Psalms 56 – Psalms 60
Chapter 56
Chapter 57
Chapter 58
Chapter 59
Chapter 60
Chapter 61 – Chapter 65
Chapter 66 – Chapter 70
Chapter 71 – Chapter 75
Chapter 76 – Chapter 80
Chapter 81 – Chapter 85
Chapter 86 – Chapter 90
Chapter 91 – Chapter 95
Chapter 96 – Chapter 100
Chapter 101 – Chapter 105
Chapter 106 – Chapter 110
Chapter 111 – Chapter 115
Chapter 116 – Chapter 120
Chapter 121 – Chapter 125
Chapter 126 – Chapter 130
Chapter 131 – Chapter 135
Chapter 136 – Chapter 140
Chapter 141 – Chapter 145
Chapter 146 – Chapter 150
1Be merciful unto me, O God; for man would swallow me up:
All the day long he fighting oppresseth me.
2Mine enemies would swallow me up all the day long;
For they are many that fight proudly against me.
3What time I am afraid,
I will put my trust in thee.
4In God (I will praise his word),
In God have I put my trust, I will not be afraid;
What can flesh do unto me?
5All the day long they wrest my words:
All their thoughts are against me for evil.
6They gather themselves together, they hide themselves,
They mark my steps,
Even as they have waited for my soul.
7Shall they escape by iniquity?
In anger cast down the peoples, O God.
8Thou numberest my wanderings:
Put thou my tears into thy bottle;
Are they not in thy book?
9Then shall mine enemies turn back in the day that I call:
This I know, that God is for me.
10In God (I will praise [his] word),
In Jehovah (I will praise [his] word),
11In God have I put my trust, I will not be afraid;
What can man do unto me?
12Thy vows are upon me, O God:
I will render thank-offerings unto thee.
13For thou hast delivered my soul from death:
[Hast thou] not [delivered] my feet from falling,
That I may walk before God
In the light of the living?
1Be merciful unto me, O God, be merciful unto me;
For my soul taketh refuge in thee:
Yea, in the shadow of thy wings will I take refuge,
Until [these] calamities be overpast.
2I will cry unto God Most High,
Unto God that performeth [all things] for me.
3He will send from heaven, and save me,
[When] he that would swallow me up reproacheth;
Selah
God will send forth his lovingkindness and his truth.
4My soul is among lions;
I lie among them that are set on fire,
Even the sons of men, whose teeth are spears and arrows,
And their tongue a sharp sword.
5Be thou exalted, O God, above the heavens;
[Let] thy glory [be] above all the earth.
6They have prepared a net for my steps;
My soul is bowed down:
They have digged a pit before me;
They are fallen into the midst thereof themselves.
Selah
7My heart is fixed, O God, my heart is fixed:
I will sing, yea, I will sing praises.
8Awake up, my glory; awake, psaltery and harp:
I myself will awake right early.
9I will give thanks unto thee, O Lord, among the peoples:
I will sing praises unto thee among the nations.
10For thy lovingkindness is great unto the heavens,
And thy truth unto the skies.
11Be thou exalted, O God, above the heavens;
[Let] thy glory [be] above all the earth.
1Do ye indeed in silence speak righteousness?
Do ye judge uprightly, O ye sons of men?
2Nay, in heart ye work wickedness;
Ye weigh out the violence of your hands in the earth.
3The wicked are estranged from the womb:
They go astray as soon as they are born, speaking lies.
4Their poison is like the poison of a serpent:
[They are] like the deaf adder that stoppeth her ear,
5Which hearkeneth not to the voice of charmers,
Charming never so wisely.
6Break their teeth, O God, in their mouth:
Break out the great teeth of the young lions, O Jehovah.
7Let them melt away as water that runneth apace:
When he aimeth his arrows, let them be as though they were cut
off.
8[Let them be] as a snail which melteth and passeth away,
[Like] the untimely birth of a woman, that hath not seen the sun.
9Before your pots can feel the thorns,
He will take them away with a whirlwind, the green and the
burning alike.
10The righteous shall rejoice when he seeth the vengeance:
He shall wash his feet in the blood of the wicked;
11So that men shall say, Verily there is a reward for the
righteous:
Verily there is a God that judgeth in the earth.
1Deliver me from mine enemies, O my God:
Set me on high from them that rise up against me.
2Deliver me from the workers of iniquity,
And save me from the bloodthirsty men.
3For, lo, they lie in wait for my soul;
The mighty gather themselves together against me:
Not for my transgression, nor for my sin, O Jehovah.
4They run and prepare themselves without [my] fault:
Awake thou to help me, and behold.
5Even thou, O Jehovah God of hosts, the God of Israel,
Arise to visit all the nations:
Be not merciful to any wicked transgressors.
Selah
6They return at evening, they howl like a dog,
And go round about the city.
7Behold, they belch out with their mouth;
Swords are in their lips:
For who, [say they], doth hear?
8But thou, O Jehovah, wilt laugh at them;
Thou wilt have all the nations in derision.
9[Because of] his strength I will give heed unto thee;
For God is my high tower.
10My God with his lovingkindness will meet me:
God will let me see [my desire] upon mine enemies.
11Slay them not, lest my people forget:
Scatter them by thy power, and bring them down,
O Lord our shield.
12[For] the sin of their mouth, [and] the words of their
lips,
Let them even be taken in their pride,
And for cursing and lying which they speak.
13Consume them in wrath, consume them, so that they shall
be no more:
And let them know that God ruleth in Jacob,
Unto the ends of the earth.
Selah
14And at evening let them return, let them howl like a dog,
And go round about the city.
15They shall wander up and down for food,
And tarry all night if they be not satisfied.
16But I will sing of thy strength;
Yea, I will sing aloud of thy lovingkindness in the morning:
For thou hast been my high tower,
And a refuge in the day of my distress.
17Unto thee, O my strength, will I sing praises:
For God is my high tower, the God of my mercy.
1O God thou hast cast us off, thou hast broken us down;
Thou hast been angry; oh restore us again.
2Thou hast made the land to tremble; thou hast rent it:
Heal the breaches thereof; for it shaketh.
3Thou hast showed thy people hard things:
Thou hast made us to drink the wine of staggering.
4Thou hast given a banner to them that fear thee,
That it may be displayed because of the truth.
Selah
5That thy beloved may be delivered,
Save with thy right hand, and answer us.
6God hath spoken in his holiness: I will exult;
I will divide Shechem, and mete out the valley of Succoth.
7Gilead is mine, and Manasseh is mine;
Ephraim also is the defence of my head;
Judah is my sceptre.
8Moab is my washpot;
Upon Edom will I cast my shoe:
Philistia, shout thou because of me.
9Who will bring me into the strong city?
Who hath led me unto Edom?
10Hast not thou, O God, cast us off?
And thou goest not forth, O God, with our hosts.
11Give us help against the adversary;
For vain is the help of man.
12Through God we shall do valiantly;
For he it is that will tread down our adversaries.
October 24, 2015 at 5:25 pm |
In Psalm 56 the writer stressed the fact that it is only in the Lord where he puts his trust. As a normal human being he felt fear in the midst of the threat from his enemies. What made him different from others, though, was his faith in the mighty arm of God that protects him. I also feel afraid f many things in my life. Oftentimes my fear causes me to become unstable in my thinking. But it was because I really did not trust in the Lord completely. The psalmist is right: there is nothing to fear with men if one’s trust is totally grounded in the Lord.