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 Leader. A Psalm of David. Hear my voice, O God, in my complaint; preserve my life from the terror of the enemy.

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

Hide me from the council of evil-doers; from the tumult of the workers of iniquity;

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

Who have whet their tongue like a sword, and have aimed their arrow, a poisoned word;

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

That they may shoot in secret places at the blameless; 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 one another in an evil matter; they converse of laying snares secretly; they ask, who would 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 search out iniquities, they have accomplished a diligent search; even in the inward thought of every one, and the deep heart.

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

But God doth shoot at them with an arrow suddenly; thence are their wounds.

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

So they make their own tongue a stumbling unto themselves; all that see them shake the head.

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

And all men fear; and they declare the work of God, and understand His doing.

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

The righteous shall be glad in the LORD, and shall take refuge in Him; and all the upright in heart shall glory.