When I am afraid,
    I (A)put my trust in you.
In God, whose word I praise,
    in God I trust; (B)I shall not be afraid.
    What can flesh do to me?

All day long they injure my cause;[a]
    all their thoughts are against me for evil.
They (C)stir up strife, they (D)lurk;
    they (E)watch my steps,
    as they have waited for my life.
For their crime will they escape?
    (F)In wrath (G)cast down the peoples, O God!

You have kept count of my tossings;[b]
    (H)put my tears in your bottle.
    (I)Are they not in your book?
Then my enemies will turn back
    (J)in the day when I call.
    This I know, that[c] (K)God is for me.
10 In God, whose word I praise,
    in the Lord, whose word I praise,
11 in God I trust; (L)I shall not be afraid.
    What can man do to me?

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Footnotes

  1. Psalm 56:5 Or they twist my words
  2. Psalm 56:8 Or wanderings
  3. Psalm 56:9 Or because

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