Psalms 59

KING JAMES BIBLE	CATHOLIC PUBLIC DOMAIN
1 Deliver me from mine enemies, O my God: defend me from them that rise up against me.	1 Unto the end. For those who will be changed, with the inscription of a title, of David himself, for instruction:
2 Deliver me from the workers of iniquity, and save me from bloody men.	2 when he set fire to Mesopotamia of Syria and Sobal, and Joab turned back and struck Idumea, in the valley of the salt pits, twelve thousand men.
3 For, lo, they lie in wait for my soul: the mighty are gathered against me; not for my transgression, nor for my sin, O LORD.	3 O God, you have rejected us, and you have ruined us. You became angry, and yet you have been merciful to us.
4 They run and prepare themselves without my fault: awake to help me, and behold.	4 You have moved the earth, and you have disturbed it. Heal its breaches, for it has been moved.
5 Thou therefore, O LORD God of hosts, the God of Israel, awake to visit all the heathen: be not merciful to any wicked transgressors. Selah.	5 You have revealed to your people difficulties. You have made us drink the wine of remorse.
6 They return at evening: they make a noise like a dog, and go round about the city.	6 You have given a warning sign to those who fear you, so that they may flee from before the face of the bow, so that your beloved may be delivered.
7 Behold, they belch out with their mouth: swords are in their lips: for who, say they, doth hear?	7 Save me with your right hand, and hear me.
8 But thou, O LORD, shalt laugh at them; thou shalt have all the heathen in derision.	8 God has spoken in his holy place: I will rejoice, and I will divide Shechem, and I will measure the steep valley of the tabernacles.
9 Because of his strength will I wait upon thee: for God is my defence.	9 Gilead is mine, and Manasseh is mine. And Ephraim is the strength of my head. Judah is my king.
10 The God of my mercy shall prevent me: God shall let me see my desire upon mine enemies.	10 Moab is the cooking pot of my hope. Into Idumea, I will extend my shoe. To me, the foreigners have been made subject.
11 Slay them not, lest my people forget: scatter them by thy power; and bring them down, O Lord our shield.	11 Who will lead me into the fortified city? Who will lead me all the way to Idumea?
12 For the sin of their mouth and the words of their lips let them even be taken in their pride: and for cursing and lying which they speak.	12 Will not you, O God, who has rejected us? And will not you, O God, go out with our armies?
13 Consume them in wrath, consume them, that they may not be: and let them know that God ruleth in Jacob unto the ends of the earth. Selah.	13 Grant us help from tribulation. For salvation from man is empty.
14 And at evening let them return; and let them make a noise like a dog, and go round about the city.	14 In God, we will act virtuously. And those who trouble us, he will lead to nothing.
15 Let them wander up and down for meat, and grudge if they be not satisfied.
16 But I will sing of thy power; yea, I will sing aloud of thy mercy in the morning: for thou hast been my defence and refuge in the day of my trouble.
17 Unto thee, O my strength, will I sing: for God is my defence, and the God of my mercy.