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Psalms 64

Psalms 64:1. To the Overseer. --A Psalm of David. Hear, O God, my voice, in my meditation, From the fear of an enemy Thou keepest my life,

Psalms 64:2 Hidest me from the secret counsel of evil doers, From the tumult of workers of iniquity.

Psalms 64:3 Who sharpened as a sword their tongue, They directed their arrow--a bitter word.

Psalms 64:4 To shoot in secret places the perfect, Suddenly they shoot him, and fear not.

Psalms 64:5 They strengthen for themselves an evil thing, They recount of the hiding of snares, They have said, `Who doth look at it?'

Psalms 64:6 They search out perverse things, `We perfected a searching search,' And the inward part of man, and the heart [are] deep.

Psalms 64:7. And God doth shoot them [with] an arrow, Sudden have been their wounds,

Psalms 64:8 And they cause him to stumble, Against them [is] their own tongue, Every looker on them fleeth away.

Psalms 64:9 And all men fear, and declare the work of God, And His deed they have considered wisely.

Psalms 64:10 The righteous doth rejoice in Jehovah, And hath trusted in Him, And boast themselves do all the upright of heart!