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 my voice, O God, in my complaint: preserve my life from the dread 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 assault of the workers of wickedness;

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

Who whet their tongue like a sword, who aim with their arrow, the bitter word:

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

To shoot in secret at the innocent; 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 plan; they tell secretly of laying 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 search out iniquities; “We are ready with the carefully searched out device:” and the inward thought and heart of each is deeply [hidden].

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

But God shooteth at them suddenly [his] arrow; —[thence] are come their wounds.

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

And their own tongues will stumble over themselves: all that look on them will shake their head.

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

All men shall fear, and shall declare the deeds of God, and understand his works.

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

The righteous shall rejoice in the Lord, and shall trust in him; and all the upright in heart shall glorify themselves.