Psalm 56

Words: The Scottish Psalter

C. M.

To the chief Musician upon Jonath-elem-rechokim, 
Michtam of David, when the Philistines took him in Gath

   1  Show mercy, Lord, to me, for man
         would swallow me outright;
      He me oppresseth, while he doth
         against me daily fight.
   2  They daily would me swallow up
         that hate me spitefully;
      For they be many that do fight
         against me, O most High.
   3  When I'm afraid I'll trust in thee:
   4     In God I'll praise his word;
      I will not fear what flesh can do,
         my trust is in the Lord.
   5  Each day they wrest my words; their thoughts
         'gainst me are all for ill.
   6  They meet, they lurk, they mark my steps,
         waiting my soul to kill.
   7  But shall they by iniquity
         escape thy judgments so?
      O God, with indignation down
         do thou the people throw.
   8  My wand'rings all what they have been
         thou know'st, their number took;
      Into thy bottle put my tears:
         are they not in thy book?
   9  My foes shall, when I cry, turn back;
         I know't, God is for me.
  10  In God his word I'll praise; his word
         in God shall praised be.
  11  In God I trust; I will not fear
         what man can do to me.
  12  Thy vows upon me are, O God:
         I'll render praise to thee.
  13  Wilt thou not, who from death me saved,
         my feet from falls keep free,
      To walk before God in the light
         of those that living be?


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