For the Chief Musician. To the tune of “Silent Dove in Distant Lands.” A poem by David, when the Philistines seized him in Gath.
Be merciful to me, God, for man wants to swallow me up. 1Sa 29:4Psa 16:1Psa 31:9Psa 59:1Psa 69:13-161Co 15:541Sa 21:11-15Psa 143:12
All day long, he attacks and oppresses me.
My enemies want to swallow me up all day long, Psa 118:10-12Psa 57:3Act 4:25-27Dan 5:18Isa 57:15Mic 6:6Psa 3:1Psa 35:1
for they are many who fight proudly against me.
When I am afraid, Psa 34:41Sa 30:62Co 7:5-6Psa 55:4-52Co 1:8-101Sa 21:122Ch 20:3Psa 11:1
I will put my trust in you.
In God, I praise his word. Heb 13:6Psa 118:6Rom 8:31-39Psa 27:1Isa 41:10Luk 12:4-5Psa 56:10-11Psa 46:1-2
In God, I put my trust.
I will not be afraid.
What can flesh do to me?
All day long they twist my words. Mat 22:15Luk 11:54Psa 41:7Isa 29:20-212Pe 3:161Sa 18:211Sa 18:17Jhn 2:19
All their thoughts are against me for evil.
They conspire and lurk, Psa 59:3Psa 71:10Psa 140:2Act 23:12-14Luk 20:20Act 4:5-6Dan 6:4Isa 54:15
watching my steps.
They are eager to take my life.
Shall they escape by iniquity? Psa 55:23Ecc 8:8Hab 1:13Isa 28:15Jer 10:25Jer 18:19-23Jer 7:10Psa 36:12
In anger cast down the peoples, God.
You count my wanderings. 2Ki 20:5Mal 3:16Psa 39:12Rev 7:17Psa 126:5-6Mat 10:30Psa 139:16Psa 121:8
You put my tears into your container.
Aren’t they in your book?
Then my enemies shall turn back in the day that I call. Rom 8:31Psa 118:6Isa 8:9-10Psa 102:2Psa 118:11-13Psa 46:11Jer 33:3Psa 46:7
I know this: that God is for me.
In God, I will praise his word. Mat 24:35Gen 32:11Psa 56:42Pe 1:4Heb 6:18Psa 60:6
In the LORD, I will praise his word.
I have put my trust in God. Psa 27:1Isa 51:12-13Isa 51:7-8Psa 112:7-8
I will not be afraid.
What can man do to me?
Your vows are on me, God. Psa 9:1-31Sa 1:24-28Psa 50:14Ecc 5:4-6Num 30:2-16Psa 119:106Psa 76:111Sa 1:11
I will give thank offerings to you.
For you have delivered my soul from death, Psa 116:8-9Job 33:30Rev 21:23-24Psa 145:14Psa 49:151Th 1:10Isa 2:5Psa 17:5
and prevented my feet from falling,
that I may walk before God in the light of the living.