Psalms 56:1

He will repay the evil to my enemies. Destroy them in your truth.

Yahweh, truly I am your servant. I am your servant, the son of your servant girl. You have freed me from my chains.

He has swallowed up death forever! The Lord Yahweh will wipe away tears from off all faces. He will take the reproach of his people away from off all the earth, for Yahweh has spoken it.

Is this man Coniah a despised broken vessel? Is he a vessel in which no one delights? Why are they cast out, he and his offspring, and cast into a land which they don’t know?

and what he did to Dathan and Abiram, the sons of Eliab, the son of Reuben—how the earth opened its mouth and swallowed them up, with their households, their tents, and every living thing that followed them, in the middle of all Israel;

Now the Hebrews who were with the Philistines before, and who went up with them into the camp, from all around, even they also turned to be with the Israelites who were with Saul and Jonathan.

Why do you hide your face, and consider me your enemy?

He has torn me in his wrath and persecuted me. He has gnashed on me with his teeth. My adversary sharpens his eyes on me.

All darkness is laid up for his treasures. An unfanned fire will devour him. It will consume that which is left in his tent.

Have all the workers of iniquity no knowledge, who eat up my people as they eat bread, and don’t call on Yahweh?

To you, Yahweh, I call. My rock, don’t be deaf to me, lest, if you are silent to me, I would become like those who go down into the pit.

Like the profane mockers in feasts, they gnashed their teeth at me.

Yes, they opened their mouth wide against me. They said, “Aha! Aha! Our eye has seen it!”

But now you rejected us, and brought us to dishonor, and don’t go out with our armies.

Yahweh is on my side among those who help me. Therefore I will look in triumph at those who hate me.

Yahweh has done that which he planned. He has fulfilled his word that he commanded in the days of old. He has thrown down, and has not pitied. He has caused the enemy to rejoice over you. He has exalted the horn of your adversaries.

“You have covered us with anger and pursued us. You have killed. You have not pitied.

“All our enemies have opened their mouth wide against us.

“For, behold, the day comes, it burns as a furnace; and all the proud, and all who work wickedness, will be stubble; and the day that comes will burn them up,” says Yahweh of Armies, “that it shall leave them neither root nor branch.

At midnight, Yahweh struck all the firstborn in the land of Egypt, from the firstborn of Pharaoh who sat on his throne to the firstborn of the captive who was in the dungeon, and all the firstborn of livestock.

For you meet him with the blessings of goodness. You set a crown of fine gold on his head.

They open their mouths wide against me, lions tearing prey and roaring.

For he has delivered me out of all trouble. My eye has seen triumph over my enemies.

My enemies want to swallow me up all day long, for they are many who fight proudly against me.

Be merciful to me, God, be merciful to me, for my soul takes refuge in you. Yes, in the shadow of your wings, I will take refuge, until disaster has passed.

Haven’t you, God, rejected us? You don’t go out with our armies, God.

and struck all the firstborn in Egypt, the chief of their strength in the tents of Ham.

He led them safely, so that they weren’t afraid, but the sea overwhelmed their enemies.

Turn us again, God. Cause your face to shine, and we will be saved.

You have broken down all his hedges. You have brought his strongholds to ruin.

My eye has also seen my enemies. My ears have heard of the wicked enemies who rise up against me.

His heart is established. He will not be afraid in the end when he sees his adversaries.

He struck the firstborn of Egypt, both of man and animal.

Let burning coals fall on them. Let them be thrown into the fire, into miry pits, from where they never rise.

He has brought the high fortress of your walls down, laid low, and brought to the ground, even to the dust.

Therefore I will profane the princes of the sanctuary; and I will make Jacob a curse, and Israel an insult.”

I will make them to pass with your enemies into a land which you don’t know; for a fire is kindled in my anger, which will burn on you.”

But Yahweh of Armies, who tests the righteous, who sees the heart and the mind, let me see your vengeance on them, for I have revealed my cause to you.

All your lovers have forgotten you. They don’t seek you. For I have wounded you with the wound of an enemy, with the chastisement of a cruel one, for the greatness of your iniquity, because your sins were increased.

“Nebuchadnezzar the king of Babylon has devoured me. He has crushed me. He has made me an empty vessel. He has, like a monster, swallowed me up. He has filled his mouth with my delicacies. He has cast me out.

Then he will turn his face toward the fortresses of his own land; but he will stumble and fall, and won’t be found.

Death and Hades were thrown into the lake of fire. This is the second death, the lake of fire.

He will wipe away every tear from their eyes. Death will be no more; neither will there be mourning, nor crying, nor pain, any more. The first things have passed away.”

and all the firstborn in the land of Egypt shall die, from the firstborn of Pharaoh who sits on his throne, even to the firstborn of the female servant who is behind the mill, and all the firstborn of livestock.

The waters returned, and covered the chariots and the horsemen, even all Pharaoh’s army that went in after them into the sea. There remained not so much as one of them.

Thus Yahweh saved Israel that day out of the hand of the Egyptians; and Israel saw the Egyptians dead on the seashore.

