Psalms 56

¹For the music director, according to The Silent Dove of Distant Lands. Of David. A miktam. When the Philistines seized him in Gath. Be gracious to me, O God, because humankind has trampled me; fighting all the day he oppresses me. ²My enemies trample all day, because many are attacking me proudly. ³⌞When⌟ I fear, I trust you. ⁴God, whose word I praise, God I trust; I do not fear. What can mere flesh do to me? ⁵All day they twist my words; all their thoughts are against me for evil. ⁶They attack, they hide, they watch my ⌞steps⌟, as they lie in wait for my life. ⁷Because of iniquity will they escape? In anger cast down the peoples, O God. ⁸You have kept count of my wonderings. Put my tears in your bottle; are they not in your book? ⁹Then my enemies will turn back ⌞when⌟ I call. This I know because God is for me. ¹⁰God, whose word I praise, Yahweh, whose word I praise, ¹¹God I trust; I do not fear. What can mere humankind do to me? ¹²My vows to you, O God, are binding upon me. I will pay thank offerings to you, ¹³because you have delivered my soul from death. Have you not kept my feet from stumbling, that I may walk before God in the light of the living?