Psalms:53:2: God looked down from heaven upon the children of men, to see if there were any that did understand, that did seek God.
Psalms:53:3: Every one of them is gone back: they are altogether become filthy; there is none that doeth good, no, not one.
Psalms:53:4: Have the workers of iniquity no knowledge? who eat up my people as they eat bread: they have not called upon God.
Psalms:53:5: There were they in great fear, where no fear was: for God hath scattered the bones of him that encampeth against thee: thou hast put them to shame, because God hath despised them.
Psalms:53:6: Oh that the salvation of Israel were come out of Zion! When God bringeth back the captivity of his people, Jacob shall rejoice, and Israel shall be glad.
Chapter 54
Psalms:54:1: Save me, O God, by thy name, and judge me by thy strength.
Psalms:54:2: Hear my prayer, O God; give ear to the words of my mouth.
Psalms:54:3: For strangers are risen up against me, and oppressors seek after my soul: they have not set God before them. Selah.
Psalms:54:4: Behold, God is mine helper: the Lord is with them that uphold my soul.
Psalms:54:5: He shall reward evil unto mine enemies: cut them off in thy truth.
Psalms:54:6: I will freely sacrifice unto thee: I will praise thy name, O LORD; for it is good.
Psalms:54:7: For he hath delivered me out of all trouble: and mine eye hath seen his desire upon mine enemies.
Chapter 55
Psalms:55:1: Give ear to my prayer, O God; and hide not thyself from my supplication.
Psalms:55:2: Attend unto me, and hear me: I mourn in my complaint, and make a noise;
Psalms:55:3: Because of the voice of the enemy, because of the oppression of the wicked: for they cast iniquity upon me, and in wrath they hate me.
Psalms:55:4: My heart is sore pained within me: and the terrors of death are fallen upon me.
Psalms:55:5: Fearfulness and trembling are come upon me, and horror hath overwhelmed me.
Psalms:55:6: And I said, Oh that I had wings like a dove! for then would I fly away, and be at rest.
Psalms:55:7: Lo, then would I wander far off, and remain in the wilderness. Selah.
Psalms:55:8: I would hasten my escape from the windy storm and tempest.
Psalms:55:9: Destroy, O Lord, and divide their tongues: for I have seen violence and strife in the city.
Psalms:55:10: Day and night they go about it upon the walls thereof: mischief also and sorrow are in the midst of it.
Psalms:55:11: Wickedness is in the midst thereof: deceit and guile depart not from her streets.
Psalms:55:12: For it was not an enemy that reproached me; then I could have borne it: neither was it he that hated me that did magnify himself against me; then I would have hid myself from him:
Psalms:55:13: But it was thou, a man mine equal, my guide, and mine acquaintance.
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