1 Dá ouvidos, ó Deus, à minha oração; E não te escondas da minha súplica.
2 Atende-me a mim, e responde-me; Agitado estou no meu queixar e ando perplexo,
3 Por causa da voz do inimigo, Em conseqüência da opressão do iníquo; Porque lançam sobre mim iniqüidade, E com ira me perseguem.
4 O meu coração confrange-se dentro de mim, E terrores de morte caem sobre mim.
5 Temor e tremor são vindos sobre mim, E acabrunha-me o horror.
6 Disse eu: Oxalá que eu tivesse asas, como pomba! Então voaria e descansaria.
7 Eis que eu fugiria para longe, Eu pousaria no deserto. (Selá)
8 Apressar-me-ia a um abrigo Do vento tempestuoso e da procela.
9 Destrói, Senhor, e divide as suas línguas, Porque vejo violência e contenda na cidade.
10 Andam dia e noite ao redor dela por cima dos seus muros, Também iniqüidade e malícia estão no meio dela.
11 Há destruição no meio dela, E das suas ruas não se apartam vexame e dolo.
12 Porquanto não é um inimigo que me ultraja, Tê-lo-ia então suportado; Nem é o que me odeia quem se exalta contra mim, Ter-me-ia então escondido dele;
13 Mas és tu, homem meu igual, Meu companheiro e meu amigo íntimo.
14 A sós nos entretínhamos em suaves práticas, E com a multidão andávamos na casa de Deus.
15 Apanhe-os de súbito a morte; Desçam vivos a Cheol; Porque há maldade na morada deles, no seu íntimo.
16 Quanto a mim, invocarei a Deus; E Jeová me salvará.
17 De tarde, de manhã e ao meio dia me queixarei e lamentarei; E ele ouvirá a minha voz.
18 Ele para paz remiu a minha alma, a fim de que se não aproximem de mim, Pois havia muitos que contendiam contra mim.
19 Deus ouvirá, e lhes responderá (Aquele que está entronizado desde a eternidade) (Selá) A eles para quem não há mudanças, E que não temem a Deus.
20 Tal homem estende as mãos sobre os que estavam em paz com ele; Profanou a sua aliança.
21 Macia era a sua boca como manteiga, Mas o seu coração respirava guerra. As suas palavras eram mais brandas que azeite, Contudo eram elas espadas desembainhadas.
22 Lança sobre Jeová a tua carga, e ele te sustentará; Jamais permitirá que o justo seja abalado.
23 Tu, porém, ó Deus, os farás descer ao poço da perdição: Homens sanguinários e fraudulentos não chegarão à metade dos seus dias, Mas quanto a mim, eu confiarei em ti. conceda quando os filisteus o agarraram em Gate
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.