Psalm 56-60

New King James Version

³ Whenever I am afraid,
I will trust in You.
⁴ In God (I will praise His word),
In God I have put my trust;
^(D)I will not fear.
What can flesh do to me?

⁵ All day they twist my words;
All their thoughts are against me for evil.
⁶ They gather together,
They hide, they mark my steps,
When they lie in wait for my life.
⁷ Shall they escape by iniquity?
In anger cast down the peoples, O God!

⁸ You number my wanderings;
Put my tears into Your bottle;
^(E)Are they not in Your book?
⁹ When I cry out to You,
Then my enemies will turn back;
This I know, because ^(F)God is for me.
¹⁰ In God (I will praise His word),
In the Lord (I will praise His word),
¹¹ In God I have put my trust;
I will not be afraid.
What can man do to me?

¹² Vows made to You are binding upon me, O God;
I will render praises to You,
^13 (G)For You have delivered my soul from death.
Have You not kept my feet from falling,
That I may walk before God
In the ^(H)light of the living?

² I will cry out to God Most High,
To God ^(M)who performs all things for me.
^3 (N)He shall send from heaven and save me;
He reproaches the one who ^[c]would swallow me up. Selah
God ^(O)shall send forth His mercy and His truth.

⁴ My soul is among lions;
I lie among the sons of men
Who are set on fire,
^(P)Whose teeth are spears and arrows,
And their tongue a sharp sword.
^5 (Q)Be exalted, O God, above the heavens;
Let Your glory be above all the earth.

^6 (R)They have prepared a net for my steps;
My soul is bowed down;
They have dug a pit before me;
Into the midst of it they themselves have fallen. Selah

^7 (S)My heart is steadfast, O God, my heart is steadfast;
I will sing and give praise.
⁸ Awake, ^(T)my glory!
Awake, lute and harp!
I will awaken the dawn.

^9 (U)I will praise You, O Lord, among the peoples;
I will sing to You among the ^[d]nations.
^10 (V)For Your mercy reaches unto the heavens,
And Your truth unto the clouds.

^11 (W)Be exalted, O God, above the heavens;
Let Your glory be above all the earth.

^3 (X)The wicked are estranged from the womb;
They go astray as soon as they are born, speaking lies.
^4 (Y)Their poison is like the poison of a serpent;
They are like the deaf cobra that stops its ear,
⁵ Which will not ^(Z)heed the voice of charmers,
Charming ever so skillfully.

^6 (AA)Break^[f] their teeth in their mouth, O God!
Break out the fangs of the young lions, O Lord!
^7 (AB)Let them flow away as waters which run continually;
When he bends his bow,
Let his arrows be as if cut in pieces.
⁸ Let them be like a snail which melts away as it goes,
^(AC)Like a stillborn child of a woman, that they may not see the sun.

⁹ Before your ^(AD)pots can feel the burning thorns,
He shall take them away ^(AE)as with a whirlwind,
As in His living and burning wrath.
¹⁰ The righteous shall rejoice when he sees the ^(AF)vengeance;
^(AG)He shall wash his feet in the blood of the wicked,
^11 (AH)So that men will say,
“Surely there is a reward for the righteous;
Surely He is God who ^(AI)judges in the earth.”

³ For look, they lie in wait for my life;
^(AK)The mighty gather against me,
Not for my transgression nor for my sin, O Lord.
⁴ They run and prepare themselves through no fault of mine.

^(AL)Awake to help me, and behold!
⁵ You therefore, O Lord God of hosts, the God of Israel,
Awake to punish all the ^[i]nations;
Do not be merciful to any wicked transgressors. Selah

^6 (AM)At evening they return,
They growl like a dog,
And go all around the city.
⁷ Indeed, they belch with their mouth;
^(AN)Swords are in their lips;
For they say, ^(AO)“Who hears?”

⁸ But ^(AP)You, O Lord, shall laugh at them;
You shall have all the ^[j]nations in derision.
⁹ I will wait for You, O You ^[k]his Strength;
^(AQ)For God is my ^[l]defense.
^10 [m]My God of mercy shall ^(AR)come to meet me;
God shall let ^(AS)me see my desire on my enemies.

¹¹ Do not slay them, lest my people forget;
Scatter them by Your power,
And bring them down,
O Lord our shield.
^12 (AT)For the sin of their mouth and the words of their lips,
Let them even be taken in their pride,
And for the cursing and lying which they speak.
^13 (AU)Consume them in wrath, consume them,
That they may not be;
And ^(AV)let them know that God rules in Jacob
To the ends of the earth. Selah

¹⁴ And ^(AW)at evening they return,
They growl like a dog,
And go all around the city.
¹⁵ They ^(AX)wander up and down for food,
And ^[n]howl if they are not satisfied.

¹⁶ But I will sing of Your power;
Yes, I will sing aloud of Your mercy in the morning;
For You have been my defense
And refuge in the day of my trouble.
¹⁷ To You, ^(AY)O my Strength, I will sing praises;
For God is my defense,
My God of mercy.

^4 (BG)You have given a banner to those who fear You,
That it may be displayed because of the truth. Selah
^5 (BH)That Your beloved may be delivered,
Save with Your right hand, and hear me.

⁶ God has ^(BI)spoken in His holiness:
“I will rejoice;
I will ^(BJ)divide ^(BK)Shechem
And measure out ^(BL)the Valley of Succoth.
⁷ Gilead is Mine, and Manasseh is Mine;
^(BM)Ephraim also is the ^[q]helmet for My head;
^(BN)Judah is My lawgiver.
^8 (BO)Moab is My washpot;
^(BP)Over Edom I will cast My shoe;
^(BQ)Philistia, shout in triumph because of Me.”

⁹ Who will bring me to the strong city?
Who will lead me to Edom?
¹⁰ Is it not You, O God, ^(BR)who cast us off?
And You, O God, who did ^(BS)not go out with our armies?
¹¹ Give us help from trouble,
^(BT)For the help of man is useless.
¹² Through God ^(BU)we will do valiantly,
For it is He who shall tread down our enemies.