Psalmen 56

1. ¹Be merciful unto me, O God; for man would swallow me up: All the day long he fighting oppresseth me.
2. ²Mine enemies would swallow me up all the day long; For they are many that fight proudly against me.
3. ³What time I am afraid, I will put my trust in thee.
4. 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?
5. ⁵All the day long they wrest my words: All their thoughts are against me for evil.
6. ⁶They gather themselves together, they hide themselves, They mark my steps, Even as they have waited for my soul.
7. ⁷Shall they escape by iniquity? In anger cast down the peoples, O God.
8. ⁸Thou numberest my wanderings: Put thou my tears into thy bottle; Are they not in thy book?
9. ⁹Then shall mine enemies turn back in the day that I call: This I know, that God is for me.
10. ¹⁰In God (I will praise [ergänzt: his] word), In Jehovah (I will praise [ergänzt: his] word),
11. ¹¹In God have I put my trust, I will not be afraid; What can man do unto me?
12. ¹²Thy vows are upon me, O God: I will render thank-offerings unto thee.
13. ¹³For thou hast delivered my soul from death: [ergänzt: Hast thou] not [ergänzt: delivered] my feet from falling, That I may walk before God In the light of the living? Psalm 57 For the Chief Musician; [ergänzt: set to] Al-tash-heth. [ergänzt: A Psalm] of David. Michtam; when he fled from Saul, in the cave.

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