For the Chief Musician; on stringed instruments. Maschil of David.
Give ear to my prayer, O God;
And hide not thyself from my supplication.
Attend unto me, and answer me:
I am restless in my complaint, and moan,
Because of the voice of the enemy,
Because of the oppression of the wicked;
For they cast iniquity upon me,
And in anger they persecute me.
My heart is sore pained within me:
And the terrors of death are fallen upon me.
Fearfulness and trembling are come upon me,
And horror hath overwhelmed me.
And I said, Oh that I had wings like a dove!
Then would I fly away, and be at rest.
Lo, then would I wander far off,
I would lodge in the wilderness.
[Selah
I would {Or, hasten my escape}haste me to a shelter
From the stormy wind and tempest.
{Hebrew: Swallow up.}Destroy, O Lord, and divide their tongue;
For I have seen violence and strife in the city.
Day and night they go about it upon the walls thereof:
Iniquity also and mischief are in the midst of it.
Wickedness is in the midst thereof:
{Or, Fraud}Oppression and guile depart not from its streets.
For it was not an enemy that reproached me;
Then I could have borne it:
Neither was it he that hated me that did magnify himself against me;
Then I would have hid myself from him:
But it was thou, a man mine equal,
My companion, and my familiar friend.
We took sweet counsel together;
We walked in the house of God with the throng.
{Or, as otherwise read, Desolations be upon them!}Let death come suddenly upon them,
Let them go down alive into Sheol;
For wickedness is in their dwelling, in the {Or, their inward part}midst of them.
As for me, I will call upon God;
And Jehovah will save me.
Evening, and morning, and at noonday, will I complain, and moan;
And he will hear my voice.
He hath redeemed my soul in peace {Or, so that none came nigh me}from the battle that was against me;
For they were many that strove with me.
God will hear, and {Or, afflict}answer them,
Even he that abideth of old,
[Selah
The men who have no changes,
And who fear not God.
He hath put forth his hands against such as were at peace with him:
He hath profaned his covenant.
His mouth was smooth as butter,
But his heart was war:
His words were softer than oil,
Yet were they drawn swords.
Cast {Or, what he hath given thee}thy burden upon Jehovah, and he will sustain thee:
He will never suffer the righteous to be moved.
But thou, O God, wilt bring them down into the pit of destruction:
Bloodthirsty and deceitful men shall not live out half their days;
But I will trust in thee.
Querverweise zu Psalm 55,4 Ps 55,4
My soul also is sore troubled:And thou, O Jehovah, how long?
The cords of death compassed me,And the floods of {Hebrew: Belial.}ungodliness made me afraid.
Reproach hath broken my heart; and I am {Or, sore sick}full of heaviness:And I looked for some to take pity, but there was none;And for comforters, but I found none.
The cords of Sheol were round about me;The snares of death came upon me.
For my soul is full of troubles,And my life draweth nigh unto Sheol.
The cords of death compassed me,And the pains of Sheol {Or, found me}gat hold upon me:I found trouble and sorrow.
For my days consume away {Or, in smoke}like smoke,And my bones are burned {Or, as a hearth}as a firebrand.
My heart is smitten like grass, and withered;For I forget to eat my bread.
By reason of the voice of my groaningMy bones cleave to my flesh.
I said, In the {Or, tranquility}noontide of my days I shall go into the gates of Sheol:I am deprived of the residue of my years.
I said, I shall not see {Hebrew: Jah.}Jehovah, even {Hebrew: Jah.}Jehovah in the land of the living:I shall behold man no more {Or, when I am among them that have ceased to be}with the inhabitants of the world.
My dwelling is removed, and is carried away from me as a shepherd's tent:I have rolled up, like a weaver, my life; he will cut me off from the {Hebrew: thrum.}loom:From day even to night wilt thou make an end of me.
{Or, I thought until morning, As a lion, o will he break &c.}I quieted myself until morning; as a lion, so he breaketh all my bones:From day even to night wilt thou make an end of me.
And he took with him Peter and the two sons of Zebedee, and began to be sorrowful and sore troubled.
Who in the days of his flesh, having offered up prayers and supplications with strong crying and tears unto him that was able to save him {Or, out of}from death, and having been heard for his godly fear,
Then saith he unto them, My soul is exceeding sorrowful, even unto death: abide ye here, and watch with me.
And he taketh with him Peter and {Or, Jacob}James and John, and began to be greatly amazed, and sore troubled.
And he saith unto them, My soul is exceeding sorrowful even unto death: abide ye here, and watch.
Now is my soul troubled; and what shall I say? Father, save me from this {Or hour?}hour. But for this cause came I unto this hour.
For we would not have you ignorant, brethren, concerning our affliction which befell us in Asia, that we were weighed down exceedingly, beyond our power, insomuch that we despaired even of life:
{Or, but we ourselves}yea, we ourselves have had the {Greek: answer.}sentence of death within ourselves, that we should not trust in ourselves, but in God who raiseth the dead:
who delivered us out of so great a death, and will deliver: on whom we have {Some ancient authorities read set our hope; and still will he deliver us.}set our hope that he will also still deliver us;