1Give ear, O God, to my prayer, And hide not from my supplication.2Attend to me, and answer me, I mourn in my meditation, and make a noise,3Because of the voice of an enemy, Because of the oppression of the wicked, For they cause sorrow to move against me, And in anger they hate me.4My heart is pained within me, And terrors of death have fallen on me.5Fear and trembling come in to me, And horror doth cover me.6And I say, `Who doth give to me a pinion as a dove? I fly away and rest,7Lo, I move far off, I lodge in a wilderness. Selah.8I hasten escape for myself, From a rushing wind, from a whirlwind.9Swallow up, O Lord, divide their tongue, For I saw violence and strife in a city.10By day and by night they go round it, on its walls. Both iniquity and perverseness are in its midst,11Mischiefs are in its midst. Fraud and deceit depart not from its street.12For an enemy reproacheth me not, or I bear it, He who is hating me Hath not magnified himself against me, Or I hide from him.13But thou, a man -- as mine equal, My familiar friend, and mine acquaintance.14When together we sweeten counsel, Into the house of God we walk in company.15Desolations are upon them, They go down to Sheol -- alive, For wickedness is in their dwelling, in their midst.16I -- to God I call, and Jehovah saveth me.17Evening, and morning, and noon, I meditate, and make a noise, and He heareth my voice,18He hath ransomed in peace my soul From him who is near to me, For with the multitude they were with me.19God doth hear and afflict them, And He sitteth of old. Selah. Because they have no changes, and fear not God,20He hath sent forth his hands against his well-wishers, He hath polluted his covenant.21Sweeter than honey hath been his mouth, And his heart is war! Softer have been his words than oil, And they are drawn swords.22Cast on Jehovah that which He hath given thee, And He doth sustain thee, He doth not suffer for ever the moving of the righteous.23And Thou, O God, dost bring them down To a pit of destruction, Men of blood and deceit reach not to half their days, And I -- I do trust in Thee!

To the Overseer. -- `On the Dumb Dove far off.' -- A secret treasure of David, in the Philistines' taking hold of him in Gath.1Favour me, O God, for man swallowed me up, All the day fighting he oppresseth me,2Mine enemies have swallowed up all the day, For many are fighting against me, O most High,3The day I am afraid I am confident toward Thee.4In God I praise His word, in God I have trusted, I fear not what flesh doth to me.5All the day they wrest my words, Concerning me all their thoughts are for evil,6They assemble, they hide, they watch my heels, When they have expected my soul.7By iniquity they escape, In anger the peoples put down, O God.8My wandering Thou hast counted, Thou -- place Thou my tear in Thy bottle, Are they not in Thy book?9Then turn back do mine enemies in the day I call. This I have known, that God is for me.10In God I praise the word, In Jehovah I praise the word.11In God I trusted, I fear not what man doth to me,12On me, O God, are Thy vows, I repay thank-offerings to Thee.13For Thou hast delivered my soul from death, Dost Thou not my feet from falling? To walk habitually before God in the light of the living!

To the Overseer. -- `Destroy not.' -- A secret treasure of David, in his fleeing from the face of Saul into a cave.1Favour me, O God, favour me, For in Thee is my soul trusting, And in the shadow of Thy wings I trust, Until the calamities pass over.2I call to God Most High, To God who is perfecting for me.3He sendeth from the heaven, and saveth me, He reproached -- who is panting after me. Selah. God sendeth forth His kindness and His truth.4My soul is in the midst of lions, I lie down among flames -- sons of men, Their teeth are a spear and arrows, And their tongue a sharp sword.5Be Thou exalted above the heavens, O God, Above all the earth Thine honour.6A net they have prepared for my steps, Bowed down hath my soul, They have digged before me a pit, They have fallen into its midst. Selah.7Prepared is my heart, O God, Prepared is my heart, I sing and praise.8Awake, mine honour, awake, psaltery and harp, I awake the morning dawn.9I thank Thee among the peoples, O Lord, I praise Thee among the nations.10For great unto the heavens is Thy kindness, And unto the clouds Thy truth.11Be thou exalted above the heavens, O God. Above all the earth Thine honour!