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title: "Psalms 56 - Study King James Bible with geneva study bible"
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 1 Be merciful unto me, O God: for man would swallow me up; he fighting daily oppresseth me.*

 2 Mine enemies would daily swallow *me* up: for *they be* many that fight against me, O thou most High.*

 3 What time I am afraid, I will trust in thee.

 4 In God I will praise his word, in God I have put my trust; I will not fear what flesh can do unto me.

 5 Every day they wrest my words: all their thoughts *are* against me for evil.

 6 They gather themselves together, they hide themselves, they mark my steps, when they wait for my soul.

 7 Shall they escape by iniquity? in *thine* anger cast down the people, O God.

 8 Thou tellest my wanderings: put thou my tears into thy bottle: *are they* not in thy book?

 9 When I cry *unto thee*, then shall mine enemies turn back: this I know; for God *is* for me.

 10 In God will I praise *his* word: in the LORD will I praise *his* word.

 11 In God have I put my trust: I will not be afraid what man can do unto me.

 12 Thy vows *are* upon me, O God: I will render praises unto thee.

 13 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?
 
[Psalms 55](/study/psalms/55) [Psalms 57](/study/psalms/57)

## Commentary

 To verse 1
 
56:1 [To the chief Musician upon Jonathelemrechokim, Michtam of David, {a} when the Philistines took him in Gath.] Be merciful unto me, O God: for {b} man would swallow me up; he fighting daily oppresseth me. 

(a) Being chased by the fury of his enemies into a strange country, he was a dumb dove not seeking vengeance. 

(b) He shows that if God will help him, it must be now or never for all the world is against him and ready to devour him.

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