Tehillim 55

²Give ear to my tefillah, O Elohim;

and veil not Thyself from my techinnah (supplication) .

³Attend unto me, and hear me;

I wander restlessly in my si'ach (anxiety) , and aloud I groan;

⁴Because of the voice of the oyev (enemy) ,

because of the oppression of the rasha (evildoer) ;

for they cast aven (iniquity) upon me,

and in af (wrath, anger) cherish their malice against me.

⁵My lev writhes within me;

and the terrors of mavet are fallen upon me.

⁶Yirah va'ra'ad (fear and trembling) are come upon me,

and pallatzut (horror, shuddering) overwhelmed me.

⁷And I said, Oh that I had wings like a yonah!

For then would I fly away and be at rest.

⁸Hinei, then would I flee far off

and lodge in the midbar.

Selah

⁹I would hasten to my place of shelter

from the ruach so'ah (wind of the tempest) and storm.

¹⁰Destroy, Adonoi, and confuse their leshon;

for I see chamas (violence) and riv (strife) in the Ir (city) .

¹¹Yomam and lailah they go about her upon the chomot thereof;[#55:11 Yerushalayim]

aven also and amal are in the midst of her.

¹²Ruin is in the midst thereof;

oppression and mirmah (guile, fraud, deceit) depart not from her rechov.

¹³For it was not an oyev (enemy) that reproached me;

then I could bear it;

neither was it he that had sinah (hatred) for me that did exalt himself against me;

then I could have hid myself from him;

¹⁴But it was thou, an enosh (a man) equally,[#55:14 valued with myself]

my aluf (intimate, friend) , and me'yuda'i (deep acquaintance, familiar friend) .

¹⁵Together we took sweet sod (intimate conversation, fellowship, counsel) ,

and walked unto the Beis Elohim with the throng.

¹⁶Let mavet seize upon them,

and let them go down chayyim into Sheol;

for ra'ot (evils) are in their dwellings, and among them.

¹⁷As for me, I will call upon Elohim;

and Hashem shall save me.

¹⁸Erev, and boker, and at tzohorayim (noon) ,

will I pray, and cry aloud;

and He shall hear my kol (voice) .

¹⁹He hath redeemed my nefesh in shalom

from the battle that was against me;

for there were rabbim against me.

²⁰El (G-d) shall hear, and afflict them,

even He that abideth kedem (of old, forever) .

Selah

Because they do not change,

therefore they fear not Elohim.

²¹He hath laid his hands on such[#55:21 the faithless friend of verse 13-14]

as are at shalom with him;

he hath broken his Brit.

²²The words of his mouth were smoother than butter,

but war was in his lev;

his devarim were softer than shemen,

yet they were drawn swords.

²³Cast thy burden upon Hashem ,

and He shall sustain thee;

He shall never suffer the tzaddik to be moved.

²⁴But Thou, O Elohim, shalt bring them down into the pit of shachat;

anshei damim umirmah (bloody and deceitful men)

shall not live out half their yamim;

but I will trust in Thee.