Psalms 64
64
Protection from Evildoers
For the choir director. A Davidic psalm.
1God, hear my voice when I complain. # Ps 55:2
Protect my life from the terror of the enemy. # Ps 140:1
2Hide me from the scheming of wicked people, # Ps 35:20; 37:12
from the mob of evildoers, # Ps 22:16; 26:5
3who sharpen their tongues like swords
and aim bitter words like arrows, # Ps 52:2; 57:4; Pr 25:18
4shooting from concealed places at the innocent.
They shoot at him suddenly and are not afraid. # Ps 10:8; 11:2
5They encourage each other in an evil plan; # Or thing; lit word # Or They hold fast to an evil purpose, or They establish for themselves an evil purpose
they talk about hiding traps and say,
“Who will see them? ” # Or us, or it # Ps 35:7; 140:5; 141:9
6They devise crimes and say,
“We have perfected a secret plan.” # Ps 21:11; 83:3
The inner man and the heart are mysterious.
7But God will shoot them with arrows;
suddenly, they will be wounded. # Ps 7:13; 45:5; 144:6
8They will be made to stumble;
their own tongues work against them.
All who see them will shake their heads. # Jr 18:16; 48:27; Lm 2:15
9Then everyone will fear
and will tell about God’s work,
for they will understand what He has done. # Ps 40:3
10The righteous one rejoices in the Lord
and takes refuge in Him;
all those who are upright in heart
will offer praise. # Ps 32:11; 68:3; 97:11-12
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Psalms 64
64
To the Overseer. — A Psalm of David.
1Hear, O God, my voice, in my meditation, From the fear of an enemy Thou keepest my life,
2Hidest me from the secret counsel of evil doers, From the tumult of workers of iniquity.
3Who sharpened as a sword their tongue, They directed their arrow — a bitter word.
4To shoot in secret places the perfect, Suddenly they shoot him, and fear not.
5They strengthen for themselves an evil thing, They recount of the hiding of snares, They have said, ‘Who doth look at it?’
6They search out perverse things, ‘We perfected a searching search,’ And the inward part of man, and the heart [are] deep.
7And God doth shoot them [with] an arrow, Sudden have been their wounds,
8And they cause him to stumble, Against them [is] their own tongue, Every looker on them fleeth away.
9And all men fear, and declare the work of God, And His deed they have considered wisely.
10The righteous doth rejoice in Jehovah, And hath trusted in Him, And boast themselves do all the upright of heart!
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