25 Do not let them say in their hearts,
“Aha! Just what we wanted.”
Do not let them say,
“We have swallowed him up!”(A)

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Psalm 56

A Call for God’s Protection

For the choir director: according to “A Silent Dove Far Away.”[a] A Davidic Miktam. When the Philistines seized him in Gath.(A)

Be gracious to me, God, for man tramples me;
he fights and oppresses me all day long.

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Footnotes

  1. Psalm 56:1 Possibly a tune

12 Let’s swallow them alive,(A) like Sheol,
still healthy as they go down to the Pit.(B)

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