Psalms 55:1-14

¹To him that excelleth on Neginoth. A Psalme of David to give instruction. Heare my prayer, O God, and hide not thy selfe from my supplication.

²Hearken vnto me, and answere me: I mourne in my prayer, and make a noyse,

³For the voyce of the enemie, and for the vexation of ye wicked, because they haue brought iniquitie vpon me, and furiously hate me.

⁴Mine heart trembleth within mee, and the terrours of death are fallen vpon me.

⁵Feare and trembling are come vpon mee, and an horrible feare hath couered me.

⁶And I said, Oh that I had wings like a doue: then would I flie away and rest.

⁷Beholde, I woulde take my flight farre off, and lodge in the wildernes. Selah.

⁸Hee would make haste for my deliuerance from the stormie winde and tempest.

⁹Destroy, O Lord, and deuide their tongues: for I haue seene crueltie and strife in the citie.

¹⁰Day and night they goe about it vpon the walles thereof: both iniquitie and mischiefe are in the middes of it.

¹¹Wickednes is in the middes thereof: deceit and guile depart not from her streetes.

¹²Surely mine enemie did not defame mee: for I could haue borne it: neither did mine aduersarie exalt himselfe against mee: for I would haue hid me from him.

¹³But it was thou, O man, euen my companion, my guide and my familiar:

¹⁴Which delited in consulting together, and went into the House of God as companions.