¹Give ear to my prayer, O God,[#Ps 61:1]

and do not hide Yourself from my supplication.

²Attend to me, and answer me;

I am restless in my complaint, and I murmur,

³because of the voice of the enemy,

because of the oppression of the wicked;

for they bring down trouble upon me,

and in anger they hate me.

⁴My heart is in anguish within me,

and the terrors of death have fallen upon me.

⁵Fear and trembling have come upon me,[#Job 21:6; Ps 119:120]

and horror has overwhelmed me.

⁶I said, “Oh, that I had wings like a dove!

I would fly away and be at rest.

⁷Indeed, I would wander far off,

and remain in the wilderness. Selah

⁸I would hasten my escape

from the windy storm and tempest.”

⁹Confuse, O Lord, divide their tongues,

for I have seen violence and strife in the city.

¹⁰Day and night they go around it on its walls;

iniquity and trouble are in its midst.

¹¹Destruction is in its midst;

oppression and deceit do not depart from its marketplace.

¹²For it is not an enemy who reproaches me;[#Ps 35:26; 41:9]

then I could bear it;

nor is it he who hates me who has exalted himself against me;

then I could hide from him.

¹³But it was you, a man, my equal,

my companion, and my acquaintance.

¹⁴We took sweet counsel together,

and walked in the house of God in the throng.

¹⁵Let death seize them,

and let them go down alive to Sheol,

for wickedness is in their dwellings and in their midst.

¹⁶As for me, I will call upon God,

and the Lord will save me.

¹⁷Evening and morning and at noon[#Ac 3:1; #Da 6:10]

will I reflect and groan,

and He will hear my voice.

¹⁸He has redeemed my soul in peace

from the battle that was against me,

for there were many against me.

¹⁹God will hear and afflict them,

even He who sits enthroned from of old. Selah

Because they do not change,

therefore they do not fear God.

²⁰He has put forth his hands against those who were at peace with him;[#Ps 7:4]

he has violated his covenant.

²¹His speech was smoother than butter,

but war was in his heart;

his words were softer than oil,

yet they were drawn swords.

²²Cast your burden on the Lord ,

and He will sustain you;

He will never permit

the righteous to be moved.

²³But You, O God, will cast the wicked down

to the pit of destruction;

bloodthirsty and deceitful men

shall not live out half their days.

But I will trust in You.