Psalm 56

¹Be merciful unto me, O God; for man would swallow me up: all the day long he fighting oppresseth me.

²Mine enemies would swallow me up all the day long: for they be many that fight proudly against me.

³What time I am afraid, I will put my trust in thee.

⁴In God I will praise his word: in God have I put my trust, I will not be afraid; what can flesh do unto me?

⁵All the day long they wrest my words: all their thoughts are against me for evil.

⁶They gather themselves together, they hide themselves, they mark my steps, even as they have waited for my soul.

⁷Shall they escape by iniquity? in anger cast down the peoples, O God.

⁸Thou tellest my wanderings: put thou my tears into thy bottle; are they not in thy book?

⁹Then shall mine enemies turn back in the day that I call: this I know, that God is for me.

¹⁰In God will I praise hisword: in the LORD will I praise hisword.

¹¹In God have I put my trust, I will not be afraid; what can man do unto me?

¹²Thy vows are upon me, O God: I will render thank offerings unto thee.

¹³For thou hast delivered my soul from death: hast thounot deliveredmy feet from falling? that I may walk before God in the light of the living.