64: 1 Prayer for Deliverance from Secret Enemies. For the Chief Musician. A Psalm of David. Hear my voice, O God, in my complaint: Preserve my life from fear of the enemy.
64: 2 Hide me from the secret counsel of evil-doers, From the ³⁶⁸tumult of the workers of iniquity;
³⁶⁸Or, throng

64: 3 Who have whet their tongue like a sword, And have aimed their arrows, even bitter words,
64: 4 That they may shoot in secret places at the perfect: Suddenly do they shoot at him, and fear not.
64: 5 They encourage themselves in an evil purpose; They commune of laying snares privily; They say, Who will see them?
64: 6 They search out iniquities; ³⁶⁹We have accomplished, say they, a diligent search: And the inward thought and the heart of every one is deep.
³⁶⁹Hb^mg reads They have accomplished, (or, hidden,)

64: 7 But God will shoot at them; With an arrow suddenly shall they be wounded.
64: 8 ³⁷⁰So they shall be made to stumble, their own tongue being against them: All that see them shall ³⁷¹wag the head.
³⁷⁰Or, So shall they, against whom their tongue was, make them to stumble:
³⁷¹Or, flee away.

64: 9 And all men shall fear; And they shall declare the work of God, And shall wisely consider of his doing.
64: 10 The righteous shall be glad in Jehovah, and shall take refuge in him; And all the upright in heart shall glory.