
Day XI : Evening Prayer

59 - Eripe me de inimicis

1   Deliver me from my enemies, O God; 🞙
    defend me from those who rise up against me.

2   O deliver me from the evildoers, 🞙
    and save me from the bloodthirsty.

3   For behold, they lie in wait for my soul; 🞙
    the mighty are gathered against me, without any offense 
or fault of mine, O Lord.

4   They run and prepare themselves without cause. 🞙
    Arise therefore to help me, and behold.

5   Rise up, O Lord God of hosts, O God of Israel, to visit all the nations, 🞙
    and be not merciful to those who offend with malicious wickedness.

6   They go to and fro in the evening; 🞙
    they howl like dogs, and run about through the city.

7   Behold, they boast with their mouths, and taunts are on their lips, 🞙
    for they say, “Who will hear us?”

8   But you, O Lord, shall hold them in derision, 🞙
    and you shall laugh all the nations to scorn.

9   My strength I will ascribe unto you, 🞙
    for you are the God of my refuge.

10  God shows me his plenteous goodness, 🞙
    and God shall let me look in triumph upon my enemies.

11  Slay them not, lest my people forget it, 🞙
    but scatter them abroad by your might, and put them down, O Lord our shield.

12  For the sin of their mouth, and for the words of their lips, they shall be taken in their pride, 🞙
    because their talk is cursing and lies.

13  Consume them in your wrath; consume them, that they may perish, 🞙
    and know that it is God who rules in Jacob, and unto the ends of the world.

14  In the evening they will return, 🞙
    howl like dogs, and run about through the city.

15  They will run here and there for meat 🞙
    and growl if they are not satisfied.

16  As for me, I will sing of your power, and will praise your mercy early in the morning, 🞙
    for you have been my defense and refuge in the day of my trouble.

17  Unto you, O my strength, will I sing, 🞙
    for you, O God, are my refuge, and my merciful God.
