerings to You.

    ¹⁴For You saved me from death,

          yes, my foot from slipping,

    to walk in God’s presence

          in the light of life.