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,

`In Ebrewe thus, To the victorie, the salm of Dauid. `In Jerom `thus, To the ouercomer, the song of Dauid. God, here thou my preier, whanne Y biseche; delyuere thou my soule fro the drede of the enemy.

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

Thou hast defendid me fro the couent of yuele doers; fro the multitude of hem that worchen wickidnesse.

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

For thei scharpiden her tungis as a swerd, thei benten a bowe, a bittir thing;

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

for to schete in priuetees hym that is vnwemmed.

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

Sodeynli thei schulen schete hym, and thei schulen not drede; thei maden stidefast to hem silf a wickid word. Thei telden, that thei schulden hide snaris; thei seiden, Who schal se hem?

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

Thei souyten wickidnessis; thei souyten, and failiden in sekinge. A man neiyhe to deep herte;

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

and God schal be enhaunsid. The arowis of `litle men ben maad the woundis of hem;

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

and the tungis of hem ben maad sijk ayens hem. Alle men ben disturblid, that sien hem;

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

and ech man dredde. And thei telden the werkis of God; and vndurstoden the dedis of God.

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

The iust man schal be glad in the Lord, and schal hope in hym; and alle men of riytful herte schulen be preisid.