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55.8 :I would lodge in the wilderness.
 * I would haste me to a shelter
 * From the stormy wind and tempest.'
 * Destroy, O Lord, and divide their tongue;
 * For I have seen violence and strife in the city.
 * Day and night they go about it upon the walls thereof;
 * Iniquity also and mischief are in the midst of it.
 * Wickedness is in the midst thereof;
 * Oppression and guile depart not from her broad place.
 * For it was not an enemy that taunted me,
 * Then I could have borne it;
 * Neither was it mine adversary that did magnify himself against me,
 * Then I would have hid myself from him.
 * But it was thou, a man mine equal,
 * My companion, and my familiar friend;
 * We took sweet counsel together,
 * In the house of God we walked with the throng.
 * May He incite death against them,
 * Let them go down alive into the nether-world;
 * For evil is in their dwelling, and within them.


 * As for me, I will call upon God;
 * And the shall save me.
 * Evening, and morning, and at noon, will I complain, and moan;
 * And He hath heard my voice.
 * He hath redeemed my soul in peace so that none came nigh me;
 * For they were many that strove with me.
 * God shall hear, and humble them,
 * Even He that is enthroned of old,
 * Such as have no changes,
 * And fear not God.
 * He hath put forth his hands against them that were at peace with him;
 * He hath profaned his covenant.
 * Smoother than cream were the speeches of his mouth,
 * But his heart was war;
 * His words were softer than oil,
 * Yet were they keen-edged swords.


 * Cast thy burden upon the, and He will sustain thee;
 * He will never suffer the righteous to be moved.
 * But Thou, O God, wilt bring them down into the nethermost pit;
 * Men of blood and deceit shall not live out half their days;
 * But as for me, I will trust in Thee.

For the Leader; upon Jonathelem-rehokim. [A Psalm] of David; Michtam; when the Philistines took him in Gath.


 * Be gracious unto me, O God, for man would swallow me up;
 * All the day he fighting oppresseth me.
 * They that lie in wait for me would swallow me up all the day;
 * For they are many that fight against me, O Most High,
 * In the day that I am afraid,
 * I will put my trust in Thee.
 * In God—I will praise His word—
 * In God do I trust, I will not be afraid;
 * What can flesh do unto me?


 * All the day they trouble mine affairs;
 * All their thoughts are against me for evil.
 * They gather themselves together, they hide themselves,