Psalms 55 - New Revised Standard Version Updated Edition 2021(NRSVUE)

Psalm 55Complaint about a Friend’s TreacheryTo the leader: with stringed instruments. A Maskil of David.

1 trouble upon me,

and in anger they bear a grudge against me.

4

8

will hear and will humble them,

because they do not change

and do not fear God.

20

21 on the Lord,

and he will sustain you;

he will never permit

the righteous to be moved.

23 Job 15.32; Ps 5.6; 73.18 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.