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55:1  Turn your ear to my prayer, O God. Do not hide from my plea for mercy.
55:2  Pay attention to me and answer me. I am troubled in my thoughts and I groan
55:3  because of talk from the enemy, because of oppression from the wicked, because they dump evil on me, and in anger they hold a grudge against me.
55:4  My heart is in anguish within me. The terrors of death fall on me.
55:5  Fear and trembling come over me. Horror covers me.
55:6  So I say, “I wish I had wings like a dove! I would fly away and find a place to rest.
55:7  Yes, I would flee far away. Interlude I would stay in the wilderness.
55:8  I would hurry to find shelter, far from the violent wind, far from the storm.”
55:9  Swallow them up, O Lord. Confuse their speech, for I see violence and contention in the city.
55:10  Day and night they sneak around on its walls. Evil and trouble are in the city.
55:11  Destruction lurks within it. Treachery and deceit never leave its streets.
55:12  For it is not an enemy who insults me— I could bear that. It is not someone who hated me who rises up against me— I could hide from him.
55:13  But it is you, a man who served with me, my colleague and my associate,
55:14  with whom I shared pleasant discussions as we walked with the excited crowd at God’s house.
55:15  Let deadly destruction come on them. Let them go down to the grave alive, because evil is at home in their hearts.
55:16  As for me, I call to God, and the Lord saves me.
55:17  Evening, morning, and noon I cry out and I sigh, and he hears my voice.
55:18  In peace he redeems my life from the assault against me, even when many are against me.
55:19  God will hear, and he will punish them— Interlude yes, he is seated on his throne from eternity! —because they never change, and they do not fear God.
55:20  The traitor reaches out his hand against those at peace with him. He breaks his agreement.
55:21  His flattery is as smooth as butter, yet war is in his heart. His words are more soothing than oil, yet they are drawn daggers.
55:22  Place your burden on the Lord, and he will support you. He will never allow the righteous to fall.
55:23  But you, O God, will bring them down into the pit of destruction. Bloody and deceitful men will not live half their days. But as for me, I will trust in you.