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Psalm 55

¹Give ear to my prayer, O God; and hide not thyself from my supplication.
²Attend unto me, and hear me: I mourn in my complaint, and make a noise;
³Because of the voice of the enemy, because of the oppression of the wicked: for they cast iniquity upon me, and in wrath they hate me.
⁴My heart is sore pained within me: and the terrors of death are fallen upon me.
⁵Fearfulness and trembling are come upon me, and horror hath overwhelmed me.
⁶And I said, Oh that I had wings like a dove! for then would I fly away, and be at rest.
⁷Lo, then would I wander far off, and remain in the wilderness. Selah.
⁸I would hasten my escape from the windy storm and tempest.
⁹Destroy, O Lord, and divide their tongues: for I have seen violence and strife in the city.
¹⁰Day and night they go about it upon the walls thereof: mischief also and sorrow are in the midst of it.
¹¹Wickedness is in the midst thereof: deceit and guile depart not from her streets.
¹²For it was not an enemy that reproached me; then I could have borne it: neither was it he that hated me that did magnify himself against me; then I would have hid myself from him:
¹³But it was thou, a man mine equal, my guide, and mine acquaintance.
¹⁴We took sweet counsel together, and walked unto the house of God in company.
¹⁵Let death seize upon them, and let them go down quick into hell: for wickedness is in their dwellings, and among them.
¹⁶As for me, I will call upon God; and the Lord shall save me.
¹⁷Evening, and morning, and at noon, will I pray, and cry aloud: and he shall hear my voice.
¹⁸He hath delivered my soul in peace from the battle that was against me: for there were many with me.
¹⁹God shall hear, and afflict them, even he that abideth of old. Selah. Because they have no changes, therefore they fear not God.
²⁰He hath put forth his hands against such as be at peace with him: he hath broken his covenant.
²¹The words of his mouth were smoother than butter, but war was in his heart: his words were softer than oil, yet were they drawn swords.
²²Cast thy burden upon the Lord, and he shall sustain thee: he shall never suffer the righteous to be moved.
²³But thou, O God, shalt bring them down into the pit of destruction: bloody and deceitful men shall not live out half their days; but I will trust in thee.

⁸And in the fifth month, on the seventh day of the month, which is the nineteenth year of king Nebuchadnezzar king of Babylon, came Nebuzaradan, captain of the guard, a servant of the king of Babylon, unto Jerusalem:
⁹And he burnt the house of the Lord, and the king’s house, and all the houses of Jerusalem, and every great man’s house burnt he with fire.
¹⁰And all the army of the Chaldees, that were with the captain of the guard, brake down the walls of Jerusalem round about.
¹¹Now the rest of the people that were left in the city, and the fugitives that fell away to the king of Babylon, with the remnant of the multitude, did Nebuzaradan the captain of the guard carry away.
²²And as for the people that remained in the land of Judah, whom Nebuchadnezzar king of Babylon had left, even over them he made Gedaliah the son of Ahikam, the son of Shaphan, ruler.
²⁵But it came to pass in the seventh month, that Ishmael the son of Nethaniah, the son of Elishama, of the seed royal, came, and ten men with him, and smote Gedaliah, that he died, and the Jews and the Chaldees that were with him at Mizpah.
²⁶And all the people, both small and great, and the captains of the armies, arose, and came to Egypt: for they were afraid of the Chaldees.

¹⁸Wives, submit yourselves unto your own husbands, as it is fit in the Lord.
¹⁹Husbands, love your wives, and be not bitter against them.
²⁰Children, obey your parents in all things: for this is well pleasing unto the Lord.
²¹Fathers, provoke not your children to anger, lest they be discouraged.
²²Servants, obey in all things your masters according to the flesh; not with eyeservice, as menpleasers; but in singleness of heart, fearing God;
²³And whatsoever ye do, do it heartily, as to the Lord, and not unto men;
²⁴Knowing that of the Lord ye shall receive the reward of the inheritance: for ye serve the Lord Christ.
²⁵But he that doeth wrong shall receive for the wrong which he hath done: and there is no respect of persons.

4Masters, give unto your servants that which is just and equal; knowing that ye also have a Master in heaven.
²Continue in prayer, and watch in the same with thanksgiving;
³Withal praying also for us, that God would open unto us a door of utterance, to speak the mystery of Christ, for which I am also in bonds:
⁴That I may make it manifest, as I ought to speak.
⁵Walk in wisdom toward them that are without, redeeming the time.
⁶Let your speech be alway with grace, seasoned with salt, that ye may know how ye ought to answer every man.