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55:1  Pay attention to my prayer, God, and do not hide yourself from my appeal.
55:2  Pay attention to me and answer me. I moan and groan in my thoughts,
55:3  because of the voice of the enemy, and because of the oppression of the wicked. They bring down evil upon me, and in anger they hate me.
55:4  My heart is trembling within me, and the terrors of death have assaulted me.
55:5  Fear and trembling have overwhelmed me, and horror has covered me.
55:6  I said, "O, who will give me the wings of a dove, so that I could fly away and live somewhere else?
55:7  Look, I want to flee far away; I want to settle down in the wilderness. Interlude
55:8  I want to deliver myself quickly from this windstorm and tempest."
55:9  Confound them, Lord, and confuse their speech, because I have seen violence and strife in the city.
55:10  Day and night they prowl around its walls; evil and iniquity are within it.
55:11  Wickedness is at the center of it; fraud and lies never leave its streets.
55:12  For it is not an enemy who insults me— I could have handled that— nor is it someone who hates me and who now arises against me— I could have hidden myself from him—
55:13  but it is you— a man whom I treated as my equal— my personal confidant, my close friend!
55:14  We had good fellowship together; and we even walked together in the house of God!
55:15  Let death seize them! May they be plunged alive into the afterlife, for wicked things are in their homes and among them.
55:16  I call upon God, and the LORD will deliver me.
55:17  Morning, noon, and night, I mulled over these things and cried out in my distress, and he heard my voice.
55:18  He calmly ransomed my soul from the war waged against me, for there was a vast crowd who stood against me.
55:19  God, who is enthroned from long ago, will hear me and humble them. Interlude Because they do not repent, they do not fear God.
55:20  Each of my friends raises his hand against his allies; each of my friends breaks his word.
55:21  His mouth is as smooth as butter, while war is in his heart. His words were as smooth as olive oil, while his sword is drawn.
55:22  Cast on the LORD whatever he sends your way, and he will sustain you. He will never allow the righteous to be shaken.
55:23  But you, God, bring them down to the Pit of corruption; bloodthirsty and deceitful people will not live out half their days. But I put my full confidence in you.