56: 1 Supplication for Deliverance, and Grateful Trust in God. For the Chief Musician; set to ³²⁵ Jonath elem rehokim. A Psalm of David. Michtam; when the Philistines took him in Gath. Be merciful unto me, O God; for man would swallow me up: All the day long he fighting oppresseth me.
³²⁵That is, The silent dove of them that are afar off. or,  Hb^mg reads The dove of the distant terebinths.

56: 2 ³²⁶Mine enemies would swallow me up all the day long; For they are many that fight proudly against me.
³²⁶Or, They that lie in wait for me would etc.

56: 3 What time I am afraid, I will put my trust in thee.
56: 4 In God (I will praise his word), In God have I put my trust, I will not be afraid; What can flesh do unto me?
56: 5 All the day long they wrest my words: All their thoughts are against me for evil.
56: 6 They gather themselves together, they hide themselves, They mark my steps, ³²⁷Even as they have waited for my soul.
³²⁷Or, Inasmuch as they have waited for my soul.

56: 7 ³²⁸Shall they escape by iniquity? In anger cast down the peoples, O God.
³²⁸They think to escape by iniquity.

56: 8 Thou numberest my wanderings: Put thou my tears into thy bottle; Are they not in thy ³²⁹book?
³²⁹Or, record

56: 9 Then shall mine enemies turn back in the day that I call: This I know, ³³⁰that God is for me.
³³⁰Or, for God is for me.

56: 10 In God (I will praise his word), In Jehovah (I will praise his word),
56: 11 In God have I put my trust, I will not be afraid; What can man do unto me?
56: 12 Thy vows are upon me, O God: I will render thank-offerings unto thee.
56: 13 For thou hast delivered my soul from death: Hast thou not delivered my feet from falling, That I may walk before God In the light of ³³¹the living?
³³¹Or, life Lit. the lives