1 > Listen to my prayer, God. Don't hide yourself from my supplication.
> Hear, Yahweh, my righteous plea; Give ear to my prayer, that doesn't go out of deceitful lips.
Don't hide your face from me. Don't put your servant away in anger. You have been my help. Don't abandon me, Neither forsake me, God of my salvation.
> Save me, God, by your name. Vindicate me in your might. Hear my prayer, God. Listen to the words of my mouth.
> Hear my voice, God, in my complaint. Preserve my life from fear of the enemy.
Yahweh God of hosts, How long will you be angry against the prayer of your people?
Yahweh, God of hosts, hear my prayer. Listen, God of Jacob. Selah.
Hurry to answer me, Yahweh. My spirit fails. Don't hide your face from me, So that I don't become like those who go down into the pit.
Yes, when I cry, and call for help, he shuts out my prayer.
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Commentary on Psalms 55 Matthew Henry Commentary
Psalm 55
It is the conjecture of many expositors that David penned this psalm upon occasion of Absalom's rebellion, and that the particular enemy he here speaks of, that dealt treacherously with him, was Ahithophel; and some will therefore make David's troubles here typical of Christ's sufferings, and Ahithophel's treachery a figure of Judas's, because they both hanged themselves. But there is nothing in it particularly applied to Christ in the New Testament. David was in great distress when he penned this psalm.
In singing this psalm we may, if there be occasion, apply it to our own troubles; if not, we may sympathize with those to whose case it comes nearer, foreseeing that there will be, at last, indignation and wrath to the persecutors, salvation and joy to the persecuted.
To the chief musician on Neginoth, Maschil. A psalm of David.
Psa 55:1-8
In these verses we have,
Psa 55:9-15
David here complains of his enemies, whose wicked plots had brought him, though not to his faith's end, yet to his wits' end, and prays against them by the spirit of prophecy. Observe here,
Psa 55:16-23
In these verses,