Arrogant foes are attacking me;(A)
    ruthless people(B) are trying to kill me(C)
    people without regard for God.[a](D)

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Footnotes

  1. Psalm 54:3 The Hebrew has Selah (a word of uncertain meaning) here.

For strangers are risen up against me, and oppressors seek after my soul: they have not set God before them. Selah.

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For strangers have risen up against me,
And oppressors have sought after my life;
They have not set God before them. Selah

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Reach down your hand from on high;(A)
    deliver me and rescue me(B)
from the mighty waters,(C)
    from the hands of foreigners(D)

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Send thine hand from above; rid me, and deliver me out of great waters, from the hand of strange children;

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Stretch out Your hand from above;
Rescue me and deliver me out of great waters,
From the hand of foreigners,

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11 deliver me;
    rescue me(A) from the hands of foreigners(B)
whose mouths are full of lies,(C)
    whose right hands are deceitful.(D)

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11 Rid me, and deliver me from the hand of strange children, whose mouth speaketh vanity, and their right hand is a right hand of falsehood:

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11 Rescue me and deliver me from the hand of foreigners,
Whose mouth speaks lying words,
And whose right hand is a right hand of falsehood—

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    and like the heat of the desert.
You silence(A) the uproar of foreigners;(B)
    as heat is reduced by the shadow of a cloud,
    so the song of the ruthless(C) is stilled.

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Thou shalt bring down the noise of strangers, as the heat in a dry place; even the heat with the shadow of a cloud: the branch of the terrible ones shall be brought low.

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You will reduce the noise of aliens,
As heat in a dry place;
As heat in the shadow of a cloud,
The song of the terrible ones will be [a]diminished.

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Footnotes

  1. Isaiah 25:5 humbled