Cast Your Burden on the Lord
To the choirmaster: with Ps. 4, titlestringed instruments. A Maskil55:1 Probably a musical or liturgical term of David.
1 Ps. 54:2;61:1;86:6Give ear to my prayer, O God,
and hide not yourself from my plea for mercy!
2 Attend to me, and answer me;
I am restless ver. 17;Ps. 64:1in my complaint and I [Isa. 38:14;59:11]moan,
3 because of the noise of the enemy,
because of the oppression of the wicked.
For they [2 Sam. 16:7,8]drop trouble upon me,
and in anger they bear a grudge against me.
4 My heart is in anguish within me;
Ps. 116:3the terrors of death have fallen upon me.
5 Fear and trembling come upon me,
and Job 21:6;Isa. 21:4;Ezek. 7:18horror Ps. 78:53overwhelms me.
6 And I say, "Oh, that I had wings like a dove!
I would fly away and be at rest;
7 [Jer. 9:2]yes, I would wander far away;
I would lodge in the wilderness; Selah
8 I would hurry to find a shelter
from Ps. 83:15the raging wind and tempest."
9 Destroy, O Lord, [Gen. 11:9] divide their tongues;
for I see Jer. 6:7violence and strife in the city.
10 Day and night they go around it
on its walls,
and Ps. 5:9iniquity and trouble are within it;
11 ruin is in its midst;
[Ps. 10:7]oppression and fraud
do not depart from its marketplace.
12 For it is not an enemy who taunts me—
then I could bear it;
it is not an adversary who Job 19:5deals insolently with me—
then I could hide from him.
13 [2 Sam. 15:12;16:23]; See Ps. 41:9But it is you, a man, my equal,
my companion, my familiar friend.
14 We used to take sweet counsel together;
within God’s house we walked in Ps. 42:4the throng.
15 Let death steal over them;
let them go down to Sheol Num. 16:30,33;Prov. 1:12;[Ps. 124:3]alive;
for evil is in their dwelling place and in their heart.
16 But I call to God,
and the Lord will save me.
17 Ps. 141:2;Acts 3:1;10:3,30Evening and Ps. 5:3;88:13;92:2morning and at Acts 10:9;[Dan. 6:10] noon
I ver. 2utter my complaint and moan,
and he hears my voice.
18 He redeems my soul in safety
from the battle that I wage,
for [Ps. 56:2]many are arrayed against me.
19 God will give ear and humble them,
he who is Deut. 33:27enthroned from of old, Selah
because they do not Job 10:17;See Job 21:7-15change
and do not fear God.
20 My companion55:20 Hebrew HeActs 12:1stretched out his hand against his friends;
he violated his covenant.
21 His See Ps. 28:3speech was Prov. 5:3,4smooth as butter,
yet war was in his heart;
his words were softer than oil,
yet they were See Ps. 57:4drawn swords.
22 See Ps. 37:5Cast your burden on the Lord,
and he will sustain you;
Ps. 10:6he will never permit
the righteous to be moved.
23 But you, O God, ver. 15;Ps. 56:7;59:11will cast them down
into Ps. 69:15;94:13the pit of destruction;
men of Ps. 5:6blood and treachery
shall not Prov. 10:27;See Job 15:32live out half their days.
But I will See Ps. 11:1trust in you.