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title: "Commentary on the Psalms, Volume 5"
author: "John Calvin"
translator: "James Anderson"
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section: 77 of 159
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cite: "John Calvin, tr. James Anderson, Commentary on the Psalms, Volume 5, section 77. Scriptura (scriptura.si), https://scriptura.si/works/john-calvin-commentary-on-the-psalms-volume-5/77/"
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# Commentary on the Psalms, Volume 5

*John Calvin, tr. James Anderson*

Calvin on the Psalms, volume 5 of 5.

## 77. Psalm 56

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[¶0] To the Chief Musician upon, the silent dove in distant places. Michtam of David, when the Philistines took him in Gath

[¶1] 1 Have mercy upon me, O God, For swallow me up doth man; He daily assaulting doth oppress me.

[¶2] 2 Swallow me up do my enemies daily: Truly many strive to oppress me, O Jehovah, Most High!

[¶3] 3 In the day when I was afraid, I in thee did trust.

[¶4] 4 In God I will praise his word; In God have I trusted; I will not fear what flesh can do to me.

[¶5] 5 Every day my words disquiet me; Against me are all their thoughts for evil.

[¶6] 6 They assemble together, they hide themselves, My heels they watch, Because they desire my soul.

[¶7] 7 In their iniquity they think there is escape for them: In thy wrath the peoples thou wilt cast down, O God!

[¶8] 8 My wanderings thou numbereth, even thou: Put my tears into thy bottle; Are they not in thy register?

[¶9] 9 Then my enemies shall be turned back in the day when I cry: This I know, because God is with me.

[¶10] 10 In God will I praise [his] word; In Jehovah will I praise [his] word.

[¶11] 11 In God have I trusted; I will not fear what man can do to me.

[¶12] 12 Upon me, O God! are thy vows, I will render praises to thee.

[¶13] 13 For thou hast delivered my soul from death: Hast thou not also delivered my feet from falling? That I may walk before God in the light of the living.