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Psalms 55

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Part of Book II📖 Psalms introduction

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1Give ear to my prayer, O God; and hide not thyself from my supplication. ✦ 2Attend unto me, and hear me: I mourn in my complaint, and make a noise; ✦ 3Because of the voice of the enemy, because of the oppression of the wicked: for they cast iniquity upon me, and in wrath they hate me. ✦ 4My heart is sore pained within me: and the terrors of death are fallen upon me. ✦ 5Fearfulness and trembling are come upon me, and horror hath overwhelmed me. ✦ 6And I said, Oh that I had wings like a dove! for then would I fly away, and be at rest. ✦ 7Lo, then would I wander far off, and remain in the wilderness. Selah. ✦ 8I would hasten my escape from the windy storm and tempest. ✦ 9Destroy, O Lord, and divide their tongues: for I have seen violence and strife in the city. ✦ 10Day and night they go about it upon the walls thereof: mischief also and sorrow are in the midst of it. ✦ 11Wickedness is in the midst thereof: deceit and guile depart not from her streets. ✦ 12For it was not an enemy that reproached me; then I could have borne it: neither was it he that hated me that did magnify himself against me; then I would have hid myself from him: ✦ 13But it was thou, a man mine equal, my guide, and mine acquaintance. ✦ 14We took sweet counsel together, and walked unto the house of God in company. ✦ 15Let death seize upon them, and let them go down quick into hell: for wickedness is in their dwellings, and among them. ✦ 16As for me, I will call upon God; and the LORD shall save me. ✦ 17Evening, and morning, and at noon, will I pray, and cry aloud: and he shall hear my voice. ✦ 18He hath delivered my soul in peace from the battle that was against me: for there were many with me. ✦ 19God shall hear, and afflict them, even he that abideth of old. Selah. Because they have no changes, therefore they fear not God. ✦ 20He hath put forth his hands against such as be at peace with him: he hath broken his covenant. ✦ 21The words of his mouth were smoother than butter, but war was in his heart: his words were softer than oil, yet were they drawn swords. ✦ 22Cast thy burden upon the LORD, and he shall sustain thee: he shall never suffer the righteous to be moved. ✦ 23But thou, O God, shalt bring them down into the pit of destruction: bloody and deceitful men shall not live out half their days; but I will trust in thee. ✦

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Where this chapter connects

Matt 26 ·82 Sam 15 ·6Ps 59 ·5Ps 64 ·4Ps 109 ·42 Sam 17 ·4Ps 5 ·4Ps 62 ·4

Christ at the center

The Psalms are Christ's own prayer book and a gallery of his portraits — the suffering one of Psalm 22, the risen Lord of Psalm 16, the priest-king of Psalm 110, the Son to whom the nations are given.

How Psalms 55 points to him is part of the one story that runs through all Scripture — meet Jesus at the heart of the web, or follow a trail that traces him from Genesis to Revelation.

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  • ★ Start hereAudioThrough the WordThrough the Word · ~10 min/chapter · Free · evangelical

    A clear ~10-minute audio teaching for every one of the Bible's 1,189 chapters — the most systematic free way to study chapter by chapter.

  • ★ Start hereCommentaryPsalms (Tyndale OT Commentaries)Derek Kidner · Paid · evangelical

    Concise, theologically rich, and wonderfully accessible — the best place to start on the Psalms.

Pastoral

  • SermonChuck Smith — C2000 SeriesChuck Smith · Free · evangelical

    Free verse-by-verse audio through the entire Bible from the founder of Calvary Chapel.

Commentaries & study tools

  • VideoBibleProject — Psalms videosBibleProject · Lay · Free · evangelical

    Free animated overview and word-study videos for this book.

  • VideoWatch teaching on Psalms 55YouTube · Lay · Free

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  • CommentaryEnduring Word — Psalms 55David Guzik · Lay · Free · evangelical

    Readable, verse-by-verse exposition of the whole chapter.

  • CommentaryMatthew Henry on PsalmsMatthew Henry · Pastoral · Free · evangelical

    The beloved Puritan exposition of this whole book — warm, devotional, and verse by verse (free, CCEL).

  • ReferenceBlue Letter Bible — Psalms 55Blue Letter Bible · Seminary · Free

    Interlinear, lexicon, and study tools across the chapter.

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