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.

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 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 workers of iniquity.

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

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

4 To shoot in secret the undefiled.

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

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 strengthen an evil thing for themselves, They recount of the hiding of snares, They have said, “Who looks at it?”

6 They have searched after iniquities: they have failed in their search. Man shall come to 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 shall be exalted. The arrows of children are their wounds:

And God shoots them [with] an arrow, Their wounds have been sudden,

8 And their tongues against them are made weak. All that saw them were 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 declared the works of God: and understood his doings.

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

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

The righteous rejoice in YHWH, And have trusted in Him, And all the upright of heart boast!