Psalms 55:11-23

¹¹And usury and guile or treachery failed not; from the streets thereof.

¹²For if mine enemy had cursed me; soothly I had suffered. And if he, that hated me, had spoken great things on me; in hap I had hid me from him.

¹³But thou art a man of one will; my leader, and my known.

¹⁴Which tookest together sweet meats and fellowship with me; we went with consent in the house of God.

¹⁵Death come on them; and go they down quick into hell. For way-wardnesses be in the dwelling places of them; in the midst of them.

¹⁶But I cried to thee, Lord; and the Lord saved me.

¹⁷In the eventide, and the morrow-tide, and in midday, I shall tell, and show; and he shall hear my voice.

¹⁸He shall again-buy my soul in peace from them, that nigh to me; for among many they were with me.

¹⁹God shall hear; and he that is before the worlds shall make them low. For changing is not to them, and they dreaded not God;

²⁰he holdeth forth his hand in yielding. They defouled his testament,

²¹the cheers thereof were parted from ire; and his heart nighed. The words thereof were softer than oil; and they be darts.

²²Cast thy care, or thought, or thy busyness, on the Lord, and he shall fully nourish thee; and he shall not give without end fluttering to a just or rightwise man.

²³But thou, God, shalt lead them forth; into the pit of death. Men-quellers and beguilers shall not have half their days; but, Lord, I shall hope in thee.