56:4For thus saith the LORD unto the eunuchs that keep my sabbaths, and choose the things that please me, and take hold of my covenant;

56:4In God I will praise his word, in God I have put my trust; I will not fear what flesh can do unto me.

56:5Even unto them will I give in mine house and within my walls a place and a name better than of sons and of daughters: I will give them an everlasting name, that shall not be cut off.

56:5Every day they wrest my words: all their thoughts are against me for evil.

56:6They gather themselves together, they hide themselves, they mark my steps, when they wait for my soul.

56:6Also the sons of the stranger, that join themselves to the LORD, to serve him, and to love the name of the LORD, to be his servants, every one that keepeth the sabbath from polluting it, and taketh hold of my covenant;

56:7Shall they escape by iniquity? in thine anger cast down the people, O God.

56:7Even them will I bring to my holy mountain, and make them joyful in my house of prayer: their burnt offerings and their sacrifices shall be accepted upon mine altar; for mine house shall be called an house of prayer for all people.

56:8Thou tellest my wanderings: put thou my tears into thy bottle: are they not in thy book?

56:8The Lord GOD which gathereth the outcasts of Israel saith, Yet will I gather others to him, beside those that are gathered unto him.

56:9When I cry unto thee, then shall mine enemies turn back: this I know; for God is for me.

56:9All ye beasts of the field, come to devour, yea, all ye beasts in the forest.

56:10In God will I praise his word: in the LORD will I praise his word.

56:10His watchmen are blind: they are all ignorant, they are all dumb dogs, they cannot bark; sleeping, lying down, loving to slumber.

56:11In God have I put my trust: I will not be afraid what man can do unto me.

56:11Yea, they are greedy dogs which can never have enough, and they are shepherds that cannot understand: they all look to their own way, every one for his gain, from his quarter.

56:12Thy vows are upon me, O God: I will render praises unto thee.

56:12Come ye, say they, I will fetch wine, and we will fill ourselves with strong drink; and to morrow shall be as this day, and much more abundant.

56:13For thou hast delivered my soul from death: wilt not thou deliver my feet from falling, that I may walk before God in the light of the living?

57:1The righteous perisheth, and no man layeth it to heart: and merciful men are taken away, none considering that the righteous is taken away from the evil to come.

57:1(To the chief Musician, Altaschith, Michtam of David, when he fled from Saul in the cave.) Be merciful unto me, O God, be merciful unto me: for my soul trusteth in thee: yea, in the shadow of thy wings will I make my refuge, until these calamities be overpast.

57:2He shall enter into peace: they shall rest in their beds, each one walking in his uprightness.

57:2I will cry unto God most high; unto God that performeth all things for me.

57:3He shall send from heaven, and save me from the reproach of him that would swallow me up. Selah. God shall send forth his mercy and his truth.

57:3But draw near hither, ye sons of the sorceress, the seed of the adulterer and the whore.

57:4My soul is among lions: and I lie even among them that are set on fire, even the sons of men, whose teeth are spears and arrows, and their tongue a sharp sword.

57:4Against whom do ye sport yourselves? against whom make ye a wide mouth, and draw out the tongue? are ye not children of transgression, a seed of falsehood,

57:5Be thou exalted, O God, above the heavens; let thy glory be above all the earth.

57:5Enflaming yourselves with idols under every green tree, slaying the children in the valleys under the clifts of the rocks?

57:6Among the smooth stones of the stream is thy portion; they, they are thy lot: even to them hast thou poured a drink offering, thou hast offered a meat offering. Should I receive comfort in these?

57:6They have prepared a net for my steps; my soul is bowed down: they have digged a pit before me, into the midst whereof they are fallen themselves. Selah.

57:7Upon a lofty and high mountain hast thou set thy bed: even thither wentest thou up to offer sacrifice.

57:7My heart is fixed, O God, my heart is fixed: I will sing and give praise.

57:8Behind the doors also and the posts hast thou set up thy remembrance: for thou hast discovered thyself to another than me, and art gone up; thou hast enlarged thy bed, and made thee a covenant with them; thou lovedst their bed where thou sawest it.

57:8Awake up, my glory; awake, psaltery and harp: I myself will awake early.

57:9And thou wentest to the king with ointment, and didst increase thy perfumes, and didst send thy messengers far off, and didst debase thyself even unto hell.

57:9I will praise thee, O Lord, among the people: I will sing unto thee among the nations.

57:10Thou art wearied in the greatness of thy way; yet saidst thou not, There is no hope: thou hast found the life of thine hand; therefore thou wast not grieved.

57:10For thy mercy is great unto the heavens, and thy truth unto the clouds.

57:11And of whom hast thou been afraid or feared, that thou hast lied, and hast not remembered me, nor laid it to thy heart? have not I held my peace even of old, and thou fearest me not?

57:11Be thou exalted, O God, above the heavens: let thy glory be above all the earth.

57:12I will declare thy righteousness, and thy works; for they shall not profit thee.

57:13When thou criest, let thy companies deliver thee; but the wind shall carry them all away; vanity shall take them: but he that putteth his trust in me shall possess the land, and shall inherit my holy mountain;

57:14And shall say, Cast ye up, cast ye up, prepare the way, take up the stumblingblock out of the way of my people.

57:15For thus saith the high and lofty One that inhabiteth eternity, whose name is Holy; I dwell in the high and holy place, with him also that is of a contrite and humble spirit, to revive the spirit of the humble, and to revive the heart of the contrite ones.

57:16For I will not contend for ever, neither will I be always wroth: for the spirit should fail before me, and the souls which I have made.

57:17For the iniquity of his covetousness was I wroth, and smote him: I hid me, and was wroth, and he went on frowardly in the way of his heart.

57:18I have seen his ways, and will heal him: I will lead him also, and restore comforts unto him and to his mourners.

57:19I create the fruit of the lips; Peace, peace to him that is far off, and to him that is near, saith the LORD; and I will heal him.

57:20But the wicked are like the troubled sea, when it cannot rest, whose waters cast up mire and dirt.