54:2. Hear, O God, my prayer, and despise not my supplication: 54:3. Be attentive to me and hear me. I am grieved in my exercise; and am troubled, 54:4. 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. 54:5. My heart is troubled within me: and the fear of death is fallen upon me. 54:6. Fear and trembling are come upon me: and darkness hath covered me. 54:7. And I said: Who will give me wings like a dove, and I will fly and be at rest? 54:8. Lo, I have gone far off flying away; and I abode in the wilderness. 54:9. I waited for him that hath saved me from pusillanimity of spirit, and a storm. 54:10. Cast down, O Lord, and divide their tongues; for I have seen iniquity and contradiction in the city. 54:11. Day and night shall iniquity surround it upon its walls: and in the midst thereof are labour, 54:12. And injustice. And usury and deceit have not departed from its streets. 54:13. 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 my self from him. 54:14. But thou a man of one mind, my guide, and my familiar, 54:15. Who didst take sweetmeats together with me: in the house of God we walked with consent. 54:16. 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. Let death, etc. . .This, and such like imprecations which occur in the psalms, are delivered prophetically; that is, by way of foretelling the punishments which shall fall upon the wicked from divine justice, and approving the righteous ways of God: but not by way of ill will, or uncharitable curses, which the law of God disallows. 54:17. But I have cried to God: and the Lord will save me. 54:18. Evening and morning, and at noon I will speak and declare: and he shall hear my voice. 54:19. He shall redeem my soul in peace from them that draw near to me: for among many they were with me. Among many, etc. . .That is, they that drew near to attack me were many in company all combined to fight against me. 54:20. God shall hear, and the Eternal shall humble them. For there is no change with them, and they have not feared God: 54:21. He hath stretched forth his hand to repay. They have defiled his covenant, 54:22. 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. They are divided, etc. . .Dispersed, scattered, and brought to nothing, by the wrath of God; who looks with indignation on their wicked and deceitful ways. 54:23. Cast thy care upon the Lord, and he shall sustain thee: he shall not suffer the just to waver for ever. 54:24. 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.