Latest / Pastor John Piper's answers / Psalm_056
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- 0:04Speaker 1: Psalm fifty six for the Chief Musician, to the tune
- 0:09Speaker 1: of Silent Dove in Distant Lands, a poem by David
- 0:14Speaker 1: when the Philistines seized him in Gath. Be merciful to
- 0:18Speaker 1: me God, for man wants to swallow me up all
- 0:22Speaker 1: day long. He attacks and oppresses me. My enemies want
- 0:26Speaker 1: to swallow me up all day long. For they are
- 0:29Speaker 1: many who fight proudly against me. When I am afraid,
- 0:33Speaker 1: I will put my trust in You. In God, I
- 0:37Speaker 1: praise his word. In God, I put my trust. I
- 0:40Speaker 1: will not be afraid. What can flesh do to me?
- 0:44Speaker 1: All day long? They twist my words? All their thoughts
- 0:47Speaker 1: are against me. For evil they conspire and lurk watching
- 0:52Speaker 1: my steps. They are eager to take my life. Shall
- 0:55Speaker 1: they escape by iniquity and anger? Cast down the peoples? God,
- 1:00Speaker 1: you number my wanderings. You put my tears into your bottle.
- 1:05Speaker 1: Aren't they in your book? Then my enemy shall turn
- 1:08Speaker 1: back in the day that I call. I know this
- 1:11Speaker 1: that God is for me. In God, I will praise
- 1:14Speaker 1: his word in Yahweh, I will praise his word. I
- 1:18Speaker 1: have put my trust in God. I will not be afraid.
- 1:22Speaker 1: What can man do to me? Your vows are on me. God,
- 1:26Speaker 1: I will give thank offerings to you, for you have
- 1:29Speaker 1: delivered my soul from death and prevented my feet from falling,
- 1:33Speaker 1: that I may walk before God in the light of
- 1:36Speaker 1: the living