Psalms 64

¹ [For the choirmaster Psalm Of David] Listen, God, to my voice as I plead, protect my life from fear ofthe enemy;

² hide me from the league of the wicked, from the gang of evil-doers.

³ They sharpen their tongues like a sword, aim their arrows of poisonous abuse,

⁴ shoot at the innocent from cover, shoot suddenly, with nothing to fear.

⁵ They support each other in their evil designs, they discuss how to lay their snares. 'Who wil see us?'they say,

⁶ 'or wil penetrate our secrets?' He wil do that, he who penetrates human nature to its depths, thedepths of the heart.

⁷ God has shot them with his arrow, sudden were their wounds.

⁸ He brings them down because of their tongue, and al who see them shake their heads.

⁹ Everyone wil be awestruck, proclaim what God has done, and understand why he has done it.

¹⁰ The upright wil rejoice in Yahweh, wil take refuge in him, and al the honest wil praise him.