1To the choirmaster: with stringed instruments. A Maskil[1] of David. Give ear to my prayer, O God, and hide not yourself from my plea for mercy! (مز 4:1; مز 54:2; مز 61:1; مز 86:6)2Attend to me, and answer me; I am restless in my complaint and I moan, (مز 55:17; مز 64:1; إش 38:14; إش 59:11)3because of the noise of the enemy, because of the oppression of the wicked. For they drop trouble upon me, and in anger they bear a grudge against me. (2صم 16:7)4My heart is in anguish within me; the terrors of death have fallen upon me. (مز 116:3)5Fear and trembling come upon me, and horror overwhelms me. (أي 21:6; مز 78:53; إش 21:4; حز 7:18)6And I say, “Oh, that I had wings like a dove! I would fly away and be at rest;7yes, I would wander far away; I would lodge in the wilderness; (إر 9:2)8I would hurry to find a shelter from the raging wind and tempest.” (مز 83:15)9Destroy, O Lord, divide their tongues; for I see violence and strife in the city. (تك 11:9; إر 6:7)10Day and night they go around it on its walls, and iniquity and trouble are within it; (مز 5:9)11ruin is in its midst; oppression and fraud do not depart from its marketplace. (مز 10:7)12For it is not an enemy who taunts me— then I could bear it; it is not an adversary who deals insolently with me— then I could hide from him. (أي 19:5)13But it is you, a man, my equal, my companion, my familiar friend. (2صم 15:12; 2صم 16:23; مز 41:9)14We used to take sweet counsel together; within God’s house we walked in the throng. (مز 42:4)15Let death steal over them; let them go down to Sheol alive; for evil is in their dwelling place and in their heart. (عد 16:30; عد 16:33; مز 124:3; أم 1:12)16But I call to God, and the Lord will save me.17Evening and morning and at noon I utter my complaint and moan, and he hears my voice. (مز 5:3; مز 55:2; مز 88:13; مز 92:2; مز 141:2; دا 6:10; أع 3:1; أع 10:3; أع 10:9; أع 10:30)18He redeems my soul in safety from the battle that I wage, for many are arrayed against me. (مز 56:2)19God will give ear and humble them, he who is enthroned from of old, because they do not change and do not fear God. (تث 33:27; أي 10:17; أي 21:7)20My companion[2] stretched out his hand against his friends; he violated his covenant. (أع 12:1)21His speech was smooth as butter, yet war was in his heart; his words were softer than oil, yet they were drawn swords. (مز 28:3; مز 57:4; أم 5:3)22Cast your burden on the Lord, and he will sustain you; he will never permit the righteous to be moved. (مز 10:6; مز 37:5)23But you, O God, will cast them down into the pit of destruction; men of blood and treachery shall not live out half their days. But I will trust in you. (أي 15:32; مز 5:6; مز 11:1; مز 55:15; مز 56:7; مز 59:11; مز 69:15; مز 94:13; أم 10:27)