The Book of Psalms

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- Kapitel 59 -

Deliver me from my enemies

(1 Samuel 19:1-24)

God, save me from my enemies! Protect me from those who want to attack me!

Keep me safe from men who want to do what is wicked, from men who are murderers!

Look! They are waiting to kill me! Fierce men have gathered to assault me. Yahweh, they are doing that even though I have not done what is wrong!

It is not because I have committed any sin against them that they run and get ready to attack me. Please look at my situation and help me.

Yahweh my God, Commander of the angel armies, the one we Israelites worship, arise and punish the people of all the nations who do not honor you; do not act mercifully toward those wicked people who have acted treacherously toward us.

They return each evening, snarling like vicious dogs as they prowl around this city.

They loudly say terrible things; they say things that destroy as much as swords do, because they are saying, “No one will hear us!”

But Yahweh, you laugh at them. You scoff at the people of the pagan nations.

God, I have confidence in you because you are very strong; you are my refuge.

Because you love me, you will come to save me as you have promised; you will allow me to watch while you defeat my enemies.

But do not kill them immediately; it is good that my people should not forget how you punished them! Instead, Lord, you who are like a shield that protects us, scatter them by your power, and then defeat them.

Because what they say is sinful, allow them to be trapped for being proud. Because they are always cursing and telling lies,

because you are angry, get rid of them; destroy them completely so that people will know that you rule over us, your Israelite people, and that you rule over all the earth.

They return each evening, snarling like vicious dogs as they prowl around this city.

They roam around, searching for food and if they do not find enough, they growl like dogs.

But as for me, I will sing about your power; every morning I will sing joyfully about your faithfully loving us. I will sing about how you protected me when I was very distressed.

God, you are the one who enables me to be strong; you are my refuge; you faithfully love me, just as you have promised in your covenant.

Deliver me from my enemies

(1 Samuel 19:1-24)

Deliver me from my enemies, my God. Set me on high from those who rise up against me.

Deliver me from the workers of iniquity. Save me from the bloodthirsty men.

For, behold, they lie in wait for my soul. The mighty gather themselves together against me, not for my disobedience, nor for my sin, LORD.

I have done no wrong, yet they are ready to attack me. Rise up, behold, and help me!

You, LORD God of Armies, the God of Israel, rouse yourself to punish the nations. Show no mercy to the wicked traitors. Selah.

They return at evening, howling like dogs, and prowl around the city.

Behold, they spew with their mouth. Swords are in their lips, “For”, they say, “who hears us?”

But you, LORD, laugh at them. You scoff at all the nations.

Oh, my Strength, I watch for you, for God is my high tower.

My God will go before me with his loving kindness. God will let me look at my enemies in triumph.

Don’t kill them, or my people may forget. Scatter them by your power, and bring them down, Lord our shield.

For the sin of their mouth, and the words of their lips, let them be caught in their pride, for the curses and lies which they utter.

Consume them in wrath. Consume them, and they will be no more. Let them know that God rules in Jacob, to the ends of the earth. Selah.

At evening let them return. Let them howl like a dog, and go around the city.

They shall wander up and down for food, and wait all night if they aren’t satisfied.

But I will sing of your strength. Yes, I will sing aloud of your loving kindness in the morning. For you have been my high tower, a refuge in the day of my distress.

To you, my strength, I will sing praises. For God is my high tower, the God of my mercy.