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<H2>Psalm 55</H2>
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<H3 id=p19055001.01-1>Cast Your Burden on the <SPAN class=small-caps>Lord</SPAN></H3>
<H4 class=psalm-title id=p19055001.07-1>To the choirmaster: with stringed </H4>
<H4 class=psalm-title>instruments. A Maskil of David.</H4>
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<P class=line-group id=p19055001.17-1><SPAN class=chapter-num id=v19055001-1>1 </SPAN>Give ear to my prayer, O God, and hide not yourself from my plea for mercy!<BR><SPAN class=verse-num id=v19055002-1>2 </SPAN>Attend to me, and answer me; I am restless in my complaint and I moan,<BR><SPAN class=verse-num id=v19055003-1>3 </SPAN>because of the noise of the enemy, because of the oppression of the wicked. For they drop trouble upon me, and in anger they bear a grudge against me.</P>
<P class=line-group id=p19055004.01-1><SPAN class=verse-num id=v19055004-1>4 </SPAN>My heart is in anguish within me; the terrors of death have fallen upon me.<BR><SPAN class=verse-num id=v19055005-1>5 </SPAN>Fear and trembling come upon me, and horror overwhelms me.<BR><SPAN class=verse-num id=v19055006-1>6 </SPAN>And I say, “Oh, that I had wings like a dove! I would fly away and be at rest;<BR><SPAN class=verse-num id=v19055007-1>7 </SPAN>yes, I would wander far away; I would lodge in the wilderness; <SPAN class=selah>Selah</SPAN><BR><SPAN class=verse-num id=v19055008-1>8 </SPAN>I would hurry to find a shelter from the raging wind and tempest.”</P>
<P class=line-group id=p19055009.01-1><SPAN class=verse-num id=v19055009-1>9 </SPAN>Destroy, O Lord, divide their tongues; for I see violence and strife in the city.<BR><SPAN class=verse-num id=v19055010-1>10 </SPAN>Day and night they go around it on its walls, and iniquity and trouble are within it;<BR><SPAN class=indent></SPAN><SPAN class=verse-num id=v19055011-1>11 </SPAN>ruin is in its midst; oppression and fraud do not depart from its marketplace.</P>
<P class=line-group id=p19055012.01-1><SPAN class=verse-num id=v19055012-1>12 </SPAN>For it is not an enemy who taunts me— then I could bear it; it is not an adversary who deals insolently with me— then I could hide from him.<BR><SPAN class=verse-num id=v19055013-1>13 </SPAN>But it is you, a man, my equal, my companion, my familiar friend.<BR><SPAN class=verse-num id=v19055014-1>14 </SPAN>We used to take sweet counsel together; within God's house we walked in the throng.<BR><SPAN class=verse-num id=v19055015-1>15 </SPAN>Let death steal over them; let them go down to Sheol alive; for evil is in their dwelling place and in their heart.</P>
<P class=line-group id=p19055016.01-1><SPAN class=verse-num id=v19055016-1>16 </SPAN>But I call to God, and the <SPAN class=small-caps>Lord</SPAN> will save me.<BR><SPAN class=verse-num id=v19055017-1>17 </SPAN>Evening and morning and at noon I utter my complaint and moan, and he hears my voice.<BR><SPAN class=verse-num id=v19055018-1>18 </SPAN>He redeems my soul in safety from the battle that I wage, for many are arrayed against me.<BR><SPAN class=verse-num id=v19055019-1>19 </SPAN>God will give ear and humble them, he who is enthroned from of old, <SPAN class=selah>Selah </SPAN>because they do not change and do not fear God.</P>
<P class=line-group id=p19055020.01-1><SPAN class=verse-num id=v19055020-1>20 </SPAN>My companion<SPAN class=footnote> </SPAN>stretched out his hand against his friends; he violated his covenant.<BR><SPAN class=verse-num id=v19055021-1>21 </SPAN>His speech was smooth as butter, yet war was in his heart; his words were softer than oil, yet they were drawn swords.</P>
<P class=line-group id=p19055022.01-1><SPAN class=verse-num id=v19055022-1>22 </SPAN>Cast your burden on the <SPAN class=small-caps>Lord</SPAN>, and he will sustain you; he will never permit the righteous to be moved.</P>
<P class=line-group id=p19055023.01-1><SPAN class=verse-num id=v19055023-1>23 </SPAN>But you, O God, will cast them down into the pit of destruction; men of blood and treachery shall not live out half their days. But I will trust in you.</P></DIV></DIV>
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