Psalms 56

¹Be merciful unto me, O God; for man would swallow me up:

²Mine enemies would swallow me up all the day long;

³What time I am afraid,

⁴In God (I will praise his word),

⁵All the day long they wrest my words:

⁶They gather themselves together, they hide themselves,

⁷Shall they escape by iniquity?

⁸Thou numberest my wanderings:

⁹Then shall mine enemies turn back in the day that I call:

¹⁰In God (I will praise his word),

¹¹In God have I put my trust, I will not be afraid;

¹²Thy vows are upon me, O God:

¹³For thou hast delivered my soul from death: