{"meta":{"source":"Prime Bible","sourceUrl":"https://primebible.com","license":"Public domain (translation text); see citation policy at /citation-policy","organization":"501(c)(3) nonprofit — EIN 41-2531951","canonicalUrl":"https://primebible.com/ylt/psalms/55","llmTxt":"https://primebible.com/llms.txt","generatedAt":"2026-06-17T09:39:07.863Z"},"reference":{"translation":"YLT","book":"Psalms","bookSlug":"psalms","chapter":55,"testament":"OLD"},"navigation":{"previousChapter":54,"nextChapter":56,"totalChapters":150,"totalVerses":23},"verses":[{"verseNumber":1,"text":"To the Overseer with stringed instruments. — An instruction, by David. Give ear, O God, to my prayer, And hide not from my supplication."},{"verseNumber":2,"text":"Attend to me, and answer me, I mourn in my meditation, and make a noise,"},{"verseNumber":3,"text":"Because 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."},{"verseNumber":4,"text":"My heart is pained within me, And terrors of death have fallen on me."},{"verseNumber":5,"text":"Fear and trembling come in to me, And horror doth cover me."},{"verseNumber":6,"text":"And I say, 'Who doth give to me a pinion as a dove? I fly away and rest,"},{"verseNumber":7,"text":"Lo, I move far off, I lodge in a wilderness. Selah."},{"verseNumber":8,"text":"I hasten escape for myself, From a rushing wind, from a whirlwind."},{"verseNumber":9,"text":"Swallow up, O Lord, divide their tongue, For I saw violence and strife in a city."},{"verseNumber":10,"text":"By day and by night they go round it, on its walls. Both iniquity and perverseness are in its midst,"},{"verseNumber":11,"text":"Mischiefs are in its midst. Fraud and deceit depart not from its street."},{"verseNumber":12,"text":"For 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."},{"verseNumber":13,"text":"But thou, a man — as mine equal, My familiar friend, and mine acquaintance."},{"verseNumber":14,"text":"When together we sweeten counsel, Into the house of God we walk in company."},{"verseNumber":15,"text":"Desolations are upon them, They go down to Sheol — alive, For wickedness is in their dwelling, in their midst."},{"verseNumber":16,"text":"I — to God I call, and Jehovah saveth me."},{"verseNumber":17,"text":"Evening, and morning, and noon, I meditate, and make a noise, and He heareth my voice,"},{"verseNumber":18,"text":"He hath ransomed in peace my soul From him who is near to me, For with the multitude they were with me."},{"verseNumber":19,"text":"God doth hear and afflict them, And He sitteth of old. Selah. Because they have no changes, and fear not God,"},{"verseNumber":20,"text":"He hath sent forth his hands against his well-wishers, He hath polluted his covenant."},{"verseNumber":21,"text":"Sweeter than honey hath been his mouth, And his heart is war! Softer have been his words than oil, And they are drawn swords."},{"verseNumber":22,"text":"Cast on Jehovah that which He hath given thee, And He doth sustain thee, He doth not suffer for ever the moving of the righteous."},{"verseNumber":23,"text":"And 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!"}],"citation":{"inline":"Psalms 55 (YLT)","markdown":"[Psalms 55](https://primebible.com/ylt/psalms/55)","sbl":"Prime Bible. *The Bible.* YLT. https://primebible.com/ylt/psalms/55 (accessed 2026-06-17)."}}