Psalms 64

1 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.

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

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

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

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

4 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].

To shoot in secret the undefiled.

5 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,

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 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!

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

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

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

8 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].

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

9 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.

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

10 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.

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