‏ Psalms 64

Prayer for Rescue from Secret Enemies.

For the music director. A Psalm of David.


1 Hear my voice, God, in amy
Or concern
complaint;
cProtect my life from dread of the enemy.

2 Hide me from the dsecret discussion of evildoers,
From the restlessness of ethe workers of injustice,

3 Who fhave sharpened their tongues like a sword.
They gaimed bitter speech as their arrows,

4 To hshoot
Lit in
from concealment at the innocent;
Suddenly they shoot at him, and jdo not fear.

5 They make firm for themselves an evil
Lit matter
purpose;
They
Lit tell of
talk of msetting snares secretly;
They say, “ nWho can see them?”

6 They
Or search out
devise injustices, saying,
“We are
Lit complete
ready with a well-conceived plot”;
For the
Or inward part
rinward thought and the heart of a person are
Or unsearchable
deep.


7 But tGod
Or shot
will shoot an arrow at them;
Suddenly
Or they were wounded; lit their wounds occurred
they will be wounded.

8 So
Or they make their tongue a stumbling for themselves
they
Or made
will ymake him stumble;
zTheir own tongue is against them;
All who see them will aashake their heads.

9 Then all people
Or feared
will acfear,
And they
Or declared
will aedeclare the work of God,
And
Or considered
will consider
Lit His work
what He has done.

10 The righteous person will be ahglad in the Lord and aitake refuge in Him;
And all the upright in heart will boast.
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