Psalms - Chapter 64

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¹ [For the choirmaster Psalm Of David] Listen, God, to my voice as I plead, protect my life from fear of the 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 will see us?' they say,

⁶ 'or will penetrate our secrets?' He will do that, he who penetrates human nature to its depths, the depths 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 all who see them shake their heads.

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

¹⁰ The upright will rejoice in Yahweh, will take refuge in him, and all the honest will praise him.

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