ak
the people in pieces. O God,

For nothing shalt thou save them... That is, since they lie in wait to
ruin my soul, thou shalt for no consideration favour or assist them, but
execute thy justice upon them.

55:9. I have declared to thee my life: thou hast set me tears in thy
sight, As also in thy promise.

55:10. Then shall my enemies be turned back. In what day soever I shall
call upon thee, behold I know thou art my God.

55:11. In God will I praise the word, in the Lord will I praise his
speech. In God have I hoped, I will not fear what man can do to me.

55:12. In me, O God, are vows to thee, which I will lpay, praises to
thee:

55:13. Because thou hast delivered my soul from death, my feet from
falling: that I may please in the sight of God, in the light of the
living.

Psalms Chapter 56

Miserere mei, Deus. The prophet prays in his affliction, and praises God
for his delivery.

56:1. Unto the end, destroy not, for David, for an inscription of a
title, when he fled from Saul into the cave. [1 Kings 24.]

Destroy not... Suffer me not to be destroyed.

56:2. Have mercy on me, O God, have mercy on me: for my soul trusteth in
thee. And in the shadow of thy wings will I hope, until iniquity pass
away.

56:3. I will cry to God the most high; to God who hath done good to me.

56:4. He hath sent from heaven and delivered me: he hath made them a
reproach that trod upon me. God hath sent his mercy and his truth,

56:5. And he hath delivered my soul from the midst of the young lions. I
slept troubled. The sons ofmen, whose teeth are weapons and arrows, and
their tongue a sharp sword.

56:6. Be thou exalted, O God, above the heavens, and thy glory above all
the earth.

56:7. They prepared a snare for my feet; and they bowed down my soul.
They dug a pit before my face, and they are fallen into it.

56:8. My heart is ready, O God, my heart is ready: I will sing, and
rehearse a psalm.

56:9. Arise, O my glory, arise psaltery and harp: I will arise early.

56:10. I will give praise to thee, O Lord, among the people: I will sing
a psalm to thee among the nations.

56:11. For thy mercy is magnified even to the heavens: and thy truth
unto the clouds.

56:12. Be thou exalted, O God, above the heavens: and thy glory above
all the earth.

Psalms Chapter 57

Si vere utique.

David reproveth the wicked, and foretelleth their punishment.

57:1. Unto the end, destroy not, for David, for an inscription of