Thematic Bible
Psalm 55:1 (show verse)
Pay attention to my prayer, God, and do not hide yourself from my appeal.
Psalm 55:2 (show verse)
Pay attention to me and answer me. I moan and groan in my thoughts,
Psalm 55:3 (show verse)
because of the voice of the enemy, and because of the oppression of the wicked. They bring down evil upon me, and in anger they hate me.
No Themes for this verse.
Psalm 55:4 (show verse)
My heart is trembling within me, and the terrors of death have assaulted me.
No Themes for this verse.
Psalm 55:5 (show verse)
Fear and trembling have overwhelmed me, and horror has covered me.
Psalm 55:6 (show verse)
I said, "O, who will give me the wings of a dove, so that I could fly away and live somewhere else?
Psalm 55:7 (show verse)
Look, I want to flee far away; I want to settle down in the wilderness. Interlude
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Psalm 55:8 (show verse)
I want to deliver myself quickly from this windstorm and tempest."
Psalm 55:9 (show verse)
Confound them, Lord, and confuse their speech, because I have seen violence and strife in the city.
Psalm 55:10 (show verse)
Day and night they prowl around its walls; evil and iniquity are within it.
No Themes for this verse.
Psalm 55:11 (show verse)
Wickedness is at the center of it; fraud and lies never leave its streets.
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Psalm 55:12 (show verse)
For it is not an enemy who insults me I could have handled that nor is it someone who hates me and who now arises against me I could have hidden myself from him
Psalm 55:13 (show verse)
but it is you a man whom I treated as my equal my personal confidant, my close friend!
Psalm 55:14 (show verse)
We had good fellowship together; and we even walked together in the house of God!
Psalm 55:15 (show verse)
Let death seize them! May they be plunged alive into the afterlife, for wicked things are in their homes and among them.
Psalm 55:16 (show verse)
I call upon God, and the LORD will deliver me.
Psalm 55:17 (show verse)
Morning, noon, and night, I mulled over these things and cried out in my distress, and he heard my voice.
Psalm 55:18 (show verse)
He calmly ransomed my soul from the war waged against me, for there was a vast crowd who stood against me.
Psalm 55:19 (show verse)
God, who is enthroned from long ago, will hear me and humble them. Interlude Because they do not repent, they do not fear God.
Psalm 55:20 (show verse)
Each of my friends raises his hand against his allies; each of my friends breaks his word.
Psalm 55:21 (show verse)
His mouth is as smooth as butter, while war is in his heart. His words were as smooth as olive oil, while his sword is drawn.
Psalm 55:22 (show verse)
Cast on the LORD whatever he sends your way, and he will sustain you. He will never allow the righteous to be shaken.
Psalm 55:23 (show verse)
But you, God, bring them down to the Pit of corruption; bloodthirsty and deceitful people will not live out half their days. But I put my full confidence in you. To the Director: A special Davidic psalm to the tune of "A Silent Dove Far Away," when the Philistines seized him in Gath.