1 Vir die musiekleier; met snaarinstrumente. n Onderwysing van Dawid.
2 o God, hoor my gebed en verberg U nie vir my smeking nie.
3 Luister na my en verhoor my; in my onrus dwaal ek rond en is verward,
4 weens die geroep van die vyand, weens die geraas van die goddelose; want hulle stort onreg op my af, en in toorn behandel hulle my as vyand.
5 My hart krimp inmekaar in my binneste, en verskrikkinge van die dood het op my geval.
6 Vrees en bewing kom oor my, en angs oordek my.
7 Toe het ek gesê: Ag, had ek maar vlerke soos 'n duif, dan sou ek wegvlieg en wegbly!
8 Kyk, ek sou ver wegvlug; ek sou vernag in die woestyn! Sela.
9 Gou sou ek vir my 'n skuilplek soek teen die onstuimige wind, teen die storm.
10 Verwar, Here, verdeel hulle spraak, want ek sien geweld en twis in die stad.
11 Dag en nag omring hulle dit op sy mure, en binnekant is onreg en moeite.
12 Wat onheil aanbring, is daarbinne, en verdrukking en bedrog wyk nie van sy markplein nie.
13 Want dit is geen vyand wat my smaad nie, anders sou ek dit dra; dit is nie my hater wat hom teen my groot maak nie, anders sou ek my vir hom wegsteek;
14 maar jy, 'n man soos ek, my vriend en my vertroude!
15 Ons wat innig met mekaar omgegaan het, in die huis van God gewandel het met die woelige skare.
16 Laat die dood hulle oorval, laat hulle lewendig in die doderyk neerdaal; want boosheid is in hulle woning, in hulle binneste.
17 Maar ek, ek roep God aan, en die HERE sal my verlos.
18 Saans en smôre ns en smiddags klaag ek en steun, en Hy hoor my stem.
19 Hy verlos my siel in vrede van die stryd teen my, want met menigtes is hulle teen my.
20 God sal hoor en hulle antwoord; ja, Hy wat op die troon sit van lankal af, Sela; omdat by hulle geen verbetering is en hulle God nie vrees nie.
21 Hy het sy hande uitgesteek teen die wat in vrede met hom geleef het; hy het sy verbond ontheilig.
22 Glad is die botterwoorde van sy mond, maar sy hart is oorlog; sy woorde is sagter as olie, maar hulle is ontblote swaarde.
23 Werp jou sorg op die HERE, en Hy sal jou onderhou; Hy sal nooit die regverdige laat wankel nie. [ (Psalms 55:24) Maar U, o God, sal hulle laat neerdaal in die put van vernietiging; manne van bloed en bedrog sal hulle dae nie tot op die helfte bring nie; maar ,k vertrou op U. ]
1 To the chief music-maker, on Neginoth. Maschil. Of David.
2 \55:1\Give hearing to my prayer, O God; and let not your ear be shut against my request.
3 \55:2\Give thought to me, and let my prayer be answered: I have been made low in sorrow;
4 \55:3\I am troubled because of the voice of the cruel ones, because of the loud cry of the evil-doers; for they put a weight of evil on me, and they are cruel in their hate for me.
5 \55:4\My heart is deeply wounded, and the fear of death has come on me.
6 \55:5\Fear and shaking have come over me, with deep fear I am covered.
7 \55:6\And I said, If only I had wings like a dove! for then I would go in flight from here and be at rest.
8 \55:7\I would go wandering far away, living in the waste land. (Selah.)
9 \55:8\I would quickly take cover from the driving storm and from the violent wind.
10 \55:9\Send destruction on them, O Lord, make a division of tongues among them: for I have seen fighting and violent acts in the town.
11 \55:10\By day and night they go round the town, on the walls; trouble and sorrow are in the heart of it.
12 \55:11\Evil is there; cruel rule and deceit are ever in the streets.
13 \55:12\For it was not my hater who said evil of me; that would have been no grief to me; it was not one outside the number of my friends who made himself strong against me, or I would have kept myself from him in a secret place;
14 \55:13\But it was you, my equal, my guide, my well-loved friend.
15 \55:14\We had loving talk together, and went to the house of God in company.
16 \55:15\Let the hand of death come on them suddenly, and let them go down living into the underworld; because evil is in their houses and in their hearts.
17 \55:16\As for me, I will make my prayer to God, and he will be my saviour.
18 \55:17\In the evening and in the morning and in the middle of the day I will make my prayer with sounds of grief; and my voice will come to his ears.
19 \55:18\He has taken my soul away from the attack which was made against me, and given it peace; for great numbers were against me.
20 \55:19\God will give thought to me; he who from early times is strong will send pain and trouble on them. (Selah.) Because they are unchanged, they have no fear of God.
21 \55:20\He has put out his hand against those who were at peace with him; he has not kept his agreement.
22 \55:21\The words of his mouth were smoother than butter, but war was in his heart; his words were softer than oil, but they were sharp swords.
23 \55:22\Put your cares on the Lord, and he will be your support; he will not let the upright man be moved.
24 \55:23\But you, O God, will send them down into the underworld; the cruel and the false will be cut off before half their days are ended; but I will have faith in you.