Psalms 56

A Call for God’s Protection

¹Be gracious to me, God, for man tramples me;

he fights and oppresses me all day long.

²My adversaries trample me all day,

for many arrogantly fight against me.

³When I am afraid,

I will trust in You.

⁴In God, whose word I praise,

in God I trust; I will not fear.

What can man do to me?

⁵They twist my words all day long;

all their thoughts against me are evil.

⁶They stir up strife, they lurk;[#Or They attack]

they watch my steps

while they wait to take my life.

⁷Will they escape in spite of such sin?

God, bring down the nations in wrath.

⁸You Yourself have recorded my wanderings.[#Or misery]

Put my tears in Your bottle.

Are they not in Your records?

⁹Then my enemies will retreat on the day when I call.[#Ps 9:3]

This I know: God is for me.

¹⁰In God, whose word I praise,

in the Lord , whose word I praise,

¹¹in God I trust; I will not fear.

What can man do to me?

¹²I am obligated by vows to You, God;[#Lit On me the vows]

I will make my thank offerings to You.

¹³For You delivered me from death,

even my feet from stumbling,

to walk before God in the light of life.