Pleading for Help and Grateful Trust in God.

For the music director; according to [a]Jonath elem rehokim. A [b]Mikhtam of David, [c]when the Philistines seized him in Gath.

56 Be gracious to me, God, for a man has [d](A)trampled upon me;
[e]Fighting all day long he (B)oppresses me.

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Footnotes

  1. Psalm 56 Title Or The silent dove of those who are far off; or The dove of the distant terebinths
  2. Psalm 56 Title Possibly Epigrammatic Poem; or Atonement Psalm
  3. Psalm 56 Title 1 Sam 21:10, 11
  4. Psalm 56:1 Or snapped at
  5. Psalm 56:1 Or A fighting man

Then they would have (A)swallowed us alive,
When their (B)anger was kindled against us;

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12 Let’s (A)swallow them alive like Sheol,
Even whole, like those who (B)go down to the pit;

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16 All (A)your enemies
Have opened their mouths wide against you;
They [a]hiss and (B)gnash their teeth.
They say, “We have (C)engulfed her!
This certainly is the (D)day which we awaited;
We have reached it, we have seen it!”

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Footnotes

  1. Lamentations 2:16 Or whistle

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