Give ear to my prayer, O God.
Hide not from my supplication.
Attend to me, answer me.
I'm overcome with trouble.
Distraught by the noise of the enemy, the oppression of the wicked.
They cause me to totter with their anger and their grudges.
My heart is in anguish within me.
The terrors of death fall upon me.
Fear and trembling attack me.
Horror now overwhelms me.
Know that I had wings just like a dove.
I would fly away and be at rest.
Yes, I would travel far and nestle in the wilderness.
Making haste to find a shelter from the raging wind and storm.
Lord, destroy and confuse their tongues.
I see violence and strife in the city.
Day and night they carouse around on its walls.
Mischief and trouble are within it.
Ruin is in its midst.
Oppression and fraudulent cheating now never leave its marketplace.
Know that I had wings just like a dove.
I would fly away and be at rest.
Yes, I would travel far and nestle in the wilderness.
Making haste to find a shelter from the raging wind and storm.
If a foe taunted me, I could bear it.
From an enemy's contempt I could hide.
But you, my equal, my friend, my trusted companion.
We held sweet converse together.
Walked in fellowship there in God's house.
But now desolation shall seize them.
They fall into Sheol.
Evil is in their dwelling and within their midst.
But I will call upon God and the Lord will save me.
Evening and morning and noon, I'll utter my case and I'll moan.
He will deliver my soul from the battle that I wage.
Cast your burden upon the Lord and He will sustain you.
He will not ever allow the righteous to be moved.
But you, O God, cast them down into the lowest pit.
Men of bloodshed and treachery shall not live out half their days.
Oh, that I had wings just like a dove.
I would fly away and be at rest.
Yes, I would travel far and nestle in the wilderness.
Making haste to find a shelter from the raging wind and storm.
Lord, I will trust in You.
I will trust in You.