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Psalms 55:1-17

1Give ear to my prayer, O God;And hide not thyself from my supplication.2Attend unto me, and answer me:I am restless in my complaint, and moan,3Because of the voice of the enemy,Because of the oppression of the wicked;For they cast iniquity upon me,And in anger they persecute me.4My heart is sore pained within me:And the terrors of death are fallen upon me.5Fearfulness and trembling are come upon me,And horror hath overwhelmed me.6And I said, Oh that I had wings like a dove!Then would I fly away, and be at rest.7Lo, then would I wander far off,I would lodge in the wilderness.[Selah8I would haste me to a shelterFrom the stormy wind and tempest.9Destroy, O Lord, and divide their tongue;For I have seen violence and strife in the city.10Day and night they go about it upon the walls thereof:Iniquity also and mischief are in the midst of it.11WickednessH205 is in the midstH7130 thereof:Oppression and guile depart not from its streets.12For it was not an enemy that reproached me;Then I could have borne it:Neither was it he that hated me that did magnify himself against me;Then I would have hid myself from him:13But it was thou, a man mine equal,My companion, and my familiar friend.14We took sweet counsel together;We walked in the house of God with the throng.15Let death comeH1980 suddenly upon them,Let them goH1980 down alive into Sheol;For wickedness is in their dwelling, in the midst of them.16As for me, I will call upon God;And Jehovah will save me.17Evening, and morning, and at noonday, will I complain, and moan;And he will hear my voice.

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