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Psalms 55
Cast Your Burden On The Lord
To The Chief Musician, On Neginoth, Maskil A Psalm Of David

Audio Reading • Kings James Version

Psalms 55
King James Version

1 Give ear to my prayer, O God;
and hide not thyself from my supplication.​
2 Attend unto me, and hear me:
I mourn in my complaint, and make a noise;​
3 Because of the voice of the enemy,
because of the oppression of the wicked:
for they cast iniquity upon me,
and in wrath they hate me.​

4 My heart is sore pained within me:
and the terrors of death are fallen upon me.​
5 Fearfulness and trembling are come upon me,
and horror hath overwhelmed me.​
6 And I said, Oh that I had wings like a dove!
for then would I fly away, and be at rest.​
7 Lo, then would I wander far off,
and remain in the wilderness. Selah.​
8 I would hasten my escape
from the windy storm and tempest.​

9 Destroy, O Lord, and divide their tongues:
for I have seen violence and strife in the city.​
10 Day and night they go about it upon the walls thereof:
mischief also and sorrow are in the midst of it.​
11 Wickedness is in the midst thereof:
deceit and guile depart not from her streets.​

12 For it was not an enemy that reproached me;
then I could have borne it:
neither was it he that hated me that did magnify himself against me;
then I would have hid myself from him:​
13 But it was thou, a man mine equal,
my guide, and mine acquaintance.​
14 We took sweet counsel together,
and walked unto the house of God in company.​

15 Let death seize upon them,
and let them go down quick into hell:
for wickedness is in their dwellings, and among them.​

16 As for me, I will call upon God;
and the Lord shall save me.​
17 Evening, and morning, and at noon,
will I pray, and cry aloud:
and he shall hear my voice.​
18 He hath delivered my soul in peace from the battle that was against me:
for there were many with me.​
19 God shall hear, and afflict them,
even he that abideth of old. Selah.
Because they have no changes,
therefore they fear not God.​

20 He hath put forth his hands against such as be at peace with him:
he hath broken his covenant.​
21 The words of his mouth were smoother than butter,
but war was in his heart:
his words were softer than oil,
yet were they drawn swords.​

22 Cast thy burden upon the Lord,
and he shall sustain thee:
he shall never suffer the righteous to be moved.​
23 But thou, O God, shalt bring them down into the pit of destruction:
bloody and deceitful men shall not live out half their days;
but I will trust in thee.​



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