Psalm 57

New King James Version

Prayer for Safety from Enemies^(A)

To the Chief Musician. Set to ^[a]“Do Not Destroy.” A Michtam of David ^(B)when he fled from Saul into the cave.

57 Be merciful to me, O God, be merciful to me!
For my soul trusts in You;
^(C)And in the shadow of Your wings I will make my refuge,
^(D)Until these calamities have passed by.

²I will cry out to God Most High,
To God ^(E)who performs all things for me.
³^(F)He shall send from heaven and save me;
He reproaches the one who ^[b]would swallow me up. Selah
God ^(G)shall send forth His mercy and His truth.

⁴My soul is among lions;
I lie among the sons of men
Who are set on fire,
^(H)Whose teeth are spears and arrows,
And their tongue a sharp sword.
⁵^(I)Be exalted, O God, above the heavens;
Let Your glory be above all the earth.

⁶^(J)They have prepared a net for my steps;
My soul is bowed down;
They have dug a pit before me;
Into the midst of it they themselves have fallen. Selah

⁷^(K)My heart is steadfast, O God, my heart is steadfast;
I will sing and give praise.
⁸Awake, ^(L)my glory!
Awake, lute and harp!
I will awaken the dawn.

⁹^(M)I will praise You, O Lord, among the peoples;
I will sing to You among the ^[c]nations.
¹⁰^(N)For Your mercy reaches unto the heavens,
And Your truth unto the clouds.

¹¹^(O)Be exalted, O God, above the heavens;
Let Your glory be above all the earth.

Footnotes

Psalm 57:1 Heb. Al Tashcheth
Psalm 57:3 snaps at or hounds me, or crushes me
Psalm 57:9 Gentiles

Psalm 95

New King James Version

A Call to Worship and Obedience

95 Oh come, let us sing to the Lord!
Let us shout joyfully to the Rock of our salvation.
²Let us come before His presence with thanksgiving;
Let us shout joyfully to Him with ^(A)psalms.
³For ^(B)the Lord is the great God,
And the great King above all gods.
⁴^[a]In His hand are the deep places of the earth;
The heights of the hills are His also.
⁵^(C)The sea is His, for He made it;
And His hands formed the dry land.

⁶Oh come, let us worship and bow down;
Let ^(D)us kneel before the Lord our Maker.
⁷For He is our God,
And ^(E)we are the people of His pasture,
And the sheep ^[b]of His hand.

^(F)Today, if you will hear His voice:
⁸“Do not harden your hearts, as in the ^[c]rebellion,
^(G)As in the day of ^[d]trial in the wilderness,
⁹When ^(H)your fathers tested Me;
They tried Me, though they ^(I)saw My work.
¹⁰For ^(J)forty years I was ^[e]grieved with that generation,
And said, ‘It is a people who go astray in their hearts,
And they do not know My ways.’
¹¹So ^(K)I swore in My wrath,
‘They shall not enter My rest.’ ”