1 Inclina, ó Deus, os teus ouvidos à minha oração, e não te escondas da minha súplica.
2 Atende-me, e ouve-me; lamento na minha queixa, e faço ruído,
3 Pelo clamor do inimigo e por causa da opressão do ímpio; pois lançam sobre mim a iniqüidade, e com furor me odeiam.
4 O meu coração está dolorido dentro de mim, e terrores da morte caíram sobre mim.
5 Temor e tremor vieram sobre mim; e o horror me cobriu.
6 Assim eu disse: Oh! quem me dera asas como de pomba! Então voaria, e estaria em descanso.
7 Eis que fugiria para longe, e pernoitaria no deserto. (Selá.)
8 Apressar-me-ia a escapar da fúria do vento e da tempestade.
9 Despedaça, Senhor, e divide as suas línguas, pois tenho visto violência e contenda na cidade.
10 De dia e de noite a cercam sobre os seus muros; iniqüidade e malícia estão no meio dela.
11 Maldade há dentro dela; astúcia e engano não se apartam das suas ruas.
12 Pois não era um inimigo que me afrontava; então eu o teria suportado; nem era o que me odiava que se engrandecia contra mim, porque dele me teria escondido.
13 Mas eras tu, homem meu igual, meu guia e meu íntimo amigo.
14 Consultávamos juntos suavemente, e andávamos em companhia na casa de Deus.
15 A morte os assalte, e vivos desçam ao inferno; porque há maldade nas suas habitações e no meio deles.
16 Eu, porém, invocarei a Deus, e o Senhor me salvará.
17 De tarde e de manhã e ao meio-dia orarei; e clamarei, e ele ouvirá a minha voz.
18 Livrou em paz a minha alma da peleja que havia contra mim; pois havia muitos comigo.
19 Deus ouvirá, e os afligirá. Aquele que preside desde a antiguidade (Selá), porque não há neles nenhuma mudança, e portanto não temem a Deus.
20 Tal homem pôs as suas mãos naqueles que têm paz com ele; quebrou a sua aliança.
21 As palavras da sua boca eram mais macias do que a manteiga, mas havia guerra no seu coração: as suas palavras eram mais brandas do que o azeite; contudo, eram espadas desembainhadas.
22 Lança o teu cuidado sobre o Senhor, e ele te susterá; não permitirá jamais que o justo seja abalado.
23 Mas tu, ó Deus, os farás descer ao poço da perdição; homens de sangue e de fraude não viverão metade dos seus dias; mas eu em ti confiarei.
1 To the chief music-maker, on Neginoth. Maschil. Of David.
2 \55:1\Give hearing to my prayer, O God; and let not your ear be shut against my request.
3 \55:2\Give thought to me, and let my prayer be answered: I have been made low in sorrow;
4 \55:3\I am troubled because of the voice of the cruel ones, because of the loud cry of the evil-doers; for they put a weight of evil on me, and they are cruel in their hate for me.
5 \55:4\My heart is deeply wounded, and the fear of death has come on me.
6 \55:5\Fear and shaking have come over me, with deep fear I am covered.
7 \55:6\And I said, If only I had wings like a dove! for then I would go in flight from here and be at rest.
8 \55:7\I would go wandering far away, living in the waste land. (Selah.)
9 \55:8\I would quickly take cover from the driving storm and from the violent wind.
10 \55:9\Send destruction on them, O Lord, make a division of tongues among them: for I have seen fighting and violent acts in the town.
11 \55:10\By day and night they go round the town, on the walls; trouble and sorrow are in the heart of it.
12 \55:11\Evil is there; cruel rule and deceit are ever in the streets.
13 \55:12\For it was not my hater who said evil of me; that would have been no grief to me; it was not one outside the number of my friends who made himself strong against me, or I would have kept myself from him in a secret place;
14 \55:13\But it was you, my equal, my guide, my well-loved friend.
15 \55:14\We had loving talk together, and went to the house of God in company.
16 \55:15\Let the hand of death come on them suddenly, and let them go down living into the underworld; because evil is in their houses and in their hearts.
17 \55:16\As for me, I will make my prayer to God, and he will be my saviour.
18 \55:17\In the evening and in the morning and in the middle of the day I will make my prayer with sounds of grief; and my voice will come to his ears.
19 \55:18\He has taken my soul away from the attack which was made against me, and given it peace; for great numbers were against me.
20 \55:19\God will give thought to me; he who from early times is strong will send pain and trouble on them. (Selah.) Because they are unchanged, they have no fear of God.
21 \55:20\He has put out his hand against those who were at peace with him; he has not kept his agreement.
22 \55:21\The words of his mouth were smoother than butter, but war was in his heart; his words were softer than oil, but they were sharp swords.
23 \55:22\Put your cares on the Lord, and he will be your support; he will not let the upright man be moved.
24 \55:23\But you, O God, will send them down into the underworld; the cruel and the false will be cut off before half their days are ended; but I will have faith in you.