Psalms 55:2–3

¹⁴Like a crane or a swallow, so did I chatter: I did mourn as a dove: mine eyes fail with looking upward: O Lord, I am oppressed; undertake for me.

¹⁹But verily God hath heard me; he hath attended to the voice of my prayer.

³I remembered God, and was troubled: I complained, and my spirit was overwhelmed. Selah.

¹¹We roar all like bears, and mourn sore like doves: we look for judgment, but there is none; for salvation, but it is far off from us.

¹HEAR my voice, O God, in my prayer: preserve my life from fear of the enemy.

⁹For I have eaten ashes like bread, and mingled my drink with weeping,

¹⁰Because of thine indignation and thy wrath: for thou hast lifted me up, and cast me down.

⁶I am troubled; I am bowed down greatly; I go mourning all the day long.

²For thou art the God of my strength: why dost thou cast me off? why go I mourning because of the oppression of the enemy?

¹HOW long wilt thou forget me, O Lord? for ever? how long wilt thou hide thy face from me?

²How long shall I take counsel in my soul, having sorrow in my heart daily? how long shall mine enemy be exalted over me?

³When I kept silence, my bones waxed old through my roaring all the day long.

⁷And thus said Shimei when he cursed, Come out, come out, thou bloody man, and thou man of Belial:

⁸The Lord hath returned upon thee all the blood of the house of Saul, in whose stead thou hast reigned; and the Lord hath delivered the kingdom into the hand of Absalom thy son: and, behold, thou art taken in thy mischief, because thou art a bloody man.

¹¹False witnesses did rise up; they laid to my charge things that I knew not.

¹²Deliver me not over unto the will of mine enemies: for false witnesses are risen up against me, and such as breathe out cruelty.

³And Absalom said unto him, See, thy matters are good and right; but there is no man deputed of the king to hear thee.

¹⁹And said unto the king, Let not my lord impute iniquity unto me, neither do thou remember that which thy servant did perversely the day that my lord the king went out of Jerusalem, that the king should take it to his heart.

³⁴To crush under his feet all the prisoners of the earth,

³⁵To turn aside the right of a man before the face of the most High,

³⁶To subvert a man in his cause, the Lord approveth not.

⁵⁹Now the chief priests, and elders, and all the council, sought false witness against Jesus, to put him to death;

⁵For the oppression of the poor, for the sighing of the needy, now will I arise, saith the Lord; I will set him in safety from him that puffeth at him.

⁹From the wicked that oppress me, from my deadly enemies, who compass me about.

³For strangers are risen up against me, and oppressors seek after my soul: they have not set God before them. Selah.

¹¹Saying, God hath forsaken him: persecute and take him; for there is none to deliver him.

⁸They are corrupt, and speak wickedly concerning oppression: they speak loftily.