Greek Psalm 54

Oh That I Had Wings Like a Dove — and It Was My Friend

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54:1For the end. Among hymns. Of understanding, of David.

54:2Give ear, God, to my prayer,

and do not overlook my petition.

54:3Attend to me and hear me.

I was grieved in my meditation and troubled

54:4by an enemy’s voice and a sinner’s affliction,

for they turned lawlessness upon me

and harbored anger against me.

54:5My heart was troubled within me,

and dread of death fell upon me.

54:6Fear and trembling came upon me,

and darkness covered me.

54:7I said, “Who will give me wings like a dove’s,

so that I may fly away and rest?”

54:8Look, I went far away in flight

and lodged in the wilderness. Diapsalma.

54:9I waited for the one saving me

from faintheartedness and tempest.

54:10Drown them, Lord, and divide their tongues,

for I saw lawlessness and contradiction in the city.

54:11Day and night it will circle it upon its walls;

lawlessness and toil are within it, and injustice,

54:12and interest-taking and deceit did not depart from its squares.

54:13For if an enemy had reproached me, I would have endured it;

and if the one hating me had boasted against me, I would have hidden from him.

54:14But you, a man of like soul,

my leader and my acquaintance,

54:15you who made food sweet together with me:

in God’s house we walked in concord.

54:16Let death come upon them,

and let them descend alive into Hades,

for wicked things are in their sojournings, within them.

54:17But I cried to God,

and the Lord heard me.

54:18Evening, morning and noon I will recount;

I will proclaim, and He will hear my voice.

54:19He will redeem my soul in peace from those drawing near me,

for among many they were with me.

54:20God will hear and humble them,

He who exists before the ages. Diapsalma.

For they have no exchange,

and they did not fear God.

54:21He stretched out his hand in making repayment;

they profaned his covenant.

54:22They were divided by the anger of his face,

and his heart drew near;

his words became softer than oil,

yet they are missiles.

54:23Cast your care upon the Lord, and He will nourish you;

He will never give the righteous a shaking.

54:24But You, God, will bring them down into a well of corruption;

men of bloodshed and deceit shall certainly not live out half their days.

But I will hope in You, Lord.

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