A Call for God’s Protection
1 For the choir director: according to “A Silent Dove Far Away.”(a) A Davidic Miktam. When the Philistines seized him in Gath.(A)
Be gracious to me, God, for man tramples me;
he fights and oppresses me all day long.
2 he fights and oppresses me all day long.
Footnotes:
a.
Psalm 56:1: Possibly a tune
b.
Psalm 56:2: Or many fight against me, O exalted One, or many fight against me from the heights
c.
Psalm 56:6: Or They attack
d.
Psalm 56:8: Or misery
e.
Psalm 56:12: Lit On me the vows
Cross references:
I.
Psalm 56:9:
Psalm 9:3