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,

To the chief Musician. A Psalm of David. Hear, O God, my voice in my plaint; preserve my life from fear of the enemy:

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

Hide me from the secret counsel of evil-doers, from the tumultuous crowd of the workers of iniquity,

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

Who have sharpened their tongue like a sword, [and] have aimed their arrow, a bitter word;

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

That they may shoot in secret at the perfect: suddenly do they shoot at him, and fear not.

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

They encourage themselves in an evil matter, they concert to hide snares; they say, Who will see them?

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

They devise iniquities: We have it ready, the plan is diligently sought out. And each one's inward [thought] and heart is deep.

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

But God will shoot an arrow at them: suddenly are they wounded;

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

By their own tongue they are made to fall over one another: all that see them shall flee away.

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

And all men shall fear, and shall declare God's doing; and they shall wisely consider his work.

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

The righteous shall rejoice in Jehovah, and trust in him; and all the upright in heart shall glory.