# Psalm 56 ## Psalm 56:1 - [KJV] Be merciful unto me, O God: for man would swallow me up; he fighting daily oppresseth me. - [ASV] Be merciful unto me, O God; For man would swallow me up: All the day long he fighting oppresseth me. - [YLT] Favour me, O God, for man swallowed me up, All the day fighting he oppresseth me, ### Notes on Psalm 56:1 - ## Psalm 56:2 - [KJV] Mine enemies would daily swallow *me* up: for *they be* many that fight against me, O thou most High. - [ASV] Mine enemies would swallow me up all the day long; For they are many that fight proudly against me. - [YLT] Mine enemies have swallowed up all the day, For many *are* fighting against me, O most High, ### Notes on Psalm 56:2 - ## Psalm 56:3 - [KJV] What time I am afraid, I will trust in thee. - [ASV] What time I am afraid, I will put my trust in thee. - [YLT] The day I am afraid I am confident toward Thee. ### Notes on Psalm 56:3 - ## Psalm 56:4 - [KJV] In God I will praise his word, in God I have put my trust; I will not fear what flesh can do unto me. - [ASV] In God (I will praise his word), In God have I put my trust, I will not be afraid; What can flesh do unto me? - [YLT] In God I praise His word, in God I have trusted, I fear not what flesh doth to me. ### Notes on Psalm 56:4 - ## Psalm 56:5 - [KJV] Every day they wrest my words: all their thoughts *are* against me for evil. - [ASV] All the day long they wrest my words: All their thoughts are against me for evil. - [YLT] All the day they wrest my words, Concerning me all their thoughts *are* for evil, ### Notes on Psalm 56:5 - ## Psalm 56:6 - [KJV] They gather themselves together, they hide themselves, they mark my steps, when they wait for my soul. - [ASV] They gather themselves together, they hide themselves, They mark my steps, Even as they have waited for my soul. - [YLT] They assemble, they hide, they watch my heels, When they have expected my soul. ### Notes on Psalm 56:6 - ## Psalm 56:7 - [KJV] Shall they escape by iniquity? in *thine* anger cast down the people, O God. - [ASV] Shall they escape by iniquity? In anger cast down the peoples, O God. - [YLT] By iniquity they escape, In anger the peoples put down, O God. ### Notes on Psalm 56:7 - ## Psalm 56:8 - [KJV] Thou tellest my wanderings: put thou my tears into thy bottle: *are they* not in thy book? - [ASV] Thou numberest my wanderings: Put thou my tears into thy bottle; Are they not in thy book? - [YLT] My wandering Thou hast counted, Thou -- place Thou my tear in Thy bottle, Are they not in Thy book? ### Notes on Psalm 56:8 - ## Psalm 56:9 - [KJV] When I cry *unto thee*, then shall mine enemies turn back: this I know; for God *is* for me. - [ASV] Then shall mine enemies turn back in the day that I call: This I know, that God is for me. - [YLT] Then turn back do mine enemies in the day I call. This I have known, that God *is* for me. ### Notes on Psalm 56:9 - ## Psalm 56:10 - [KJV] In God will I praise *his* word: in the LORD will I praise *his* word. - [ASV] In God (I will praise *his* word), In Jehovah (I will praise *his* word), - [YLT] In God I praise the word, In Jehovah I praise the word. ### Notes on Psalm 56:10 - ## Psalm 56:11 - [KJV] In God have I put my trust: I will not be afraid what man can do unto me. - [ASV] In God have I put my trust, I will not be afraid; What can man do unto me? - [YLT] In God I trusted, I fear not what man doth to me, ### Notes on Psalm 56:11 - ## Psalm 56:12 - [KJV] Thy vows *are* upon me, O God: I will render praises unto thee. - [ASV] Thy vows are upon me, O God: I will render thank-offerings unto thee. - [YLT] On me, O God, *are* Thy vows, I repay thank-offerings to Thee. ### Notes on Psalm 56:12 - ## Psalm 56:13 - [KJV] For 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? - [ASV] For thou hast delivered my soul from death: *Hast thou* not *delivered* my feet from falling, That I may walk before God In the light of the living? - [YLT] For Thou hast delivered my soul from death, Dost Thou not my feet from falling? To walk habitually before God in the light of the living! ### Notes on Psalm 56:13 -