Psalms 56 - New Revised Standard Version Updated Edition 2021(NRSVUE)

Psalm 56Trust in God under PersecutionTo the leader: according to The Dove on Far-off Terebinths. Of David. A Miktam, when the Philistines seized him in Gath.

1Be gracious to me, O God, for people trample on me;

all day long foes oppress me;

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in wrath cast down the peoples, O God!

8 God is for me.

10In God, whose word I praise,

in the Lord, whose word I praise,

11in God I trust; I am not afraid.

What can a mere mortal do to me?

12 Ps 50.14 My vows to you I must perform, O God;

I will render thank offerings to you.

13 Job 33.30; Ps 116.8 For you have delivered my soul from death

and my feet from falling,

so that I may walk before God

in the light of life.