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.
To the Overseer. — A Psalm of David. Hear, O God, my voice, in my (meditation) From the fear of an enemy Thou keepest my life,
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.
Hidest me from the secret counsel of evil doers, From the tumult of workers of iniquity.
3 The hostile things they say [MTY] are like [SIM] [sharp] swords; their cruel words are like [SIM] arrows.
Who sharpened as a sword their tongue, They directed their arrow — a bitter word.
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 places the perfect, Suddenly they shoot him, and fear not.
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 strengthen for themselves an evil thing, They recount of the hiding of snares, They have said, 'Who doth look at it?'
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 search out perverse things, 'We perfected a searching search,' And the inward part of man, and the heart [are] deep.
7 But [it will be as though] God will shoot his arrows at them, and suddenly they will be wounded.
And God doth shoot them [with] an arrow, Sudden have been 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 they cause him to stumble, Against them [is] their own tongue, Every looker on them fleeth away.
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 all men fear, and declare the work of God, And His deed they have considered wisely.
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 righteous doth rejoice in Jehovah, And hath trusted in Him, And boast themselves do all the upright of heart!
