y strength.

53:4. O God, hear my lprayer: give ear to the words of my mouth.

53:5. For strangers have rrisen up against me; and the mighty have
sought after my soul: and they have not set God before their eyes.

53:6. For behold God is my helper: and the Lord is the protector of my
soul.

53:7. Turn back the evils upon my enemies; and cut them off in thy
truth.

53:8. I will freely sacrifice to thee, and will give praise, O God, to
thy name: because it is good:

53:9. For thou hast delivered me out of all trouble: and my eye hath
looked down upon my enemies.

Psalms Chapter 54

Exaudi, Deus.

A prayer of a just man under persecution from the wicked. It agrees to
Christ persecuted by the Jews, and betrayed by Judas.

54:1. Unto the end, in verses, understanding for David.

54:2. Hear, O God, my prayer, and despise not lmy supplication:

54:3. Be attentive to me and hear me. I am grieved in my exercise; and
am troubled,

54:4. At the voice of the enemy, and at the tribulation of the sinner.
For they have cast iniquities upon me: and in wrath they were
troublesome to me.

54:5. My heart is troubled within me: and the fear of death is fallen
upon me.

54:6. Fear and trembling are come upon me: and darkness hath covered me.

54:7. And I said: Who will give me wings like a dove, and I will fly and
be at rest?

54:8. Lo, I have gone far off flying away; and I abode in the
wilderness.

54:9. I waited for him that hath saved me from pusillanimity of spirit,
and a storm.

54:10. Cast down, O Lord, and divide their tongues; for I have seen
iniquity and contradiction in the city.

54:11. Day and night shall iniquity surround it upon its walls: and in
the midst thereof arelabour,

54:12. And injustice. And usury and deceit have not departed from its
streets.

54:13. For if my enemy had reviled me, I would verily have borne with
it. And if he that hated me had spoken great things against me, I would
perhaps have hidden my self from him.

54:14. But thou a man of one mind, my guide, and my familiar,

54:15. Who didst take sweetmeats together with me: in the house of God
we walked with consent.

54:16. Let death come upon them, and let them go down alive into hell.
For there is wickedness in their dwellings: in the midst of them.

Let death, etc... This, and such like imprecations which occur in the
psalms, are delivered prophetically; that is, by way of foretelling the
punishments which shall fal