Psalm 64

1Hear my voice, O God, in my [1] complaint;

Preserve my life from dread of the enemy.

2Hide me from the secret counsel of evildoers,

From the tumult of those who do iniquity,

3Who have sharpened their tongue like a sword.

They aimed bitter speech as their arrow,

4To shoot [1] from concealment at the blameless;

Suddenly they shoot at him, and do not fear.

5They [1] hold fast to themselves an evil purpose;

They [2] talk of laying snares secretly;

They say, “Who can see them?”

6They [1] devise injustices, saying,

“We are [2] ready with a well-conceived plot”;

For the [3] inward thought and the heart of a man are [4] deep.

7But God [1] will shoot at them with an arrow;

Suddenly [2] they will be wounded.

8So [1] they [2] will make him stumble;

Their own tongue is against them;

All who see them will shake the head.

9Then all men [1] will fear,

And they [2] will declare the work of God,

And [3] will consider [4] what He has done.

10The righteous man will be glad in the Lord and will take refuge in Him;

And all the upright in heart will glory.