The psalm forms a regular part of Jewish, Catholic, Lutheran, Anglican and other Protestant liturgies.

[5] Jerome, in the Vulgate, entitled this psalm Vox Christi adversus magnatos Judaeorum et Judam traditorem, meaning The voice of Christ against the chiefs of the Jews and the traitor Judas.

[13] In a 1999 article, Ulrike Bail used intertextual interpretive methods to read the psalm as a reference to the rape of Tamar.

[18] In the Church of England's Book of Common Prayer, this psalm is appointed to be read on the evening of the tenth day of the month.

[19] Heinrich Schütz set Psalm 55 in a metred version in German, "Erhör mein Gebet, du treuer Gott", SWV 152, as part of the Becker Psalter, first published in 1628.