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.

To the Overseer. — A Psalm of David. Hear, O God, my voice, in my (meditation) From the fear of an enemy Thou keepest my life,

2 Hide me from the scheming of the wicked, from the mob of workers of iniquity,

Hidest me from the secret counsel of evil doers, From the tumult of workers of iniquity.

3 who sharpen their tongues like swords and aim their bitter words like arrows,

Who sharpened as a sword their tongue, They directed their arrow — a bitter word.

4 ambushing the innocent in seclusion, shooting suddenly, without fear.

To shoot in secret places the perfect, Suddenly they shoot him, and fear not.

5 They hold fast to their evil purpose; they speak of hiding their snares. “Who will see them?” they say.

They strengthen for themselves an evil thing, They recount of the hiding of snares, They have said, 'Who doth look at it?'

6 They devise injustice and say, “We have perfected a secret plan.” For the inner man and the heart are mysterious.

They search out perverse things, 'We perfected a searching search,' And the inward part of man, and the heart [are] deep.

7 But God will shoot them with arrows; suddenly they will be wounded.

And God doth shoot them [with] an arrow, Sudden have been their wounds,

8 They will be made to stumble, their own tongues turned against them. All who see will shake their heads.

And they cause him to stumble, Against them [is] their own tongue, Every looker on them fleeth away.

9 Then all mankind will fear and proclaim the work of God; so they will ponder what He has done.

And all men fear, and declare the work of God, And His deed they have considered wisely.

10 Let the righteous rejoice in the LORD and take refuge in Him; let all the upright in heart exult.

The righteous doth rejoice in Jehovah, And hath trusted in Him, And boast themselves do all the upright of heart!