Psalms 64

1 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,

For the choirmaster. A Psalm of David. Hear, O God, my voice of complaint; preserve my life from dread of the enemy.

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

8 And they cause him to stumble, Their own tongue [is] against them, Every looker on them flees away.

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

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

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

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

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