Psalms 64

1 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,

To the chief Musician. A Psalm of David. Hear, O God, my voice in my plaint; preserve my life from fear of the enemy:

2 Hidest me from the secret counsel of evil doers, From the tumult of workers of iniquity.

Hide me from the secret counsel of evil-doers, from the tumultuous crowd of the workers of iniquity,

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

Who have sharpened their tongue like a sword, [and] have aimed their arrow, a bitter word;

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

That they may shoot in secret at the perfect: suddenly do they shoot at him, and fear not.

5 They strengthen for themselves an evil thing, They recount of the hiding of snares, They have said, 'Who doth look at it?'

They encourage themselves in an evil matter, they concert to hide 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 devise iniquities: We have it ready, the plan is diligently sought out. And each one's inward [thought] and heart is deep.

7 And God doth shoot them [with] an arrow, Sudden have been their wounds,

But God will shoot an arrow at them: suddenly are they wounded;

8 And they cause him to stumble, Against them [is] their own tongue, Every looker on them fleeth away.

By their own tongue they are made to fall over one another: all that see them shall flee away.

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

And all men shall fear, and shall declare God's doing; and they shall wisely consider his work.

10 The righteous doth rejoice in Jehovah, And hath trusted in Him, And boast themselves do all the upright of heart!

The righteous shall rejoice in Jehovah, and trust in him; and all the upright in heart shall glory.