Psalms 56:1
Be merciful to me, O God, for man would swallow me up. Fighting all the day long he oppresses me.
Psalms 56:2
My enemies would swallow me up all the day long, for they are many who fight proudly against me.
Psalms 56:3
What time I am afraid, I will put my trust in thee.
Psalms 56:4
In God I will praise his word. In God I have put my trust. I will not be afraid. What can flesh do to me?
Psalms 56:5
All the day long they wrest my words. All their thoughts are against me for evil.
Psalms 56:6
They gather themselves together. They hide themselves. They mark my steps, even as they have waited for my soul.
Psalms 56:7
Shall they escape by iniquity? In anger cast down the peoples, O God.
Psalms 56:8
Thou number my wanderings. Put thou my tears into thy bottle. Are they not in thy book?
Psalms 56:9
Then shall my enemies turn back in the day that I call. This I know, that God is for me.
Psalms 56:10
In God I will praise his word. In Jehovah I will praise his word.
Psalms 56:11
In God I have put my trust. I will not be afraid. What can man do to me?
Psalms 56:12
Thy vows are upon me, O God. I will render thank offerings to thee.
Psalms 56:13
For thou have delivered my soul from death, and my feet from falling, that I may walk before God in the light of the living.