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,

God, listen to me as I tell you the things that I am worried about. I am afraid of my enemies; so save/rescue me from them.

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

Protect me from what wicked men are planning to do to me; protect me from that gang of men who do what is evil.

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

The hostile things they say [MTY] are like [SIM] [sharp] swords; their cruel words are like [SIM] arrows.

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

Without being afraid, they [lie about people and slander people] who have not done what is wrong, like someone who suddenly jumps up from where he is hiding and shoots [arrows] at his enemy [MET].

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

They encourage each other about doing the evil things that they are planning to do; they talk [with each other] about where they can set traps to catch people, and they think, “No one [RHQ] will see what we are doing,

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

because we have planned very well the crime that we are going to commit!” No one can fully understand what people can think and plan!

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

But [it will be as though] God will shoot his arrows at them, and suddenly they will be wounded.

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

Because of what they say [MTY], he will get rid of them, and then everyone who sees [what has happened to] them will shake their heads [to ridicule them].

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

And then everyone will be afraid [to sin because of what might happen to them, also]; they will tell others what God has done, and they themselves will think much about it.

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

Righteous people should rejoice because of what Yahweh [has done]; they should go to him to (find protection/be safe); and all those who are godly will praise him.