64:1 [For the music director. A Psalm of David.]
Hear my voice, God, in my ①complaint;
Protect my life from dread of the enemy.
▷ ①Or concern
64:2 Hide me from the secret discussion of evildoers,
From the restlessness of the workers of injustice,
64:3 Who have sharpened their tongues like a sword.
They aimed bitter speech as their arrows,
64:4 To shoot ①from concealment at the innocent;
Suddenly they shoot at him, and do not fear.
▷ ①Lit in
64:5 They make firm for themselves an evil ①purpose;
They ②talk of setting snares secretly;
They say, “Who can see them?”
▷ ①Lit matter ②Lit tell of
64:6 They ①devise injustices, saying,
“We are ②ready with a well-conceived plot”;
For the ③inward thought and the heart of a person are ④deep.
▷ ①Or search out ②Lit complete ③Or inward part ④Or unsearchable
64:7 But God ①will shoot an arrow at them;
Suddenly ②they will be wounded.
▷ ①Or shot ②Or they were wounded; lit their wounds occurred
64:8 So ①they ②will make him stumble;
Their own tongue is against them;
All who see them will shake their heads.
▷ ①Or they make their tongue a stumbling for themselves ②Or made
64:9 Then all people ①will fear,
And they ②will declare the work of God,
And ③will consider ④what He has done.
▷ ①Or feared ②Or declared ③Or considered ④Lit His work
64:10 The righteous person will be glad in the LORD and take refuge in Him;
And all the upright in heart will boast.