DAY 134
Psalms 55-58
Psalms 55:1 Give ear to my prayer, O God; and hide not thyself from my supplication.
Psalms 55:2 Attend unto me, and hear me: I mourn in my complaint, and make a noise;
Psalms 55:3 Because of the voice of the enemy, because of the oppression of the wicked: for they cast iniquity upon me, and in wrath they hate me.
Psalms 55:4 My heart is sore pained within me: and the terrors of death are fallen upon me.
Psalms 55:5 Fearfulness and trembling are come upon me, and horror hath overwhelmed me.
Psalms 55:6 And I said, Oh that I had wings like a dove! for then would I fly away, and be at rest.
Psalms 55:7 Lo, then would I wander far off, and remain in the wilderness. Selah.
Psalms 55:8 I would hasten my escape from the windy storm and tempest.
Psalms 55:9 Destroy, O Lord, and divide their tongues: for I have seen violence and strife in the city.
Psalms 55:10 Day and night they go about it upon the walls thereof: mischief also and sorrow are in the midst of it.
Psalms 55:11 Wickedness is in the midst thereof: deceit and guile depart not from her streets.
Psalms 55:12 For it was not an enemy that reproached me; then I could have borne it: neither was it he that hated me that did magnify himself against me; then I would have hid myself from him:
Psalms 55:13 But it was thou, a man mine equal, my guide, and mine acquaintance.
Psalms 55:14 We took sweet counsel together, and walked unto the house of God in company.
Psalms 55:15 Let death seize upon them, and let them go down quick into hell: for wickedness is in their dwellings, and among them.
Psalms 55:16 As for me, I will call upon God; and the LORD shall save me.
Psalms 55:17 Evening, and morning, and at noon, will I pray, and cry aloud: and he shall hear my voice.
Psalms 55:18 He hath delivered my soul in peace from the battle that was against me: for there were many with me.
Psalms 55:19 God shall hear, and afflict them, even he that abideth of old. Selah. Because they have no changes, therefore they fear not God.
Psalms 55:20 He hath put forth his hands against such as be at peace with him: he hath broken his covenant.
Psalms 55:21 The words of his mouth were smoother than butter, but war was in his heart: his words were softer than oil, yet were they drawn swords.
Psalms 55:22 Cast thy burden upon the LORD, and he shall sustain thee: he shall never suffer the righteous to be moved.
Psalms 55:23 But thou, O God, shalt bring them down into the pit of destruction: bloody and deceitful men shall not live out half their days; but I will trust in thee.
Psalms 56:1 Be merciful unto me, O God: for man would swallow me up; he fighting daily oppresseth me.
Psalms 56:2 Mine enemies would daily swallow me up: for they be many that fight against me, O thou most High.
Psalms 56:3 What time I am afraid, I will trust in thee.
Psalms 56:4 In God I will praise his word, in God I have put my trust; I will not fear what flesh can do unto me.
Psalms 56:5 Every day they wrest my words: all their thoughts are against me for evil.
Psalms 56:6 They gather themselves together, they hide themselves, they mark my steps, when they wait for my soul.
Psalms 56:7 Shall they escape by iniquity? in thine anger cast down the people, O God.
Psalms 56:8 Thou tellest my wanderings: put thou my tears into thy bottle: are they not in thy book?
Psalms 56:9 When I cry unto thee, then shall mine enemies turn back: this I know; for God is for me.
Psalms 56:10 In God will I praise his word: in the LORD will I praise his word.
Psalms 56:11 In God have I put my trust: I will not be afraid what man can do unto me.
Psalms 56:12 Thy vows are upon me, O God: I will render praises unto thee.
Psalms 56:13 For thou hast delivered my soul from death: wilt not thou deliver my feet from falling, that I may walk before God in the light of the living?
Psalms 57:1 Be merciful unto me, O God, be merciful unto me: for my soul trusteth in thee: yea, in the shadow of thy wings will I make my refuge, until these calamities be overpast.
Psalms 57:2 I will cry unto God most high; unto God that performeth all things for me.
Psalms 57:4 My soul is among lions: and I lie even among them that are set on fire, even the sons of men, whose teeth are spears and arrows, and their tongue a sharp sword.
Psalms 57:5 Be thou exalted, O God, above the heavens; let thy glory be above all the earth.
Psalms 57:6 They have prepared a net for my steps; my soul is bowed down: they have digged a pit before me, into the midst whereof they are fallen themselves. Selah.
Psalms 57:7 My heart is fixed, O God, my heart is fixed: I will sing and give praise.
Psalms 57:8 Awake up, my glory; awake, psaltery and harp: I myself will awake early.
Psalms 57:9 I will praise thee, O Lord, among the people: I will sing unto thee among the nations.
Psalms 57:10 For thy mercy is great unto the heavens, and thy truth unto the clouds.
Psalms 57:11 Be thou exalted, O God, above the heavens: let thy glory be above all the earth.
Psalms 58:1 Do ye indeed speak righteousness, O congregation? do ye judge uprightly, O ye sons of men?
Psalms 58:2 Yea, in heart ye work wickedness; ye weigh the violence of your hands in the earth.
Psalms 58:3 The wicked are estranged from the womb: they go astray as soon as they be born, speaking lies.
Psalms 58:4 Their poison is like the poison of a serpent: they are like the deaf adder that stoppeth her ear;
Psalms 58:5 Which will not hearken to the voice of charmers, charming never so wisely.
Psalms 58:6 Break their teeth, O God, in their mouth: break out the great teeth of the young lions, O LORD.
Psalms 58:7 Let them melt away as waters which run continually: when he bendeth his bow to shoot his arrows, let them be as cut in pieces.
Psalms 58:8 As a snail which melteth, let every one of them pass away: like the untimely birth of a woman, that they may not see the sun.
Psalms 58:9 Before your pots can feel the thorns, he shall take them away as with a whirlwind, both living, and in his wrath.
Psalms 58:10 The righteous shall rejoice when he seeth the vengeance: he shall wash his feet in the blood of the wicked.
Psalms 58:11 So that a man shall say, Verily there is a reward for the righteous: verily he is a God that judgeth in the earth.