Psalms 64

1 Unto the end, a psalm for David. Hear, O God, my prayer, when I make supplication to thee: deliver my soul from the fear of the enemy.

Hear my voice, O God, in my complaint. Preserve my life from fear of the enemy.

2 Thou hast protected me from the assembly of the malignant; from the multitude of the workers of iniquity.

Hide me from the secret counsel of evildoers, from the tumult of the workers of iniquity,

3 For they have whetted their tongues like a sword; they have bent their bow a bitter thing,

who have whet their tongue like a sword, and have aimed their arrows, even bitter words,

4 To shoot in secret the undefiled.

that they may shoot in secret places at a blameless man. Suddenly do they shoot at him, and fear not.

5 They will shoot at him on a sudden, and will not fear: they are resolute in wickedness. They have talked of hiding snares; they have said: Who shall see them?

They encourage themselves in an evil purpose. They converse of laying snares secretly. They say, Who will see them?

6 They have searched after iniquities: they have failed in their search. Man shall come to a deep heart:

They search out iniquities, saying, We have accomplished a diligent search. And the inward part of man and the heart are deep.

7 And God shall be exalted. The arrows of children are their wounds:

But God will shoot at them. With an arrow they shall suddenly be wounded.

8 And their tongues against them are made weak. All that saw them were troubled;

So they shall be made to stumble, their own tongue being against them. All who see them shall wag the head.

9 And every man was afraid. And they declared the works of God: and understood his doings.

And all men shall fear. And they shall declare the work of God, and shall wisely consider of his doing.

10 The just shall rejoice in the Lord, and shall hope in him: and all the upright in heart shall be praised.

A righteous man shall be glad in Jehovah, and shall take refuge in him. And all the upright in heart shall glory.