English / ERV
Psalms 55
Easy-to-Read Version, 2006
- 1God, hear my prayer. Don’t ignore my cry for help.
- 2Please listen and answer me. Let me speak to you and tell you what upsets me.
- 3My enemies shout at me and threaten me. In their anger they attack me. They bring troubles crashing down on me.
- 4My heart is pounding inside me. I am afraid to die.
- 5I am trembling with fear. I am terrified!
- 6Oh, I wish I had wings like a dove. I would fly away and find a place to rest.
- 7I would go far into the desert and stay there. Selah
- 8I would run away. I would escape from this storm of trouble.
- 9My Lord, confuse their words and stop their plans. I see so much cruelty and fighting in this city.
- 10Day and night, in every neighborhood, the city is filled with evil and trouble.
- 11There is so much crime in the streets. People who hurt and cheat others are everywhere.
- 12If it were an enemy insulting me, I could bear it. If it were my enemies attacking me, I could hide.
- 13But it is you, the one so close to me, my companion, my good friend, who does this.
- 14We used to share our secrets with one another, as we walked through the crowds together in God’s Temple.
- 15I wish death would take my enemies by surprise! I wish the earth would open up and swallow them alive,[1] because they plan such terrible things together.