Psalms 64
1 For the choirmaster. A Psalm of David. Hear, O God, my voice of complaint; preserve my life from dread of the enemy.
`In Ebrewe thus, To the victorie, the salm of Dauid. `In Jerom `thus, To the ouercomer, the song of Dauid. God, here thou my preier, whanne Y biseche; delyuere thou my soule fro the drede of the enemy.
2 Hide me from the scheming of the wicked, from the mob of workers of iniquity,
Thou hast defendid me fro the couent of yuele doers; fro the multitude of hem that worchen wickidnesse.
3 who sharpen their tongues like swords and aim their bitter words like arrows,
For thei scharpiden her tungis as a swerd, thei benten a bowe, a bittir thing;
4 ambushing the innocent in seclusion, shooting suddenly, without fear.
for to schete in priuetees hym that is vnwemmed.
5 They hold fast to their evil purpose; they speak of hiding their snares. “Who will see them?” they say.
Sodeynli thei schulen schete hym, and thei schulen not drede; thei maden stidefast to hem silf a wickid word. Thei telden, that thei schulden hide snaris; thei seiden, Who schal se hem?
6 They devise injustice and say, “We have perfected a secret plan.” For the inner man and the heart are mysterious.
Thei souyten wickidnessis; thei souyten, and failiden in sekinge. A man neiyhe to deep herte;
7 But God will shoot them with arrows; suddenly they will be wounded.
and God schal be enhaunsid. The arowis of `litle men ben maad the woundis of hem;
8 They will be made to stumble, their own tongues turned against them. All who see will shake their heads.
and the tungis of hem ben maad sijk ayens hem. Alle men ben disturblid, that sien hem;
9 Then all mankind will fear and proclaim the work of God; so they will ponder what He has done.
and ech man dredde. And thei telden the werkis of God; and vndurstoden the dedis of God.
10 Let the righteous rejoice in the LORD and take refuge in Him; let all the upright in heart exult.
The iust man schal be glad in the Lord, and schal hope in hym; and alle men of riytful herte schulen be preisid.
