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Psalm 56 Revised Version with Apocrypha

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  • Protestant
  • OT: Masoretic Hebrew
  • NT: Critical text
  • Protestant, with the Apocrypha
  • Formal (word for word)
  • 1895
  • Public domain

Audio: World English Bible (WEB), read by Winfred W. Henson · About the recordings

Notes on this text (1)

1 For the Chief Musician; set to Jonath elem rehokim. [A Psalm ]of David: Michtam: when the Philistines took him in Gath. Be merciful unto me, O God; for man would swallow me up: all the day long he fighting oppresseth me. 2 Mine enemies would swallow me up all the day long: for they be many that fight proudly against me. 3 What time I am afraid, I will put my trust in thee. 4 In God I will praise his word: in God have I put my trust, I will not be afraid; what can flesh do unto me? 5 All the day long they wrest my words: all their thoughts are against me for evil. 6 They gather themselves together, they hide themselves, they mark my steps, even as they have waited for my soul. 7 Shall they escape by iniquity? in anger cast down the peoples, O God. 8 Thou tellest my wanderings: put thou my tears into thy bottle; are they not in thy book? 9 Then shall mine enemies turn back in the day that I call: this I know, that God is for me. 10 In God will I praise [his ]word: in the LORD will I praise [his ]word. 11 In God have I put my trust, I will not be afraid; what can man do unto me? 12 Thy vows are upon me, O God: I will render thank offerings unto thee. 13 For thou hast delivered my soul from death: [hast thou ]not [delivered ]my feet from falling? that I may walk before God in the light of the living.

Cross references (13)

Related passages for each verse, from the Treasury of Scripture Knowledge as collected and ranked by readers at OpenBible.info.

  1. 1 1 Samuel 29:4; Psalm 16:1; Psalm 31:9; Psalm 59:1; Psalm 69:13–16
  2. 2 Psalm 118:10–12; Psalm 57:3; Psalm 35:1; Daniel 5:18; Psalm 93:4
  3. 3 Psalm 34:4; 1 Samuel 30:6; 2 Corinthians 7:5–6; Psalm 55:4–5; 2 Corinthians 1:8–10
  4. 4 Hebrews 13:6; Psalm 118:6; Romans 8:31–39; Psalm 27:1; Isaiah 41:10
  5. 5 Matthew 22:15; Luke 11:54; Psalm 41:7; Isaiah 29:20–21; 2 Peter 3:16
  6. 6 Psalm 59:3; Psalm 71:10; Psalm 140:2; Acts 23:12–14; Luke 20:20
  7. 7 Psalm 55:23; Jeremiah 10:25; Psalm 94:20–21; Jeremiah 18:19–23; Psalm 36:12
  8. 8 2 Kings 20:5; Malachi 3:16; Psalm 39:12; Revelation 7:17; Psalm 126:5–6
  9. 9 Romans 8:31; Psalm 118:6; Psalm 46:11; Psalm 118:11–13; Psalm 102:2
  10. 10 Matthew 24:35; Psalm 56:4; Genesis 32:11; Hebrews 6:18; Psalm 60:6
  11. 11 Psalm 27:1; Isaiah 51:12–13; Isaiah 51:7–8; Psalm 112:7–8
  12. 12 Psalm 9:1–3; Psalm 50:14; 1 Samuel 1:24–28; Ecclesiastes 5:4–6; Numbers 30:2–16
  13. 13 Psalm 116:8–9; Job 33:30; Revelation 21:23–24; Psalm 145:14; Psalm 49:15

Cross references: OpenBible.info (CC BY), drawn mainly from the public-domain Treasury of Scripture Knowledge. · Sources & licences

What the Fathers said

Passages from the Church Fathers that expound or quote this chapter, verbatim from the public-domain Schaff edition (19th-century English translations).

How these were chosen

“Commentary” is the opening of a homily or exposition on this chapter (John Chrysostom’s homilies, Augustine’s tractates, sermons and expositions of the Psalms). “Quotes” are sentences where the edition’s own footnotes identify a quotation of a verse here, kept only when the wording matches the verse. Only works whose authorship is not in doubt are used. Psalms follow the Hebrew/English numbering (Augustine numbers them as the Septuagint does: his Psalm 50 is Psalm 51 here).

  1. Commentary Augustine of Hippo, Expositions on the Psalms (Psalm LV)

    Of this Psalm the title is: "At the end, in hymns, understanding to David himself." What the "end" is, we will briefly call to your recollection, because ye have known it. "For the end of the Law is Christ, for righteousness unto every man believing." Be the attention therefore directed unto the End, directed unto Christ.

    Read in context · Nicene and Post-Nicene Fathers, series 1, vol. 8 (1888)

  2. Quotes verse 56:10 Augustine of Hippo, Homilies on the First Epistle of John (Homily X)

    As the Psalm saith, "In God will I praise the discourse, in God will I praise the word." Hereby shall that which there follows come to pass in thee: "In God have I hoped, I will not fear what man can do unto me." For when all things that are thine are praised in God, no fear lest thy praise …

    Read in context · Nicene and Post-Nicene Fathers, series 1, vol. 7 (1888)