Cast Your Burden upon the LORD (2 Samuel 17:15–29)
1 DRA Unto the end, in verses, understanding for David. Hear, O God, my prayer, 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 DRA Be attentive to me and hear me. I am grieved in my exercise; and am troubled, BSB BSB: Attend to me and answer me. I am restless in my complaint, and distraught
3 DRA At the voice of the enemy, and at the tribulation of the sinner. For they have cast iniquities upon me: and in wrath they were troublesome to me. 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 DRA My heart is troubled within me: and the fear of death is fallen upon me. BSB BSB: My heart pounds within me, and the terrors of death assail me.
5 DRA Fear and trembling are come upon me: and darkness hath covered me. BSB BSB: Fear and trembling grip me, and horror has overwhelmed me.
6 DRA And I said: Who will give me wings like a dove, and I will fly and be at rest? BSB BSB: I said, “Oh, that I had wings like a dove! I would fly away and find rest.
7 DRA Lo, I have gone far off flying away; and I abode in the wilderness. BSB BSB: How far away I would flee! In the wilderness I would remain. Selah
8 DRA I waited for him that hath saved me from pusillanimity of spirit, and a storm. BSB BSB: I would hurry to my shelter, far from this raging tempest.”
9 DRA Cast 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 DRA Day and night shall iniquity surround it upon its walls: and in the midst thereof are labour, BSB BSB: Day and night they encircle the walls, while malice and trouble lie within.
11 DRA And injustice. And usury and deceit have not departed from its streets. BSB BSB: Destruction is within; oppression and deceit never leave the streets.
12 DRA For if my enemy had reviled me, I would verily have borne with it. And if he that hated me had spoken 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 DRA But thou a man of one mind, my guide, and my familiar, BSB BSB: But it is you, a man like myself, my companion and close friend.
14 DRA Who didst take sweetmeats together with me: in the house of God we walked with consent. BSB BSB: We shared sweet fellowship together; we walked with the crowd into the house of God.
15 DRA Let death come upon them, and let them go down alive into hell. For there is wickedness in their dwellings: in the midst of them. BSB BSB: Let death seize them by surprise; let them go down to Sheol alive, for evil is with them in their homes.
16 DRA But I have cried to God: and the Lord will save me. BSB BSB: But I call to God, and the LORD saves me.
17 DRA Evening and morning, and at noon I will speak and declare: and he shall hear my voice. BSB BSB: Morning, noon, and night, I cry out in distress, and He hears my voice.
18 DRA He shall redeem my soul in peace from them that draw near to me: for among 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 DRA God shall hear, and the Eternal shall 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 DRA He hath stretched forth his hand to repay. They have defiled his covenant, BSB BSB: My companion attacks his friends; he violates his covenant.
21 DRA They are divided by the wrath Of his countenance, and his heart hath drawn near. His words are smoother than oil, and the same are darts. 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 DRA Cast thy care upon the Lord, and he shall sustain thee: he shall not suffer the just to waver for ever. BSB BSB: Cast your burden upon the LORD and He will sustain you; He will never let the righteous be shaken.
23 DRA But 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, 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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