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Psalm 55 Good News Translation (GNT)

55 Hear my prayer, O God;
    don’t turn away from my plea!
² Listen to me and answer me;
    I am worn out by my worries.
³ I am terrified by the threats of my enemies,
    crushed by the oppression of the wicked.
They bring trouble on me;
    they are angry with me and hate me.

⁴ I am terrified,
    and the terrors of death crush me.
⁵ I am gripped by fear and trembling;
    I am overcome with horror.
⁶ I wish I had wings like a dove.
    I would fly away and find rest.
⁷ I would fly far away
    and make my home in the desert.
⁸ I would hurry and find myself a shelter
    from the raging wind and the storm.
⁹ Confuse the speech of my enemies, O Lord!

I see violence and riots in the city,
¹⁰     surrounding it day and night,
    filling it with crime and trouble.
¹¹ There is destruction everywhere;
    the streets are full of oppression and fraud.

¹² If it were an enemy making fun of me,
    I could endure it;
if it were an opponent boasting over me,
    I could hide myself from him.
¹³ But it is you, my companion,
    my colleague and close friend.
¹⁴ We had intimate talks with each other
    and worshiped together in the Temple.
¹⁵ May my enemies die before their time;
    may they go down alive into the world of the dead!
Evil is in their homes and in their hearts.

¹⁶ But I call to the Lord God for help,
    and he will save me.
¹⁷ Morning, noon, and night
    my complaints and groans go up to him,
    and he will hear my voice.
¹⁸ He will bring me safely back
    from the battles that I fight
    against so many enemies.
¹⁹ God, who has ruled from eternity,
    will hear me and defeat them;
for they refuse to change,
    and they do not fear him.

²⁰ My former companion attacked his friends;
    he broke his promises.
²¹ His words were smoother than cream,
    but there was hatred in his heart;
his words were as soothing as oil,
    but they cut like sharp swords.

²² Leave your troubles with the Lord,
    and he will defend you;
    he never lets honest people be defeated.

²³ But you, O God, will bring those murderers and liars to their graves
    before half their life is over.
As for me, I will trust in you.

Psalm 54 Easy-to-Read Version (ERV)

To the director: With instruments. A maskil of David written when the Ziphites went to Saul and told him, “We think David is hiding among our people.”

54 God, use your power and save me.
    Use your great power to set me free.
² God, listen to my prayer.
    Listen to what I say.
³ Strangers who don’t even think about God have turned against me.
    Those powerful men are trying to kill me. Selah

⁴ Look, my God will help me.
    My Lord will support me.
⁵ He will punish the people who turned against me.
    God, be faithful to me and destroy them.

⁶ Lord, I will give freewill offerings to you.
    I will praise your good name.
⁷ You saved me from all my troubles.
    I saw my enemies defeated.