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Psalm 56:3
“What time I am afraid, I will trust in thee.”
Psalm 56:3, King James Version (KJV)
“When I am afraid, I will put my trust in you.”
World English Bible (WEB)
Psalm 56 (KJV)
To the chief Musician upon Jonath-elem-rechokim, Michtam of David, when the Philistines took him in Gath.
- 1Be merciful unto me, O God: for man would swallow me up; he fighting daily oppresseth me.
- 2Mine enemies would daily swallow me up: for they be many that fight against me, O thou most High.
- 3What time I am afraid, I will trust in thee.
- 4In God I will praise his word, in God I have put my trust; I will not fear what flesh can do unto me.
- 5Every day they wrest my words: all their thoughts are against me for evil.
- 6They gather themselves together, they hide themselves, they mark my steps, when they wait for my soul.
- 7Shall they escape by iniquity? in thine anger cast down the people, O God.
- 8Thou tellest my wanderings: put thou my tears into thy bottle: are they not in thy book?
- 9When I cry unto thee, then shall mine enemies turn back: this I know; for God is for me.
- 10In God will I praise his word: in the LORD will I praise his word.
- 11In God have I put my trust: I will not be afraid what man can do unto me.
- 12Thy vows are upon me, O God: I will render praises unto thee.
- 13For thou hast delivered my soul from death: wilt not thou deliver my feet from falling, that I may walk before God in the light of the living?
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