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Psalm 56 · Book Two · David

For the choirmaster. To the tune of “A Dove on Distant Oaks.” A Miktam of David, when the Philistines seized him in Gath.

The Hebrew title · Berean Standard Bible

Miktam · For the choirmaster

About this psalm

A Miktam from the time the Philistines took hold of David in Gath. He is afraid and says so, and then says the sentence that answers it: What time I am afraid, I will trust in thee. Its tenderest line is a picture of God keeping count — put thou my tears into thy bottle: are they not in thy book?

Read it when you are frightened and want it noticed.

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¹Be merciful unto me, O God:for man would swallow me up;he fighting daily oppresseth me.²Mine enemies would daily swallow me up:for they be many that fight against me, O thou most High.³What time I am afraid, I will trust in thee.⁴In God I will praise his word, in God I have put my trust;I will not fear what flesh can do unto me.⁵Every day they wrest my words:all their thoughts are against me for evil.⁶They gather themselves together, they hide themselves, they mark my steps, when they wait for my soul.⁷Shall they escape by iniquity? in thine anger cast down the people, O God.⁸Thou tellest my wanderings:put thou my tears into thy bottle:are they not in thy book?⁹When I cry unto thee, then shall mine enemies turn back:this I know;for God is for me.¹⁰In God will I praise his word:in the LORD will I praise his word.¹¹In God have I put my trust:I will not be afraid what man can do unto me.¹²Thy vows are upon me, O God:I will render praises unto thee.¹³For thou hast delivered my soul from death:wilt not thou deliver my feet from falling, that I may walk before God in the light of the living?

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