Though men may rise up to pursue you, and to seek your soul, yet the soul of my lord will be bound in the bundle of life with Yahweh your God. He will sling out the souls of your enemies, as from the hollow of a sling.

David said, “As Yahweh lives, Yahweh will strike him; or his day shall come to die; or he shall go down into battle and perish.

When David and his men had come to Ziklag on the third day, the Amalekites had made a raid on the South, and on Ziklag, and had struck Ziklag, and burned it with fire,

David came to Baal Perazim, and David struck them there. Then he said, “Yahweh has broken my enemies before me, like the breach of waters.” Therefore he called the name of that place Baal Perazim.

He killed ten thousand Edomites in the Valley of Salt, and took Sela by war, and called its name Joktheel, to this day.

David defeated Hadadezer king of Zobah to Hamath, as he went to establish his dominion by the river Euphrates.

Why do you persecute me as God, and are not satisfied with my flesh?

Then he will speak to them in his anger, and terrify them in his wrath:

Preserve me, God, for I take refuge in you.

Keep me as the apple of your eye. Hide me under the shadow of your wings,

Smoke went out of his nostrils. Consuming fire came out of his mouth. Coals were kindled by it.

When evildoers came at me to eat up my flesh, even my adversaries and my foes, they stumbled and fell.

Our God comes, and does not keep silent. A fire devours before him. It is very stormy around him.

God will likewise destroy you forever. He will take you up, and pluck you out of your tent, and root you out of the land of the living.

He will send from heaven, and save me, he rebukes the one who is pursuing me. God will send out his loving kindness and his truth.

God, why have you rejected us forever? Why does your anger smolder against the sheep of your pasture?

Be merciful to me, Lord, for I call to you all day long.

He sent signs and wonders into the middle of you, Egypt, on Pharaoh, and on all his servants.

Therefore Sheol has enlarged its desire, and opened its mouth without measure; and their glory, their multitude, their pomp, and he who rejoices among them, descend into it.

For it is a day of confusion, and of treading down, and of perplexity, from the Lord, Yahweh of Armies, in the valley of vision, a breaking down of the walls, and a crying to the mountains.”

I was angry with my people. I profaned my inheritance and gave them into your hand. You showed them no mercy. You laid a very heavy yoke on the aged.

Pour out your wrath on the nations that don’t know you, and on the families that don’t call on your name; for they have devoured Jacob. Yes, they have devoured him, consumed him, and have laid waste his habitation.

“The youth and the old man lie on the ground in the streets. My virgins and my young men have fallen by the sword. You have killed them in the day of your anger. You have slaughtered, and not pitied.

As for me also, my eye won’t spare, neither will I have pity, but I will bring their way on their head.”

But the princes of the Philistines were angry with him; and the princes of the Philistines said to him, “Make the man return, that he may go back to his place where you have appointed him, and let him not go down with us to battle, lest in the battle he become an adversary to us. For with what should this fellow reconcile himself to his lord? Should it not be with the heads of these men?

Answer me when I call, God of my righteousness. Give me relief from my distress. Have mercy on me, and hear my prayer.

You will make them as a fiery furnace in the time of your anger. Yahweh will swallow them up in his wrath. The fire shall devour them.

My God, I have trusted in you. Don’t let me be shamed. Don’t let my enemies triumph over me.

Have mercy on me, Yahweh, for I am in distress. My eye, my soul, and my body waste away with grief.

Don’t let them say in their heart, “Aha! That’s the way we want it!” Don’t let them say, “We have swallowed him up!”

Do you indeed speak righteousness, silent ones? Do you judge blamelessly, you sons of men?

Deliver me from my enemies, my God. Set me on high from those who rise up against me.

My God will go before me with his loving kindness. God will let me look at my enemies in triumph.

God, you have rejected us. You have broken us down. You have been angry. Restore us, again.

The earth opened and swallowed up Dathan, and covered the company of Abiram.

then they would have swallowed us up alive, when their wrath was kindled against us;

to him who struck down the Egyptian firstborn; for his loving kindness endures forever;

but overthrew Pharaoh and his army in the Red Sea; for his loving kindness endures forever:

In your loving kindness, cut off my enemies, and destroy all those who afflict my soul, For I am your servant.

Let’s swallow them up alive like Sheol, and whole, like those who go down into the pit.

The Lord has swallowed up all the dwellings of Jacob without pity. He has thrown down in his wrath the strongholds of the daughter of Judah. He has brought them down to the ground. He has profaned the kingdom and its princes.

The Lord has become as an enemy. He has swallowed up Israel. He has swallowed up all her palaces. He has destroyed his strongholds. He has multiplied mourning and lamentation in the daughter of Judah.

All your enemies have opened their mouth wide against you. They hiss and gnash their teeth. They say, “We have swallowed her up. Certainly this is the day that we looked for. We have found it. We have seen it.”

Israel is swallowed up. Now they are among the nations like a worthless thing.

Hear this, you who desire to swallow up the needy, and cause the poor of the land to fail,

But when this perishable body will have become imperishable, and this mortal will have put on immortality, then what is written will happen: “Death is swallowed up in victory.”