Prayer for Deliverance and Confidence in God

56 For the music director, according to The Silent Dove of Distant Lands.

Of David. A miktam.

When the Philistines seized him in Gath.a

1 Be gracious to me, O God, because humankind has trampled me;

fighting all the day he oppresses me.

2 My enemiesb trample all day,

because many are attacking me proudly.

3 ⌊When⌋c I fear, I trust you.

4 God, whose word I praise,

God I trust; I do not fear.

What can mere flesh do to me?

5 All day they twist my words;

all their thoughts are against me for evil.

6 They attack,d they hide, they watch my ⌊steps⌋,e

as they lie in wait for my life.

7 Because of iniquity will they escape?

In anger cast down the peoples, O God.

8 You have kept count of my wanderings.

Put my tears in your bottle;

are they not in your book?

9 Then my enemies will turn back ⌊when⌋f I call.g

This I know becauseh God is for me.

10 God, whose word I praise,

Yahweh, whose word I praise,

11 God I trust; I do not fear.

What can mere humankind do to me?

12 My vows to you, O God, are binding upon me.

I will pay thank offerings to you,

13 because you have delivered my soul from death.

Have you not kept my feet from stumbling,

that I may walk before God

in the light of the living?