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 him that excelleth. A Psalme of David. Heare my voyce, O God, in my prayer: preserue my life from feare of the enemie.

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

Hide me from the conspiracie of the wicked, and from the rage of the workers of iniquitie.

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

Which haue whette their tongue like a sword, and shot for their arrowes bitter wordes.

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

To shoote at the vpright in secrete: they shoote at him suddenly, and feare 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 themselues in a wicked purpose: they commune together to lay snares priuilie, and say, Who shall 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 haue sought out iniquities, and haue accomplished that which they sought out, euen euery one his secret thoughtes, and the depth of his heart.

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

But God will shoote an arrowe at them suddenly: their strokes shalbe at once.

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

They shall cause their owne tongue to fall vpon them: and whosoeuer shall 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 see it, and declare the worke of God, and they shall vnderstand, what he hath wrought.

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

But the righteous shall be glad in the Lord, and trust in him: and all that are vpright of heart, shall reioyce.