Psalms 64
1 Unto the end. A Psalm of David. Hear, O God, my prayer of supplication. Rescue my soul from the fear of the enemy.
TO THE OVERSEER. A PSALM OF DAVID. Hear, O God, my voice, in my (meditation) You keep my life from the fear of an enemy,
2 You have protected me from the assembly of the malignant, from a multitude of workers of iniquity.
Hide me from the secret counsel of evildoers, From the tumult of workers of iniquity.
3 For they have sharpened their tongues like a sword; they have formed their bow into a bitter thing,
Who sharpened their tongue as a sword, They directed their arrow—a bitter word.
4 so that they may shoot arrows from hiding at the immaculate.
To shoot the perfect in secret places, Suddenly they shoot him, and do not fear.
5 They will suddenly shoot arrows at him, and they will not be afraid. They are resolute in their wicked talk. They have discussed hidden snares. They have said, “Who will see them?”
They strengthen an evil thing for themselves, They recount of the hiding of snares, They have said, “Who looks at it?”
6 They have been searching carefully for iniquities. Their exhaustive search has failed. Man will approach with a deep heart,
They search out perverse things, “We perfected a searching search,” And the inward part of man, and the heart, [are] deep.
7 and God will be exalted. The arrows of the little ones have become their wounds,
And God shoots them [with] an arrow, Their wounds have been sudden,
8 and their tongues have been weakened against them. All those who saw them have been troubled;
And they cause him to stumble, Their own tongue [is] against them, Every looker on them flees away.
9 and every man was afraid. And they announced the works of God, and they understood his acts.
And all men fear, and declare the work of God, And they have wisely considered His deed.
10 The just will rejoice in the Lord, and they will hope in him. And all the upright of heart will be praised.
The righteous rejoice in YHWH, And have trusted in Him, And all the upright of heart boast!
