Psalms 64

DOUAI-RHEIMS	NEW JERUSALEM
1 Unto the end, a psalm for David.	1 [For the choirmaster Psalm Of David] Listen, God, to my voice as I plead, protect my life from fear ofthe enemy;
2 Hear, O God, my prayer, when I make supplication to thee : deliver my soul from the fear of the enemy.	2 hide me from the league of the wicked, from the gang of evil-doers.
3 Thou hast protected me from the assembly of the malignant; from the multitude of the workers of iniquity.	3 They sharpen their tongues like a sword, aim their arrows of poisonous abuse,
4 For they have whetted their tongues like a sword; they have bent their bow a bitter thing,	4 shoot at the innocent from cover, shoot suddenly, with nothing to fear.
5 to shoot in secret the undefiled.	5 They support each other in their evil designs, they discuss how to lay their snares. 'Who wil see us?'they say,
6 They will shoot at him on a sudden, and will not fear: they are resolute in wickedness. They have talked of hiding snares; they have said: Who shall see them?	6 'or wil penetrate our secrets?' He wil do that, he who penetrates human nature to its depths, thedepths of the heart.
7 They have searched after iniquities: they have failed in their search. Man shall come to a deep heart:	7 God has shot them with his arrow, sudden were their wounds.
8 and God shall be exalted. The arrows of children are their wounds:	8 He brings them down because of their tongue, and al who see them shake their heads.
9 and their tongues against them are made weak. All that saw them were troubled;	9 Everyone wil be awestruck, proclaim what God has done, and understand why he has done it.
10 and every man was afraid. And they declared the works of God: and understood his doings.	10 The upright wil rejoice in Yahweh, wil take refuge in him, and al the honest wil praise him.
11 The just shall rejoice in the Lord, and shall hope in him: and all the upright in heart shall be praised.