Psalms 64:1-8 ▼

1 For the choir director. A Psalm of David. Hear my voice, O God, in my complaint; Guard my life from dread of the enemy.

2 Hide me from the secret counsel of evildoers, From the tumult of the workers of iniquity,

3 Who have sharpened their tongue like a sword. They aimed bitter speech as their arrow,

4 To shoot from places of hiding at the blameless; Suddenly they shoot at him, and do not fear.

5 They hold fast to themselves an evil purpose; They talk of laying snares secretly; They say, “Who can see them?”

6 They searched out unrighteousness, saying, “We have completed a diligent search”; For the inward thought of a man and his heart are deep.

7 But God will shoot them with an arrow; Suddenly they will be wounded.

8 So they will cause their own tongue to turn against them; All who see them will shake their head.