Cast Your Burden upon the LORD (2 Samuel 17:15–29)
1 CPDV Unto the end. In verses, the understanding of David. Listen to my prayer, O God, and despise not my supplication. BSB BSB: For the choirmaster. With stringed instruments. A Maskil of David. Listen to my prayer, O God, and do not ignore my plea.
2 CPDV Be attentive to me, and heed me. I have been grieved in my training, and I have been disturbed BSB BSB: Attend to me and answer me. I am restless in my complaint, and distraught
3 CPDV at the voice of the adversary and at the tribulation of the sinner. For they have diverted iniquities toward me, and they have been harassing me with rage. BSB BSB: at the voice of the enemy, at the pressure of the wicked. For they bring down disaster upon me and resent me in their anger.
4 CPDV My heart has become disturbed within me, and the dread of death has fallen over me. BSB BSB: My heart pounds within me, and the terrors of death assail me.
5 CPDV Fear and trembling have overwhelmed me, and darkness has buried me. BSB BSB: Fear and trembling grip me, and horror has overwhelmed me.
6 CPDV And I said, “Who will give me wings like the dove, so that I may fly away and take rest?” BSB BSB: I said, “Oh, that I had wings like a dove! I would fly away and find rest.
7 CPDV Behold, I have fled far away, and I linger in solitude. BSB BSB: How far away I would flee! In the wilderness I would remain. Selah
8 CPDV I waited for him who saved me from a weak-minded spirit and from a tempest. BSB BSB: I would hurry to my shelter, far from this raging tempest.”
9 CPDV Cast them down, O Lord, and divide their tongues. For I have seen iniquity and contradiction in the city. BSB BSB: O Lord, confuse and confound their speech, for I see violence and strife in the city.
10 CPDV Day and night, iniquity will surround it upon its walls, and hardship is in its midst, BSB BSB: Day and night they encircle the walls, while malice and trouble lie within.
11 CPDV with injustice. And usury and deceit have not fallen away from its streets. BSB BSB: Destruction is within; oppression and deceit never leave the streets.
12 CPDV For if my enemy had spoken evil about me, certainly, I would have sustained it. And if he who hated me had been speaking great things against me, I would perhaps have hidden myself from him. BSB BSB: For it is not an enemy who insults me; that I could endure. It is not a foe who rises against me; from him I could hide.
13 CPDV Truly, you are a man of one mind: my leader and my acquaintance, BSB BSB: But it is you, a man like myself, my companion and close friend.
14 CPDV who took sweet food together with me. In the house of God, we walked side-by-side. BSB BSB: We shared sweet fellowship together; we walked with the crowd into the house of God.
15 CPDV Let death come upon them, and let them descend alive into Hellfire. For there is wickedness in their dwellings, in their midst. BSB BSB: Let death seize them by surprise; let them go down to Sheol alive, for evil is with them in their homes.
16 CPDV But I have cried out to God, and the Lord will save me. BSB BSB: But I call to God, and the LORD saves me.
17 CPDV Evening and morning and midday, I will discourse and announce, and he will heed my voice. BSB BSB: Morning, noon, and night, I cry out in distress, and He hears my voice.
18 CPDV He will redeem my soul in peace from those who draw near to me. For, among the many, they were with me. BSB BSB: He redeems my soul in peace from the battle waged against me, even though many oppose me.
19 CPDV God will hear, and He who is before time will humble them. For there is no change with them, and they have not feared God. BSB BSB: God will hear and humiliate them—the One enthroned for the ages—Selah because they do not change and they have no fear of God.
20 CPDV He has stretched forth his hand in retribution. They have contaminated his covenant. BSB BSB: My companion attacks his friends; he violates his covenant.
21 CPDV They were divided by the wrath of his countenance, and his heart has drawn near. His words are smoother than oil, and they are arrows. BSB BSB: His speech is smooth as butter, but war is in his heart. His words are softer than oil, yet they are swords unsheathed.
22 CPDV Cast your cares upon the Lord, and he will nurture you. He will not allow the just to be tossed about forever. BSB BSB: Cast your burden upon the LORD and He will sustain you; He will never let the righteous be shaken.
23 CPDV Truly, O God, you will lead them away into the well of death. Bloody and deceitful men will not divide their days in half. But I will hope in you, O Lord. BSB BSB: But You, O God, will bring them down to the Pit of destruction; men of bloodshed and deceit will not live out half their days. But I will trust in You.
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