Thematic Bible
Psalm 55:1 (show verse)
Give ear to my prayer, O God, and hide not thyself from my supplication.
Psalm 55:2 (show verse)
Attend to me, and answer me. I am restless in my complaint, and moan,
Psalm 55:3 (show verse)
because of the voice of the enemy, because of the oppression of the wicked. For they cast iniquity upon me, and in anger they persecute me.
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Psalm 55:4 (show verse)
My heart is greatly pained within me, and the terrors of death have fallen upon me.
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Psalm 55:5 (show verse)
Fearfulness and trembling have come upon me, and horror has overwhelmed me.
Psalm 55:6 (show verse)
And I said, O that I had wings like a dove! Then I would fly away, and be at rest.
Psalm 55:7 (show verse)
Lo, then I would wander far off. I would lodge in the wilderness. Selah.
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Psalm 55:8 (show verse)
I would hasten myself to a shelter from the stormy wind and tempest.
Psalm 55:9 (show verse)
Destroy, O LORD, divide their tongue, for I have seen violence and strife in the city.
Psalm 55:10 (show verse)
Day and night they go about it, upon the walls of it. Iniquity and mischief also are in the midst of it.
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Psalm 55:11 (show verse)
Wickedness is in the midst of it. Oppression and deceit depart not from its streets.
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Psalm 55:12 (show verse)
For it was not an enemy who reproached me. Then I could have borne it. Neither was it he who hated me that magnified himself against me. Then I would have hid myself from him.
Psalm 55:13 (show verse)
But it was thou, a man my equal, my companion, and my familiar friend.
Psalm 55:14 (show verse)
We took sweet counsel together. We walked in the house of God with the throng.
Psalm 55:15 (show verse)
Let death come suddenly upon them. Let them go down alive into Sheol. For wickedness is in their dwelling, in the midst of them.
Psalm 55:16 (show verse)
As for me, I will call upon God, and LORD will save me.
Psalm 55:17 (show verse)
Evening, and morning, and at noonday, I will complain and moan. And he will hear my voice.
Psalm 55:18 (show verse)
He has redeemed my soul in peace from the battle that was against me, for there were many by me.
Psalm 55:19 (show verse)
God will hear, and respond to them, (even he who abides of old), Selah, [men] who have no changes, and who fear not God.
Psalm 55:20 (show verse)
He has put forth his hands against such as were at peace with him. He has profaned his covenant.
Psalm 55:21 (show verse)
His mouth was smooth as butter, but his heart was war. His words were softer than oil, yet they were drawn swords.
Psalm 55:22 (show verse)
(Cast thy burden upon LORD, and he will sustain thee. He will never allow the righteous man to be moved.)
Psalm 55:23 (show verse)
But thou, O God, will bring them down into the pit of destruction. Bloodthirsty and deceitful men shall not live out half their days, but I will trust in thee.