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.

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

Thou hast defendid me fro the couent of yuele doers; fro the multitude of hem that worchen wickidnesse.

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

For thei scharpiden her tungis as a swerd, thei benten a bowe, a bittir thing;

4 To shoot in secret the undefiled.

for to schete in priuetees hym that is vnwemmed.

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?

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

Thei souyten wickidnessis; thei souyten, and failiden in sekinge. A man neiyhe to deep herte;

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

and God schal be enhaunsid. The arowis of `litle men ben maad the woundis of hem;

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

and the tungis of hem ben maad sijk ayens hem. Alle men ben disturblid, that sien hem;

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

and ech man dredde. And thei telden the werkis of God; and vndurstoden the dedis of God.

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

The iust man schal be glad in the Lord, and schal hope in hym; and alle men of riytful herte schulen be preisid.