Psalm 55, NEW REVISED STANDARD VERSION
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Give ear to my prayer, O God; do not hide yourself from my supplication.
 

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Attend to me, and answer me; I am troubled in my complaint.  I am distraught
 

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by the noise of the enemy, because of the clamor of the wicked.  For they bring trouble upon me, and in anger they cherish enmity against me.
 

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My heart is in anguish within me, the terrors of death have fallen upon me.
 

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Fear and trembling come upon me, and horror overwhelms me.

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And I say, “O that I had wings like a dove!  I would fly away and be at rest;
 

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truly, I would flee far away; I would lodge in the wilderness; (Selah)
 

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I would hurry to find a shelter for myself from the raging wind and tempest.”
 

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Confuse, O Lord, confound their speech; for I see violence and strife in the city.
 

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Day and night they go around it on its walls, and iniquity and trouble are within it;
 

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ruin is in its midst; oppression and fraud do not depart from its marketplace.
 

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It is not enemies who taunt me — I could bear that; it is not adversaries who deal insolently with me — I could hide from them.
 

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But it is you, my equal, my companion, my familiar friend,

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with whom I kept pleasant company; we walked in the house of God with the throng.
 

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Let death come upon them; let them go down alive to Sheol; for evil is in their homes and in their hearts.
 

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But I call upon God, and the Lord will save me.

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Evening and morning and at noon I utter my complaint and moan, and he will hear my voice.
 

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He will redeem me unharmed from the battle that I wage, for many are arrayed against me.
 

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God, who is enthroned from of old, (Selah) will hear, and will humble them — because they do not change, and do not fear God.
 

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My companion laid hands on a friend and violated a covenant with me
 

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with speech smoother than butter, but with a heart set on war; with words that were softer than oil, but in fact were drawn swords.
 

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Cast your burden on the Lord, and he will sustain you; he will never permit the righteous to be moved.
 

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But you, O God, will cast them down into the lowest pit; the bloodthirsty and treacherous shall not live out half their days. But I will trust in you.