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,

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.

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

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

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

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

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

To shoot in secret the undefiled.

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

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?

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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